Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures/videos/PDF's, Used to help in recognizing and organizing them.
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Questions tagged [thumbnails]
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What is safe to exclude for a full system backup?
I'm looking for a list which paths/files are safe to exclude for a full system/home backup.
Considering that I have a list of installed…
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Thumbnails not showing in video in Ubuntu 18.04
I have Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and I've manually installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Everything looks fine except video thumbnails.
How to solve this?
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How can I instruct Nautilus to pre-generate thumbnails?
I have a large library of PDF documents (papers, lectures, handouts) that I want to be able to quickly navigate through. For that I need thumbnails.
At the same time however, I see that the ~/.thumbnails folder is piling up with thumbs I don't…
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How do I reset the thumbnail cache?
I have a lot of images on my laptop as I work in graphics. On the same system, I also have a folder containing my family pictures.
I would like to do two things:
Empty the already cached images
and then
"blacklist" or exclude the folder holding…
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Why doesn't Nemo preview thumbnails?
I have a problem with thumbnails on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32-bit system with Cinnamon 2.0.14 DE and Nemo 2.08.
I have tried removing the ~/.thumbnails directory but it is not working for me. This is very weird because when I open an image in Eye of…
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How to stop Nautilus from creating thumbnails of specific file types?
I'm trying to stop Nautilus from creating thumbnails of PDF files. In another thread on 'Ubuntu forums' someone said to open gconf-editor and disable the PDF entry in the '/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers' directory. However the only entry in that DIR is…
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How to set the first picture of every folder as its folder icon?
If there are pictures in folder A, B, C.....Z, how do I automatically set the first picture in each of these folders as its folder icon? Is there a way like a script or something else?
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Nautilus not generating thumbnails for GIF images
No matter what I try (changing the preview options, deleting the thumbnail cache, etc.), Nautilus in Ubuntu 15.04 does not generate thumbnails for GIF image files. However, it generates a thumbnail for all other previewable file type. Can I solve…
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Why I can't see the thumbnails in Nautilus?
Problem Loading Thumb Previews:
This started to happen after upgraded Ubuntu from 12.04 to 12.10.
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Way to make video-thumbnails generate from VLC instead of Totem?
I'm suffering from problem that video-thumbnails do not appear in nautilus for some video files. I just found this bug typefinding: some mpeg files are not identified as mpeg files which seems to address the problem. I don't understand the specifics…
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Dolphin does not show thumbnails
I have changed my Unity default file manager to Dolphin.
Problem: video thumbnails don't show up anymore.
In Nautilus the thumbnails are shown correctly.
How to make Dolphin show thumbnails?
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How do I make Shotwell regenerate all the thumbnails?
For some unknown reason all thumbnails are lost in my Shotwell, instead all icons are grey. The images themselves are all okay and I can open them all in Shotwell.
There are only empty folders in .shotwell/thumbs/ so it looks like the thumbnails…
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show thumbnails in file chooser dialog
is there any way to show thumbnails in file chooser dialog in ubuntu or in any other distro ?
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Nautilus: Show image thumbnails at more than 200% size
I would like to delete some images with nautilus.
I increased the size to 200%.
My monitor has a high resolution and the image are too small for me.
I would like to increase the size even more, but it seems to be impossible.
See screenshot.
Is…
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How large can Nautilus's thumbnail cache grow?
Nautilus's thumbnail cache in ~/.thumbnails has grown to several hundred megabytes.
Do I need to be concerned about unrestricted growth of this in the long term, or is its size automatically managed somehow?
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