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If the\r
<link linkend="PreferencesThumbnails">Cache Thumbnails</link>\r
- option is selected in Preferences/General, the similarity matrix and the checksum will also be cached. This will reduce the time needed for future searches.\r
- <note>If you frequently search on similarity and your images are in a tree arrangement under a single point, initiating a one-time search on similarity from the top of the tree will generate the similarity data for all images.</note>\r
+ option is selected in Preferences/General, the similarity matrix, checksum, image size and Exif Date may also be cached. This will reduce the time needed for future searches.\r
+ <note>\r
+ If you frequently search on similarity and your images are in a tree arrangement under a single point, the\r
+ <link linkend="CreateSimFiles">Create file similarity cache</link>\r
+ from the top of the tree will generate the similarity data for all images.\r
+ </note>\r
<para>Similarity data are stored in a folder hierachy that mirrors the location of the source images. The data have the same name as the original appended by the file extension .sim.</para>\r
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The root of the hierachy is:\r