ANSEL-GENERATE-CACHE(1)

💖 ansel-generate-cache — the thumbnail glow-up page 💖

Ok so bestie, welcome to ANSEL-GENERATE-CACHE(1), the little helper that goes and fills in all of ansel's missing thumbnails while your computer is just sitting there vibing. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

ansel-generate-cache — update ansel's thumbnail cache 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ansel-generate-cache [-h, --help; --version] [-m, --max-mip <0-7>] [--core <ansel options>]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So ansel is a digital photography workflow application for Linux, Mac OS X and several other Unices — and like, it's described further in ansel(1), iykyk. 📸

ansel-generate-cache updates ansel's thumbnail cache. That's the whole gig. You can literally just start this program and it'll generate all missing thumbnails in the background when your computer is idle. No cap, it's giving "background character who does all the work." 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

All parameters are optional. If you start it with no parameters at all, ansel-generate-cache uses reasonable defaults. Ngl, that's the low-effort way to do it and honestly? Valid.

• -h, --help — gives usage information and then peaces out (terminates). 🙈
• --version — gives copyright and version information and terminates. Show-off energy but cute. 💁‍♀️
• --min-mip <0-7>, -m, --max-mip <0-7> — ansel can handle and store thumbnails with up to eight different resolution steps for each image. These parameters define which maximum resolution should be generated, and they default to a range of 0-2. There is normally no need to generate all possible resolutions here — the missing ones will be automatically generated by ansel the moment they are needed. And when it's asked to generate multiple resolutions at once, the lower-resolution images are quickly downsampled from the highest-resolution image. Literally efficiency queen. 🔥
• --min-imgid <N>, --max-imgid <N> — specifies the range of internal image IDs from the database to work on. If no range is given, ansel-generate-cache will process all images from the entire collection. The whole collection. Main character energy. 👑
• --core <ansel options> — all command line parameters following --core are passed to the ansel core and handled as standard parameters. See ansel(1) for a detailed description of the options. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

ansel(1)

💜 AUTHORS 💜

The principal developer of ansel is Johannes Hanika. The (hopefully) complete list of contributors to the project is:

• developers:
• translators:
• contributors (at least 4 commits):
• Sub-module rawspeed contributors (at least 1 commit):
• Sub-module OpenCL contributors (at least 1 commit):
• Sub-module whereami contributors (at least 1 commit):
• Sub-module LibRaw contributors (at least 1 commit):
• Sub-module doxygen-awesome-css contributors (at least 1 commit):

And all those of you that made previous releases possible 🫶✨

This man page was written by Ulrich Pegelow <ulrich.pegelow@tongareva.de> as part of the usermanual. It was turned into a man page by Tobias Ellinghaus <me@houz.org>. Iconic collab, honestly. 🤝

🎀 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🎀

Copyright (C) 2009-2017 by Authors.

ansel is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GPL v3 or (at your option) any later version. Slay, free software. 💖

Fr fr, that's the whole page — every option, every default, every contributor list, nothing skipped. 💀

And that's a wrap bestie — this page came to you courtesy of darktable 2.3, dated 2017-01-20, under the manual name ANSEL-GENERATE-CACHE(1). Mwah, bye! 💋🌷