Marginal
Thumbnails Problem
I have thousands video files on my external drive, currently on Sonoma 14.7.2, and everytime I try open folders contain thousand of these video files, the thumbnails keep reloading, is there any setting so I can keep the thumbnails of all those videos without reloading the preview thumbnail?
According to this ancient post on Stack Exchange this can happen if your external drive is not formatted as HFS+ (or presumably APFS). Is this the case for you?
Not sure if this is your issue, but macOS allows a user to disable the creation of .DS_Store files on external drives, whcih is where a folder's thumbnail images are stored.
If you want to re-enable this behavior, type the following on a terminal window: defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteUSBStores -bool FALSE
If you want to know whether the default setting has been changed or not: defaults read com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteUSBStores
Zero means .DS_Store folder creation is enabled, while one means disabled.
@elwynharazaki did @datiecher's advice help?
no it didn't, the creation of .DS_Store are already there by default.
also on another note, the creation of new thumbnails are very slow, sometimes it took 30-40 minutes.