[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Marsupilami

Maybe to put some validation in the settings dialog to get rid of this problem?

Validation of the thumbs_dir setting was written into the code after 2.2.1, because there were a number of different reported problems. Basically, the code tries to crate a test file in the specified directory.

Interestingly, I've just rechecked the validation with the example you have reported. It works properly on a Linux box where /dir1/dir2/../dir3 is not a valid file name amd where file permissions work properly. However, Windows, bless its heart, unexpectedly (for me at least) decides that /dir1/dir2/../dir3 = /dir1/dir3 and - because its file permissions are less robust - can create the test reports and so reports that everything is ok.

Originally Posted by Marsupilami

And even after clearing Thumbs space and rebuilding thumbs, there will still be remnant files in the thumbs directory.

Yes, I'm sorry about that. There were circumstances where the old files were not being tidied up properly. I hope there are now fewer in 2.2.5.