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Thunar shouldn't generate thumbnails for files it's currently copying
Status:
RESOLVED: WONTFIX
Product:
Thunar-vfs
Component:
General

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Description Erlend Davidson 2008-04-14 12:02:48 CEST
I just noticed this earlier today.  I have copying a relatively large video file from my camera to my computer, with both the source and destination directories open.

The copy took about 3 minutes, and during that time thumbnails of the destination video file kept getting regenerated as the file changed.  However as Thunar knew that it was writing that particular file I think it should have refrained fromm thumbnailing it until it was finished.

For all thumbnails, I would suggest:
* start writing file,
* at 10% run the thumbnailer on that file (my reasoning being that videos, pdf etc can be thumbnailed at 10%)
disable thumbnailer until the write operation has completed
* re-thumbnail the finished file

I've marked this as major because, even though it's not a show-stopper, it causes a fair amount of disk thrashing and wasted CPU time.
Comment 1 Erlend Davidson 2008-11-03 23:34:42 CET
Is there any progress on this?

Bennu: do you still work on Thunar, or has Stephan et al taken over now?
Comment 2 Nick Schermer editbugs 2014-12-03 09:18:51 CET
Close bug reports of archived products.

Bug #4015

Reported by:
Erlend Davidson
Reported on: 2008-04-14
Last modified on: 2014-12-03

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Assignee:
Jannis Pohlmann
CC List:
1 user

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