Since you guys are backing up the VST images, I wanted to remind folks that the “snapshot” feature for VST image thumbnail creation can consume non-trivial amounts of RAM as Cubendo loads the entire, raw image into memory before scaling it to fit in the browser:
In that post I outline a simple automator script I use to take the folder input from a Finder operation and proportionally scale all images to 480. This operation retains the original GUID-based filenames and replaces them with pre-scaled images that take up significantly less RAM. After going through and generating many different VST snapshots for thumbnail generation, the resultant files resulted in over 2gig of additional RAM being consumed just for the images, as Cubase loads these into RAM when you view them and doesn’t release them again (based on my tests).
Since you guys are providing these utilities for Windows folks, I thought it was worth a mention that you may want to whip up a PowerShell script to scale images as well for people who are unaware that they are potentially wasting valuable RAM on large source image snapshots.
