On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 15:49:01 -0500 Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> dijo:
>Before you finish you victory lap here - try to open some larg-ish >file in the file manager. > >You will notice: >a) the file is first downloaded to some temporary file then opened as >local. If you edit and save the edits - it will be in the tmp file, >not the original >b) the file will not open at all because the path to it, in the file >browser, does not represent the file path outside the file manager. > >There is no good way around mounting remote file systems through some >gui magic at this point in time. OK, I just tried it with a 2.1GB .mkv file. I dragged it from the file manager and dropped it on VLC. (I do it this way because of a bug that I think is in Xfce or the window manager - if I close VLC by clicking on the X in the upper right corner of the window, many times some piece of VLC doesn't close down, so next time I try to launch VLC it can't run.) Anyway, VLC instantly started playing the 2.1GB file, no problems. The file in question is located on my external Thunderbolt 3 enclosure populated with NVMe drives, connected to my laptop, and mounted at /media/jjj/. The file manager and VLC are on my desktop, and the file manager says the folder that it is displaying is: sftp://192.168.1.163/media/jjj/Movies/<name of the movie> The file manager is Thunar, which is what Gigolo opened when I double clicked on the folder icon that was labeled 192.168.1.163, the icon that Gigolo created after I logged in to the laptop. I also navigated around in Thunar to explore other folders on the laptop, and it was just as fast and trouble-free as when I do it with a file manager directly on the laptop. I didn't try modifying the file to see what might happen. Normally all I want to do is access the files to see them, not modify them. There is, of course, another copy of the same file on the Synology, and until now I have had to use that copy on the desktop. But the Synology is super slow on initial access; I have to sit and wait as I listen to the drives grinding and clicking. Hopefully now the Synology will only be used for 3am backups, where its glacial speed won't annoy me. _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug