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I have a directory with half a million JPEG files and it can't be opened in Nautilus. What is the simplest way to see the previews of these images?

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  • What do you want to do? – Saeed Zarinfam Sep 07 '12 at 12:22
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    select folder with shotwell and let shotwell create folder dates and such – blade19899 Sep 07 '12 at 12:26
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    Split the images into multiple directories. You aren't going to view all 500000 previews anyway. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Sep 07 '12 at 12:46
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    I just want to see what is inside the directory. Like how the pictures look like. With Nautilus I cant do that because it freezes. I tried Shotwell and it is now importing the images (without copying). It is performing very very slow though. – Slazer Sep 07 '12 at 12:50
  • You have half a million images. Its gonna take some time, when shotwell is done you can view them by using shotwell. or via nautilus – blade19899 Sep 07 '12 at 14:09
  • @blade19899 You should post that first comment as an answer, especially if it works. To the OP: Are there *many* duplicates? That's a lot of files and you might [try de-duplicating](http://askubuntu.com/q/3865/12864) first. – Tom Brossman Sep 07 '12 at 14:11

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Select folder with Shotwell, and let Shotwell create folder dates and such.

as @Tom Brosmann suggested, check if you have duplicate first. See the following page for that

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You can try installing gwenview.

sudo apt-get install gwenview.

But still I am not sure whether it can handle a million JPEG files. I would suggest you to use command-line via terminal and categorize the files and then view it.

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