Thumbnails not displaying (Solved)

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Thumbnails not displaying (Solved)

Post by 1.618 »

Apologies if this is in the wrong section...

In caja, i notice that where i used to have thumbnails for files they would show album art for music or if it was a jpg it would be a thumbnail of the picture, or pdf would be book covers and so on, but since my last install they are not showing properly, i have a generic thumbnail that looks like it is loading but never gets there, grey background with a clock on top, was wondering how i can get them to display properly, have checked through the preferences and online but can't find anything that helps, any ideas?
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killer de bug

Re: Thumbnails not displaying

Post by killer de bug »

In the preferences, there is an option to check. In one of the last tab ('previewing'), you can chose the maximal size for displaying a thumbnail.
1.618

Re: Thumbnails not displaying

Post by 1.618 »

killer de bug wrote:In the preferences, there is an option to check. In one of the last tab ('previewing'), you can chose the maximal size for displaying a thumbnail.

Thanks, have tried that and even with it set on the biggest size, all i get is a grey background with 'jpg' across it instead of the actual picture.
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Re: Thumbnails not displaying

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Hi, There are many good posts on this thumbnail topic in this forum.

Perhaps the link below will help. It is about displaying thumbnails regarding PDF files or any files...
http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=174028
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Re: Thumbnails not displaying

Post by 1.618 »

Thanks for the replies, tried that link and a few others, tried a few things and nothing seemed to make a difference but after a reboot all my thumbnails are showing correctly so something must have worked.
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