FileBot

hi,

Latest deb package from filebot website. I'm trying to determine whether this is a filebot issue or other.
I use google-drive-ocamlfuse to mount my gdrive to /media/gdrive.

Using the gui, I've noticed that for some files that filebot/google-ocamlfuse tries read the files for additional information, metadata or other??

Does filebot try to read the file for additional metadata beyond the filename?
Is there a way to disable this? I don't want to downloading 60GB video files etc.

only work around so far to avoid this ive found is with the cli.

for X in *; do
timetout 10s filebot -rename "$X";
done


thanks

You can use strace to see what it's doing.


1.
FileBot uses xattr:
viewtopic.php?t=324

If you're using a VFS then it depends on the VFS implementation how they deal with xattr calls. Reading/Writing xattr is independent of the file content.


2.
It might use MediaInfo. In that case it'll probably at least read the first view KB of the file content.


3.
I don't see how calling FileBot for each file would make a difference, compared to calling it on the folder. Many people use FileBot via network shares. If FileBot were to fully read every file it processes, somebody would have noticed things being extremely slow many years ago, so it's probably an isolated issue on your machine or with your setup.