Exclude or delete thumbnails

[Liro67]

Thanks for the great tool, love it! I was sorting 76k+ files from almost 20 years of pictures with it. If I can suggest an improvement, would be good to be able to delete all kind of thumbnails files like the windows Thumbs.db or the Apple *.ithm or *.ithmb. Thanks.

[ivandokov]

Hello @Liro67 and that's for the suggestion.
I need some clarification - by "delete all kind of thumbnails" do you mean simply not move them to the output directory?

[Liro67]

Well yes but I would even like to have a parameter to choose to simply delete them. My personal experience with sorting almost 20 years of pictures is that these files where created by a device and then backup by the software or copy function used at that time. Now I want a clear, simple and useable database where those files are completely irrelevant! 🙂
Many thanks for sharing these great tool!

[ivandokov]

To be honest I do not think this is a feature that should be build in the software or at least it is not a significat one since the same result can be accomplished by a rm command after the work is done. Also these files are there for a reason and if we do want to include this option in it should be either with an opt-in or opt-out flag.

[pabera]

Isn't this request targeting this line to be more flexible? E.g. by adding allowing the user to ignore specific files/folders through an argument? I have the same use case on my NAS where I want to ignore (but not delete!) automatically generated thumbnails. I am currently solving it this way.