2016-10-15, 18:45
@Milhouse apologies for my bothering you with this topic (Thanks as always for your help) as now realise its my QNAP NAS TS251+ that's been creating "hundreds" of @__thumb folders...all without user knowledge and understanding.
What completely threw me was I could not see these hidden folders with view hidden folders switched on in QNAP Webrowser File Station App or Windows PC accessing NAS folders over network?
Anyway using Filezilla to access and take a look at NAS and low and behold hundreds of .@__thumb
Oh well clean up time now on my NAS making sure these @__thumb "critters" are fully removed and are never created again!
I am currently reading through varied information on this topic in this QNAP forum thread on easiest way to perform the clean ideally automatically and ensure it cant happen again.
---edit ---Additionally--- Its a kodi settings option that ensured I created this problem. In Estuary I had Settings -> Media -> General "Show hidden files and directories" enabled. (Should have left this kodi option disabled!!!) With option disabled, .@__thumb items are NO more in kodi media library.
With ref to this thread post http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid2055970
What completely threw me was I could not see these hidden folders with view hidden folders switched on in QNAP Webrowser File Station App or Windows PC accessing NAS folders over network?
Anyway using Filezilla to access and take a look at NAS and low and behold hundreds of .@__thumb
Oh well clean up time now on my NAS making sure these @__thumb "critters" are fully removed and are never created again!
I am currently reading through varied information on this topic in this QNAP forum thread on easiest way to perform the clean ideally automatically and ensure it cant happen again.
---edit ---Additionally--- Its a kodi settings option that ensured I created this problem. In Estuary I had Settings -> Media -> General "Show hidden files and directories" enabled. (Should have left this kodi option disabled!!!) With option disabled, .@__thumb items are NO more in kodi media library.
With ref to this thread post http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid2055970