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Theater View/EXPLORER performance issues [Solved]
EnglishTiger:
An alternative way of displaying the filenames as they are shown in Windows Explorer is to simply display the Filename (name) tag/field in the details list.
Ashfall:
Importing ahead of time isn't a solution for my situation either. Kids, or their friends, or my friends will occasionally bring a thumb drive or hard drive and connect it, then are held in suspense for 10-20 seconds before the list of files in Explorer view is displayed. I've also tried toggle list style, but that has no effect on how long it takes for all the files to be scanned.
Would love it if "explorer" was just a dumb explorer.
HPBEME:
--- Quote from: afss_br on June 09, 2023, 06:28:53 am ---How/Where exactly is this done ? "If you really want to see filenames as they are shown in Windows Explorer, you could update the thumbnail text to point to the filename instead of the Title tag"
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I don't use Theater View all that much, so I really don't remember the complete blow-by-blow. That said, it would involve going into Options/Theater View and then the Customize Info Panel, where you would then need to modify the various templates for movies, TV show, video, and have them use/point-to the filename field.
If somebody else wants to expend the effort of explaining the exact step-by-step, I will leave that to them. Good luck.
HPBEME:
--- Quote from: Ashfall on June 09, 2023, 08:23:30 am ---Importing ahead of time isn't a solution for my situation either. Kids, or their friends, or my friends will occasionally bring a thumb drive or hard drive and connect it, then are held in suspense for 10-20 seconds before the list of files in Explorer view is displayed. I've also tried toggle list style, but that has no effect on how long it takes for all the files to be scanned.
Would love it if "explorer" was just a dumb explorer.
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I don't have much to offer by way of a solution for this. Don't use Theater View maybe? If all your video file associations are set to use MC, then just browse/launch files using Windows Explorer directly from the portable drive. That is what file associations are intended for - that is, launching files from somewhere other than directly within MC.
bogdanbz:
--- Quote from: HPBEME on June 09, 2023, 02:56:14 pm ---I don't use Theater View all that much, so I really don't remember the complete blow-by-blow. That said, it would involve going into Options/Theater View and then the Customize Info Panel, where you would then need to modify the various templates for movies, TV show, video, and have them use/point-to the filename field.
If somebody else wants to expend the effort of explaining the exact step-by-step, I will leave that to them. Good luck.
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The Theater View Explorer plugin doesn't have any kind of configuration options, and has always been like that.
This missing configuration feature of the Explorer plugin seems to go quite unnoticed. I got the same advice to "configure" it when I asked how to display the file names some time ago: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,131747.msg913345.html
And I'm not the only one that wants to see the Explorer really be just a file explorer, and not do things like retrieve cover art and metadata, as if doing an import to library (nothing gets imported anyway, it just wastes time). Another forum post in the past regarding this: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,134140.msg929157.html
You don't always want to have stuff in folders imported to the library and mess it up, you just want to safely and quickly browse those folders, and still do it while on the couch.
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