Problem: cryptomator always need time to create thumbnail after unexpected shutdown. The problem is it literally takes hours.
Background:
my laptop is old and the battery is dead. the charger have some lose connection and would shut off if moved. I don’t usually need to move it around but accident happen, no matter how careful I am.
I see cryptomator always recreate image thumbnail for image inside the vault whenever my laptop shutdown unexpectedly. There are many folder of “Cryptomator/mnt/qRJgyaVuR8sP_0”, “Cryptomator/mnt/qRJgyaVuR8sP_1”, “Cryptomator/mnt/qRJgyaVuR8sP_2”, and so on.
my throughtput is only around ~1.2Mib/s - 0.8Mib/s (I use HDD). it’s literary takes a good few hours before every image would have thumbnail.
is there a way to just save the thumbnail into the vault?
Thumbnails are created by the system, not by cryptomator.
This applies to linux as well (please correct me if Im wrong).
Based on your linux version and configuration, if you enabled the creation of thumbnails, they are stored local in a thumbnails folder. This should be ~/.cache/thumbnails.
So in your case it looks like your system is deleting these thumbnails (or even the complete cache) every time it shuts down unexpected. Because of your global system settings they are then created from scratch.
Nothing cryptomator can do about that.
I don’t know why this problem hasn’t been solved yet. At least on Windows, it would be possible, since by default, network paths generate thumbs in the folder where the media is stored. For some reason, Cryptomator’s ‘fake’ network path doesn’t generate thumbs.db locally, but I believe this could be worked around with some good programming. I’ve tried generating thumbs.db manually, but for the same reason, Windows doesn’t use it.
In practice, if you’re hiding something in your vault against a search warrant, for example, they can search the system’s thumbnail cache to see what you have inside.