JPEG Saver config — More controls dialog
The “More controls” dialog contains some settings that are not likely to be changed very often.
- Maximum shape skip
- Jump to next loadable file
- Time before loading message
- Reused database lifetime
- Rescan folder frequency
- Scan disabled folders
- File cache size
- When screensaver running
- In desktop helper DB update
Maximum shape skip
By default this option will be off, and JPEG Saver will show all the images that it finds. Setting it to one of the numbers will make JPEG Saver skip over images that are the wrong shape for the screen - portrait images will be skipped on screens that are wider than they are tall, and landscape images will be skipped on screens that are taller than they are wide.
The number chosen is the maximum number of images that will be skipped when progressing through the sequence. After this many images have been skipped, the next image in the sequence is displayed, whatever its shape. Square images are shown on both landscape and portrait screens.
Skip unloadable files
This option enables the skipping of files that cannot be loaded. With it disabled, JPEG Saver will display an error message, but with it enabled JPEG Saver will attempt to load the next file. If 100 files in a row cannot be loaded, then the error message will be displayed anyway.
Load files quietly
This slider allows you to set how long JPEG Saver will spend loading and post-processing files before displaying a status message about it. The default time is five seconds. The maximum value is 600 seconds, which should mean that the message is not displayed at all - a file really should not take more than ten minutes to load.
Reuse DB
This option lets you choose how long JPEG Saver will keep using the database without checking for updated folders. Before version 5.7 JPEG Saver checked every time it ran, which should catch any file updates but should not be necessary for most users. The default value for this option is still very low at 5 minutes, but you can adjust it with values up to two days.
Rescan folders
This option lets you choose how often JPEG Saver rescans folders that haven't had any obvious updates. Normally when files are written to or removed from a folder the modification time of the folder is updated, and JPEG Saver uses this to determine when the folder needs updating. The modification time is not always correct though, so the folders are periodically rescanned anyway using the frequency chosen in this option.
Scan disabled folders
Enabling this option allows the desktop helper to scan through any folders that have been disabled, making it much more convenient to switch folders on and off in the config. This only affects the desktop helper's file scan though, the scan performed when the screensaver starts up never searches through disabled folders for changes.
File cache size
This slider sets the maximum size of the file cache that JPEG Saver uses to store recent images. Setting the cache size to 0 disables using a cache. JPEG Saver stores the images in a very simple compressed format that is very fast to load and save but uses more space than JPEG or PNG images. The latest image loaded will always be stored in the cache, even if it is greater in size than the maximum cache size set with this slider.
Note: only static images are stored in the cache, videos are always loaded from their real locations.
Enable metadata scan
These two options are both enabled by default, and allow JPEG Saver to search through your files to add their width, height and any tags to its database. These can then be used in filters to choose which files JPEG Saver displays based on their size or tags.
Metadata scan while screensaver running
This option allows JPEG Saver to load metadata from files while running the screensaver.
Metadata scan during desktop helper database update
This option allows JPEG Saver to load metadata during the desktop helper's database update.
Disabling both options does not prevent the use of metadata in filters, and metadata will still be read from each file as it is displayed. The metadata scan is a bit resource-heavy though, so if you are not going to use filters then turning it off should improve performance.