Thumbnail generation does not start on my external drive.

[kerbacho]

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It only generates the thumbnails when I open up the folders and subfolders manually.

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[linear]

ENG-1932 Thumbnail generation does not start on my external drive.

[fogodev]

Are you exploring your folders through ephemeral indexer, or you added your external drive as a location?

[kerbacho]

I added the drive as location.

[kerbacho]

I'm on mac os 14.7 btw.

[fogodev]

Hmm, the media processor job ran without issues? Because when we add a location, we dispatch a job that fetches all your files and generate thumbnails for them eagerly.

[jamiepine]

Chiming in, I have this issue with external drives on Mac with 0.4.2. The thumbnail job instantly gets canceled every time without fail only on external drives.

For me, the error is "too many files" which is a MacOS specific issue, if you run the command ulimit -n 10240 in the Terminal app this issue will miraculously go away. It is a hotfix and we will figure something out soon.

Source: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251000125?sortBy=rank

[kerbacho]

Yes, it's not the first time that it happened. On another harddrive the thumbnails just appeared after a few days or so. The indexing went fine. But even the media view stays empty if I don't open a folder.Am 10.10.2024 22:22 schrieb fogodev ***@***.***>: Hmm, the media processor job ran without issues? Because when we add a location, we dispatch a job that fetches all your files and generate thumbnails for them eagerly. —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[kerbacho]

will try it out tomorrow, thanks!Am 10.10.2024 22:41 schrieb Jamie Pine ***@***.***>: Chiming in, I have this issue with external drives on Mac with 0.4.2. The thumbnail job instantly gets canceled every time without fail only on external drives. For me, the error is "too many files" which is a MacOS specific issue, if you run the command ulimit -n 10240 in the Terminal app this issue will miraculously go away. It is a hotfix and we will figure something out soon. —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>