Missing details in "More Info" in finder information window

Marginal / QLVideo

This package allows macOS Finder to display thumbnails, static QuickLook previews, cover art and metadata for most types of video files.

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Missing details in "More Info" in finder information window #51

Closed Ribero closed 6 years ago

Ribero commented 6 years ago

Finder "Info" does not give any additional information (see red rectangle in screenshot) if the file is stored on a network volume (see blue rectangle in screenshot).

No issues for files stored on a local drive.

My configuration : macOS High Sierra 10.13.2, Synology NAS (smb share), QLVideo 1.90

Marginal commented 6 years ago

You need to have Spotlight indexing enabled for Finder to obtain and display this info. You can check the status of the indexing by typing in the terminal app: mdutil -sv /Volumes/Films And enable indexing if disabled with: mdutil -i on /Volumes/Films

If your server supports Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) or Netatalk you should use this in preference to SMB for Mac clients.

Ribero commented 6 years ago

Confirmed. It works (in SMB in my context).

Additional information : For people using a Synology NAS to store Videos, you must disable "Universal Search" on the NAS, eject the shared volume on the Mac, mount it again and then use mdutil -i on /Volumes/Folder_Name on the Mac to make it work. Universal Search is supposed to be compatible with Spotlight but...