crashes when it tries to preview a file (pdf in my case) about superfile

[Joel-N99]

No problem!
Even if it was a text file, I don't think it should try to read/show the contents of it since the plugin was disabled.

So Do we close this issue now or should I wait for the fix?

[yorukot]

Hey thanks for the report.

Did you enable the metadata plugin?
If so did you install the exiftool?

[Joel-N99]

I did install the exiftool alternative for fedora and enabled the metadata option in the config.toml. despite that it has crashed. Also like I mentioned default_open_file_preview = false is not working for some reason unless I am completely misunderstanding what it actually does. Shouldn't it completely disable all file previews?
Great software btw. Absolutely love the overall look of it! I have been using midnight commander for a while but I wanted something that looks modern and has simpler keybindings. Superfile does all that. I'm looking forward to making this my primary tool as soon as this issue gets fixed! Cheers!!

[yorukot]

File preview is the pane that controls code preview and image preview. And according to the error message, it seems that it is due to a metadata problem. (Or do you mean that the file preview panel will still be enabled by default?)
Can you try turning off the metadata plugin?

Thanks for the compliment :)

[Joel-N99]

disabled the metadata plugin. its not crashing but it seems like one particular pdf file in my Documents directory is messing up the UI. its the very first pdf document after a list of directories. the rest of the pdfs below it is not causing any issue.

[yorukot]

Would you like to take a screenshot?

[Joel-N99]

Sure. what you see in this picture happened as soon as the ">" marker/selector lands on the first pdf file. if i press the down arrow button again, it becomes normal. again if I press the up arrow to go to the same file, it happens again. Its not crashing but just getting messed up.

[yorukot]

This is weird, it looks like it treats the pdf as a text file.

update:
I just found a test pdf file on the Internet, and after testing it, I did get the same error!

Thanks for reporting :)

[yorukot]

please wait for the fix :)

[yorukot]

So i think i fixed it, but basically i just let file preview wouldn't render pdf file.
If you have any issue feel free to reopen

[Joel-N99]

Ok. I'll check it out 👌