An update just in case someone happens to have the same problem sometime: I
found out that the cause of these hangs was Sophos Anti-virus.
Navigating into a folder with many pdfs causes quicksilver to request info
from the Spotlight index (Rob pointed out that this was new behavior since
version 70) and this apparently triggers Sophos to scan the files (if
real-time protection is enabled). At least that's the only reasonable
explanation, since I found out that everything is snappy if I turn the
anti-virus off.
On Monday, October 29, 2012 7:53:33 PM UTC-2, koro wrote:
>
> Nope.
>
> But I don't think the thumbnail data is saved there only. I did find
> that folder (in fact two different instances of it) and removed it, but
> after testing again with quicksilver (and even navigating to the folder
> with finder in thumbnail view mode) the folder (or equivalent) did not
> appear: "sudo find /private/var/folders|grep thumb" returns nothing.
>
> After doing that (and also deleting QS caches) the QS hang still doesn't
> happen. Whaaaat?
>
> On 10/29/12 4:48 PM, Henning Jungkurth wrote:
> > If this delay is caused by creating Quicklook previews, then the
> > relevant caches a located somewhere else:
> >
> /private/var/folders/{some-short-string}/{some-longer-string}/com.apple.QuickLook.thumbnailcache/
>
>
> >
> > try deleting the file in there and check if the delay comes back.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 7:30 PM, koro wrote:
> >> Just an update: It seems that whenever I restart the system, I get the
> >> temporary hang (for about 20 sec) when entering a folder full of pdf's
> with
> >> QS. But after that, even if I restart QS, and even if I delete the QS
> caches
> >> (~/Library/Caches/Quicksilver/ and ~/Library/Caches/com.
> >> blacktree.Quicksilver/), it loads the same folder instantly. How on
> earth is
> >> that possible? If this is not caused by something being cached to those
> >> files, then what??
> >>
> >> On Monday, October 15, 2012 4:41:08 PM UTC-3, koro wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 10/15/12 3:15 PM, Rob McBroom wrote:
> >>>> Have you tried it in B69 to confirm for sure that it�s a new
> problem?
> >>>> It�s available from
> >>>> https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/downloads
> >>>
> >>> I've tried and it and I don't get any delay at all (less than half a
> >>> second).
> >>>
> >>> I deleted the caches before trying (i.e.
> >>> ~/Library/Caches/Quicksilver/
> >>> ~/Library/Caches/com.blacktree.Quicksilver/
> >>> )
> >>>
> >>> But now it's getting hard to reproduce the problem. Even if i delete
> the
> >>> caches, both B69 and B70 are loading the folders with many files
> inside
> >>> like a breeze (which makes me think that stuff is being cached
> somewhere
> >>> else?). I'm puzzled.
> >>>
> >>> OTOH, while trying with different folders containing many files, I got
> a
> >>> different (maybe related?) problem. I tried to navigate into a folder
> >>> with 189 files (jpgs and a few avis copied from a digital camera, of a
> >>> total size of 1.34 GB) and I got a brief beachball and then a crash (i
> >>> sent a crash report). The second time (after starting QS again) it
> >>> opened the same folder quickly and showing the thumbnails properly.
> >>> Maybe this was random; I tried another folder with 900 pictures
> >>> (almost 3GB) and no problem, took about 4-5 seconds to open.
> >>>
> >>> I'll keep trying to reproduce the problem.
> >>>
> >>>>> BTW something that may be useful to know is that after the first
> >>>>> long delay before moving into the folder, if I try to access the
> >>>>> folder again after a while it works with no delay (so whatever
> >>>>> causes the delay seems to be something that is being cached).
> >>>>
> >>>> Yes, it should cache that type of thing for a while.
> >>>>
> >>>>> Could anyone try and see if they can replicate my problem?
> >>>>
> >>>> I don�t have a folder with 400 PDFs. :-) The closest thing is
> >>>> probably a folder with 176 music videos, but I see no delay
> >>>> whatsoever going into that. In any case, I�m on an SSD, so I
> don�t
> >>>> think I�d be able to reproduce the delay (if it�s disk-related).
> >>>> Hopefully someone else can track it down.
> >>>>
> >>>
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