Maximum File size for quicklook

[pehrlich]

For example, I'll have an SQL dump file, and when arrow-keying through a folder, it will hang-up giving me the beachball until the entire file is able to be quicklooked. It would be great if this extension ignored files over a few kb.

[Marza]

Or has a limit on how much to load. Could still be useful to see the first 50 lines of a large file instead of not seeing it at all. Limit would ofc be in size not rows as the first row could be the entire file of 50GB.

Would that be a ok solution @pehrlich ?

[uchuugaka]

Lines means nothing, that could only be based on newline characters. Focus on file size. If it is a text file that is super slow to load in QuickLook, it likely will be slow in most text editors as well.

[pehrlich]

Sounds great to me.

[Marza]

@uchuugaka sorry for mentioning lines at all.

Technically it would ofc be solved by just reading some amount of data, whatever it is and then display that.
The important thing for me is that I can see some content of the file which is possible atleast for text files to read some of the data and show that instead of reading the entire file. For some other file types that might not be possible and in that case we need to have that threshold and all filesizes above that are ignored.

[llamafilm]

I agree, it would be a major help to use a maximum file size, perhaps 100KB or so. This extension causes the Finder to slow to a crawl when browsing around large non-text files.

[tsdorsey]

Released with 1.4.3