No complete local caching but incremental loading❓

[DummerJunge]

Hello, this apps really works great the way it is, thank you.

May it be possible to not load the complete tree, talkin and quite large libraries:

1. get only a list of top level directories, cache it
2. walk in it by directory, until you have list of at max n files
3. caching those
4. displaying those randomly
5. get the list again, but 2 * n files
6. excluding the shown ones
7. randomize and limit to n files
8. goto 4.

If something breaks keep both parts and startover.

[micw]

I do understand the "what", but not the "why". What is the purpose of this feature?

[DummerJunge]

Our photo library is to large to fit on any device we own. Even if I start in an dedicated subfolder, open photo frame needs some minutes to load all folders and enumerate the files. Starting in the root it get's stuck while loading. Syncing all files to the device is really not possible. So some incremental loading could be a solution.

Currently I generate an random excerpt with a script, that works, so see this a wish.

[micw]

Got it. I need to think about it. The app would need to actively rotate the images, otherwise some are never shown.
Maybe an "always online, caching only" mode would do it, so that only a bunch of random images (across all folders) is fetched and shown and rotated over time...

[DummerJunge]

"always online, caching only"
Sorry, I assumed this silently.