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Is there any upper limit on the number of images?

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Is there any upper limit on the number of images (from a folder) that variety can handle?
When selecting my images folder, the bottom bar (scrollable bar with images from selected source) do not show all the images in that folder (I do have huge no of images).

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Peter Levi (peterlevi) said : 		#1

No, Variety can handle very big folders and folder hierarchies, however the thumbnail bar at the bottom is limited to display only several hundred images of those (actually 100 currently) at one and the same time. Making it support an unlimited number of images would require much more complex logic there (currently it simply creates one big scroll window with those thumbnails, so we cannot have too many shown because of RAM, CPU and video memory usage concerns). Besides showing more than 200-300 images to the user at the same time is simply impractical - 99% of the users would never want to scroll and see each one of them.

On the other hand the thumbnail bar shows a (somewhat) random selection of images every time you select the same source, so even though it shows only 100 at a time, these are just some random 100 out of all the images in the folder (actually this also has some limits for optimization purposes, but much higher). The randomness is not mathematically strict - it depends on the folder structure and we try to get as random as possible without sacrificing speed.

The main logic for rotating images is not limited and can handle folder hierarchies with thousands of images inside. The randomness is not mathematically strict in this case either.

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Justin (justin-manj) said : 		#2

Thank you. Initially I thought that variety only can handle a limited number of images. But next time when I opened it, I got a diff set of images (a small text saying 'random set of images' above or at the end of the thumbnail bar would be more awesome). So I almost assumed your answer. Anyways awesome work, keep it up.