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Add thumbnail support
Basic Info
This is a feature request.
I'm using Android in version: 7.1.1 (Pixel)
I'm running Cryptomator in version: 0.3.1
Description
Please show thumbnails as in the Native Dropbox Android App. Scrolling through hundreds of files named IMG_20160604_165251.jpg is very inconvenient.
Thank you for your feature request!
Additional info: It's similar to the iOS app (https://github.com/cryptomator/cryptomator-ios/issues/73) and comes with the same challenges.
Perhaps you could do something similar to Windows. When jpg/png/gif files are added to the Vault, the Cryptomator app creates (or updates) a hidden "thumbs.db" file, which then gets sync'd to dropbox. Then when users open a vault on android (or iOS), Cryptomator automatically downloads, decrypts "thumbs.db", to display thumbnails. It would be far less bandwidth and CPU intensive than generating the thumbnails on the fly.
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Tobias Hagemann [email protected] wrote:
Thank you for your feature request!
Additional info: It's similar to the iOS app (cryptomator/cryptomator-ios# 73 https://github.com/cryptomator/cryptomator-ios/issues/73) and comes with the same challenges.
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@ghost Yes, thats something we already discussed internally. Problems with this approach are that thumbnails for existing images would not be available, but this could be acceptable. An alternative could be to use the cache implemented in #48, but of course this would only work for some image files. We will see what we will do in the end.
In view of the fact that the app costs 10 Euros and was purchased more than 10000 times, it is incomprehensible from the customer's point of view that the implementation of such a useful feature has still not taken place after 2 years ..
This software and app is excellent in all areas except for the lack of thumbnails for images and videos on Android -- this is a serious lacking feature considering the infeasibility of being able to search through things like entire camera rolls by systematic filenames alone.
Hope can add this feature frist.This function has been delayed for too long.
I think this is the only feature holding me back from encrypting all my photo and video uploads. Would be great to have.
Yes, Please bring this feature, it's really really important! How can you expect users to search through all of their image files one-by-one. Without thumbnails it becomes really hard and very time-consuming. I also keep image files encrypted in Cryptomator locally. So please bring this feature to locally saved files as well.
Just wanted to add my support for this very important feature. I have thousands of photos in some folders and it's near-impossible to find a specific one that I may be looking for.
Doesn't Cryptomator need to fully download all files before being able to show thumbnails? This probably takes ages given that phones take 5-10MP photos. Technically, would it be possible to download a compressed/rescaled version of photos? A 9 MB photo results in a ~400KB (1366x768 pixels) or ~700KB (1920x1080 pixels) file. Even on a tablet, 1920x1080 pixel photos still look pretty clear. This will heavily increase download/decrypt speed. So to get thumbnails work, I would welcome the ability to download/cache certain (sub-)folders.
Wont it be possible to also keep thumbnails of images encrypted in the cache directory of encrypted storage and the cryptomator app configured to automatically decrypt the encrypted cache as it lists the files. Ideally, these thumbs would be a fraction of image, <100Kb with some whatsapp picture algo that retains most detail with minimum size. It will take few more moment to load all thumbnails as the whole directory is listed. And when user clicks on a file, full image is downloaded.
So a cache directory, whatsapp like algo for image thumbnail retaining max data in small size and app to auto load all thumbs or of coreesponding directory when its visited
I'd also like to see this feature very much. I just bought the app and the lack of this feature was obvious instantly.
I'm not sure whether this is relevant for someone but IMHO rcx (F-Droid) is able to show thumbnails. It's based on rclone, though. Thus this is only a solution if Cryptomator interoperability is not necessary for you.
I'm not sure whether this is relevant for someone but IMHO rcx (F-Droid) is able to show thumbnails. It's based on rclone, though. Thus this is only a solution if Cryptomator interoperability is not necessary for you.
Now, I hate myself for subscription of cryptomator. It's practically useless for photos. rcx just works!
This is deal breaker for me. I am surprised this feature couldn't be implemented in 4 years!
There has been no update from developers. Seems like they are not interested. rcx is a great alternative which does more than cryptomator and is free.
https://github.com/cryptomator/cryptomator-ios/issues/73#issuecomment-779101411 looks promising though
cryptomator/cryptomator-ios#73 (comment) looks promising though
It does for iOS. Sad Android Users here..
This is the only missing feature which is holding me back. When will it finally be implemented?
Not having thumbnails for pics and videos (at the very least pics) seems to be a fairly big issue for a number of folks including myself. I use pCloud and they also do not offer thumbnail previews for their encrypted volumes. So many people are simply not encrypting their pics and videos uploaded to pCloud or they are (using pCloud's native encryption or Cryptomater) and dealing with the inconvenience of not being able to preview anything.
Maybe Cryptomator could do a fund-raising campaign to get this feature implemented? I'd be happy to contribute some dollars towards such a feature.
I think they are absolutely not interested to integrate or to oder the thumbnail feature.
Many folks asked about it.
it'd be really nice. currently using droid fs (gocryptfs) because it has this feature.
I add myself to the list of those who would like thumbnails in the Android app :)
