Re: Suggestion for file type detection approach

[Stuart Gilbert <stu better domain name>]

A slightly different approach would be to allow people to specify 
directories in which they wish to rely on file suffixes and directories 
in which they wish to utilise content based guessing.
In the majority of cases, in my experience, the directories that take 20 
years to load are audio, video, and image directories.
If a person is able to specify that each file's suffix in, or below, a 
certain directory should be trusted rather than opening the file and 
checking, then that would be nice.
The default could be content-scanning with an option to disable it in 
certain user-specified directories.

In /home/stuart/mp3 I only put MP3s, so I would just say "Use file 
suffix for file-type determination in all directories below 
/home/stuart/mp3" and then it's all sorted, much faster loading times 
for those directories, and only wrong if I do something stupid myself.

The above would be useful in directories where the user is in control of 
the contents, not, for example, a p2p download directory.

I hope the above idea is considered, and perhaps even useful.

Stuart Gilbert.