Comment by kstrauser
17 hours ago
Agreed. Where else would you put that stuff? It’s gotta go somewhere, and this is the least surprising place IMO. Anywhere else would have to be a parallel store that follows filesystem mounts and unmounts, renaming directories, etc so that it alway perfectly mirrors the thing it’s configuring.
> Where else would you put that stuff?
A "Centralized thumbnail cache" in the user profile folder, where it's been for a long while.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_thumbnail_cache
> so that it alway perfectly mirrors
Who cares? It's a cache.
That windows takes an approach does not mean it’s a good idea.
And what about things like folder settings, such as whether to display is as a list or as icons, or how to sort it, etc? That’s more important than a thumbnail cache.