How do I stop shotcut from caching raw footage

[Elusien]

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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…