Preview is slowing down the Everything for large archive files

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laxarus
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Preview is slowing down the Everything for large archive files

Post by laxarus »

Just as the title says, if you have a large archive file containing some images, when selecting this file, Everything stops responding. Possibly because Everything is trying to unzip and generate a thumbnail preview for this file.

To reproduce:
1- Install CBX Shell or Darkthumbs
https://github.com/T800G/CBXShell
https://github.com/fire-eggs/DarkThumbs

2- Enable previews for zip files
3- create a large zip file consisting of images
4- Copy this zip file to a network storage with slow connection to make this more noticeable
5- Enable previews on Everything (View/Preview)
6- Navigate the selection to this file on everything
7- Everything will stop responding until it completes the thumbnail generation

Is it possible to forcibly interrupt this operation when selection changes?At least, it should not freeze everything in Everything.
therube
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Re: Preview is slowing down the Everything for large archive files

Post by therube »

Does similar happen if you do this with Windows Explorer?
laxarus
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Re: Preview is slowing down the Everything for large archive files

Post by laxarus »

No, it does not happen. At least, the windows explorer responds and you can select another file without problem.
laxarus
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Re: Preview is slowing down the Everything for large archive files

Post by laxarus »

bumping this
void
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Re: Preview is slowing down the Everything for large archive files

Post by void »

It will be fixed in the next alpha update.
I'll make another post once this is ready for testing.

Thank you for the issue report.
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