If I have the viewing panel open, and click on a large file in the file window (for example, an outlook .pst, but other large files as well), all of dopus can be temporarily hung while the view panel tries to read that file. Is there a way to interrupt that view attempt? Even clicking on the x to close the view panel seems to wait just as long. If there isn't, may I suggest that for the future. Thanks.
It depends a bit on the viewer. The Office preview handlers provide no way to cancel opening a file once it has started, so not for pst files at least.
In the worst case, another window can be opened while the first one is busy. But if files are taking that long to open, there may be something else wrong (e.g. antivirus scanners doing excessive calculations to scan office documents is a possibility).
Appreciate the fantastically quick response. Support for dopus is fantastic.
I've run across this a number of times; prompted this time by clicking on a 2gb .pst which I didn't really want to view but had the view panel open previously, but in the past for example by having the viewer pane open and previously set as "text" or hex and either clicking on a large video or even just deleting the file above it so that the highlight moved onto the large file; the viewer window seems to insist on reading in the whole file before it relinquishes any control. One other similar occasion is having the view pane open and clicking on a corrupt file (cross-linked or whatever). I just wonder if the viewers could be set to periodically poll for a keystroke, like esc or a mouseclick on a different file, so there isn't a 1-3 minute delay while it's still munching on a transiently viewed file.
There is a setting to limit viewing of items in the viewer pane which do not exceed a specific file size. Maybe that helps a bit?
Only for text files.