Everything crashing when viewing some thumbnails
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Everything crashing when viewing some thumbnails
Some video files seem to cause Everything to crash when searched. It's not every file, but if a problem file turns up in the search, it crashes the entire program. There any solution for this? I am running the latest version.
Re: Everything crashing when viewing some thumbnails
Some shell extensions will crash when working with long paths, please try enforcing shell max path:
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
- In Everything, type in the following search and press ENTER:
/shell_max_path=1 - If successful, you should see shell_max_path=1 in the status bar for a few seconds.
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
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Re: Everything crashing when viewing some thumbnails
Thank you, I tried both solutions above, and when trying ShellExView (having no idea what I was doing), I noticed my Media Preview thumbnail handler I installed years ago. Disabling it stopped the crashing (so it was the main problem here), but also stopped the thumbnail previews I wanted.void wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 3:53 am Some shell extensions will crash when working with long paths, please try enforcing shell max path:Please try ShellExView to disable any thumbnail handlers:
- In Everything, type in the following search and press ENTER:
/shell_max_path=1- If successful, you should see shell_max_path=1 in the status bar for a few seconds.
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
So I've installed Icaros to handle that instead, and that seems to be able to generate thumbnails without crashing. And it seems to work a lot faster than Media Preview did. Good fix all around.
Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction there.