GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 341792
Deactivating thumbnails on removable media
Last modified: 2012-10-26 22:17:29 UTC
As removable media can be much slower than hard disks, especially when it concerns access time, it is sometimes annoying to have thumbnails enabled. However, you still want thumbnails on the hard disk. It would be nice to be able to configure, just like for remote mounts, whether to enable thumbnailing for removable media. As some will want thumbnails on removable media and not on remote mounts, and others will want the opposite, it would be even better to have separate configuration parameters for both kinds of mounts. I'm not sure how to do it without cluttering the UI of the preferences box. Maybe some parameters could be merged.
*** Bug 353474 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Perhaps, nautilus category (it has some thumbnails settings stuff now) suits better for this enhancement proposal than the gnome-volume-manager category.
there is a similar request on https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/350150
I second this feature request, in my case I have video files that on local disk have thumbnail but when I copy it to a removable hard disk, nautilus hangs when generating the thumbnail and I have to press STOP, but even after that the file doesn't show up in nautilus view (I can see it with ls command), so in this case I'd want to disable thumbnail creation for removable device.
Users will want thumbnails for removable devices that are fast enough to handle it. I like the suggestion in the linked launchpad bug - of blacklisting or autodetecting slow devices - it is better than adding another preference. I'm going to mark this as won't fix, but I've created a new bug for the suggestion from launchpad: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619962 We have a number of other bug reports that would help with this issue, btw: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105507 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524363
Allan's comment makes sense; there's still a number of bugs that make the experience with thumbnailing files on removable devices not perfect (bug 322828 is another one), but I don't think another preference is the best way to address the actual issue. Actually closing as won't fix.