How do I stop shotcut from caching raw footage

[Sumukha_G]

So I have a use case where I constantly update files in my playlist i.e. images and text, however since Shotcut by default stores a cache of these files, my updates are not shown in the video editor. How do I make the raw files editable and thus make it such that changes that I do to my images appears on the timeline? (sorry for my bad English)

[Elusien]

See here:

Is there a way to refresh the thumbnails in the timeline after replacing original files?

Since you mentioned SQLite, I got curious and opened the database file, too. As you said, there is a thumbnails table in the database which has a blob (Binary Large OBject) field called “image”, which contains the thumbnail image itself in PNG format. There are no references to external files on the filesystem. It is self-contained. If you open the database with “DB Browser for SQLite”, you can even view the image contained in the blob field. In light of this, the proper way to clear the Sh…

[shotcut]

You can right click a playlist item and choose Update Thumbnails, but for the editor to read your content changes you need to reopen the project.