works great, thanks

awesome. i like the minimize button. i think this does pretty much what i wanted. ;)

good work so far.
It does not need to generate a preview, however I don’t really care about that.
It seems to have problems handling more than a few hundred and I have thousands of items.
Very often it doesn’t get the first image. When I run a search manually I find a different, and correct, image, even after multiple tries. The file it’s finding is not the first result.
This may relate to another problem. When I enter a list of similar items it grabs the same image for all of them. Example, I search for “Robin #1” and “Robin #2” and Robin #{3, 4, … n} it grabs the same picture for all of them. Yet manually I get a different picture for each. (in this example they are all pics of the bird which is not near the first result) I realize this may be part of the encoding issue.
Also, some of the items may not be acceptable as file names, using characters that cannot be used in file names. I suppose we’ll just have to skip these for now.