I was trying to analyze my phone’s storage through Filelight, but it just gets frozen after I select the phone’s folder. I didn’t find anything in Bugzilla regarding this problem.
Is the protocol supported at all in the app?

  • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolOP
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    6 months ago

    Oh, I didn’t know that! It would kinda makes sense now that you say that, but I’m not too sure about this, the system resources taken by the app seem like they don’t change at all when I start the scan and it’s impossible to abort it (actually, I can’t do anything, not even close the window, only terminating the app works).
    If this is an actual issue I should probably report it, maybe there’s more tests I can run?


    Otherwise, do you know if there are similar apps (either GUI or CLI) that handle this better? Better in the sense that maybe it’s still really slow, but, well, not freezing at least lol.
    Or if I just have to find something to use on Android directly, like SD Maid

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      6 months ago

      I don’t think you can fix that, it’s how MTP was designed.

      Something on-device would have direct access to the filesystem, or at least the abstraction wouldn’t be as slow as MTP.

      Something like disky could do?

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        6 months ago

        Yeah, I guess there’s nothing to be done there.
        Thanks for the app suggestion, I’ve never seen it before, it looks really promising!

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      6 months ago

      Resource usage is expected to stay minimal as there will be no multithreating possible, if I understood the comment correctly.

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        6 months ago

        Yes, i got that, but isn’t it still abnormal behavior not to respond to user input while performing the operation?

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          6 months ago

          Yes it is, I dont know the technical details but KDE tends to freeze a lot. I dont know if it is impossible? Why cant apps just have a UI that always works, and the process may freeze doesnt matter?