On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:22:18 +0000, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 27 January 2011 09:01, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I have over a thousand pdf files, and I have noticed that every time > > I open one of the sub-folders containing them, the file manager > > starts whooshing around trying to collect tiny icon-sized copies of > > the front pages of every pdf in the sub-folder and display them next > > to the file details in the file list. There is a simple preferences > > box which allows the usual modifications of what gets displayed in a > > file list, but I can't see how to deactivate this particular > > feature. Does anyone know a way? > > In Nautilus (the file manager) select Edit > Preferences then on the > the Preview tab there is a Show thumbnails option which I think is > what you want. > Colin
Ha, that was it, I had missed it. Now I just get a column full of little red adobe acrobat icons, which is not so nice to look at but removes the delay -- which, in answer to the other replies, I emphasise is really quite considerable when the folder contains hundreds of pdfs; it takes maybe half a minute to find them all, and while it is collecting them, the slider for the panel slithers up and down, making it difficult to navigate to whatever file one wants. When opening a sub-folder located on an external hard drive, the process of collecting the thumbnails is slower still. I dare say there are other file formats which also seek to generate thumbnails by default, but it so happens that in my case it is pdfs. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
