Questions tagged [thumbnails]
Thumbnails are reduced versions of objects, mostly images, that are used to quickly display a small and recognizable representation of the object.
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No thumbnails for video files in Ubuntu, and getting an Apport message box whenever I navigate to a folder with video files in it
I'm using Ubuntu 13.04.
Whenever I navigate to a folder with video files in it, none of the videos show a thumbnail:
Within a few seconds after merely opening a video-file-containing folder, I get ...
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Thumbnails for MP3s are missing in explorer
I just set up Windows 10 on my PC and everything works great except one glitch.
I have a folder with many MP3s which contain a picture in the MP3-tag. On Windows 7 I used to see this picture in the ...
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How to make windows (8.1) not generate thumbnails every time I browse into a folder?
every single time I browse into a photo or video folder, it regenerates the thumbnails on every file, isn't this the whole point of caching thumbnails, so it don't happen every single time!
this is ...
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NAS: pre-generating thumbnails for multiple clients
I have a simple setup: Linux server at home with a huge drive; that drive has a photo library (hundreds of folders, hundreds of gigabytes). The drive is shared with multiple Windows and Mac clients ...
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Dropbox showing all black thumbnails for files/folders? [duplicate]
All the files/folders within my Dropbox are showing with black thumbnails, see the following screenshot:
However, all my other files/folders (not in Dropbox) are showing with no problems, i.e.
Could ...
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How can I generate thumbnail previews for FLV files on Mac?
Similar to this question, however, the answer will not work because it is suited for Windows 7.
My initial thought was to just run the video on VLC and pause the video and then just Shift+Cmd+4 and ...
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Increase Windows taskbar thumbnail/preview size
Is there a way to increase the size of the mouse-over thumbnail size for Windows 7 task-bar items?
Ie, if I have multiple file explorers open and mouse-over them it would be nice to have larger, ...
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How to change which frame is grabbed for the finder icon of a movie file for Mac OS X Finder?
Movie files show in Mac OS X Finder with an example frame from the movie. Unfortunately, it's captured from fairly early in the movie, so that different episodes of a series, or perhaps different ...
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Forcing thumbnail preview for custom file format
Related question: Explorer image thumbnail association
A CNC scripting program I use generates BMPs as thumbnails and then appends them in front of the scripts themselves. Changing the file extension ...
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ffmpeg thumbnailor with timecode in filename
i have many videofiles and i want to make one thumbnails every 20 seconds.
This is what i have now:
for %%a in ("*.*") do ffmpeg -i "%%a" -f image2 -vf fps=1/20 "index\%%~...
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How to delete empty folder with thumbs.db without disabling thumbnails
I often have problem to delete a folder that contains a thumbs.db file. Also tools like "unlocker" fail. It seems to be loccked by os for some unknown reason.
The only solution i found in the net was ...
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Can't View Thumbnails when trying to open JPEG files
In Photoshop, I put in a CD with my images, when I try to select a file, I can't view the thumbnails. Only the Photoshop icon! It showed the actual picture before, and all of a sudden it stopped! ...
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Skip parts of video while converting it to images with ffmpeg
I use this command on ffmpeg to convert a video into images:
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -q:v 1 -r 1 -f image2 frame-03d%.jpg
What I want to do is to skip the first x seconds and the last y seconds of the ...
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Disable Windows 7/8 Alt+TAB *preview* (entirely)
When Alt+TAB-ing Windows shows a list of icon previews, and, after a second or so, shows the actual window selected behind this list (a feature called Aero Peek).
I just want to see that window ...
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Disappearing program thumbnail on taskbar
I have a problem - when I hover mouse on icon of program/folder in taskbar, then the thumbnail shows, and when I hover mouse on the thumbnail, all that program's thumbnail disappears, and current ...
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Fixing broken thumbnail previews
I'm not 100% this is the right place to post this, so please let me know if so.
A while back I had to develop a custom thumbnail preview for a file format for a piece of software I was working on. I ...
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FFMPEG does not have fps filter. How to fix it?
I am trying to user fps filter to take thumbnails but it gives error:
No such filter: 'fps'
I checked the list of filters using ffmpeg -filters and fps was not there.
How to install it or fix it? ...
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Is there a way to add expandable thumbnails to an MS Word document?
I want to add pictures and screenshots of a web page to a document in Microsoft Word 2007. The problem is, when I add them to my document, they occupy a lot of space and don't leave much room for text....
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Windows 8.1 thumbnails looking destroyed
I found some thumbnails of jpegs and even folders containing them looking kind of destroyed.
What is this? A sign that my hard disk is near of its end?
I also realized that changing the size of the ...
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Windows preview multiple thumbnails abnormal behaviour can't select the task
E.g. there are multiple instances of Windows Explorer. Hovering on taskbar icon to show multiple thumbnails becomes unstable, it takes some time to move mouse to see thumbnails. However, certain ...
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Can ImageMagick make thumbnails from video?
I'm trying to extract thumbnails from video via ImageMagick. I found some samples from their official site, but it makes GIF, not PNG. I want a solid thumbnail though.
Can it create the same output ...
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No images’ thumbnails on network disk
I bought network disk to build private cloud photo-archive. Unfortunately, there are icons instead the thumbnails in the Windows Explorer. I read some hints how to check these setting via Folder ...
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How to set custom thumbnail to a file in Windows Explorer?
Is it possible to set custom (any image) thumbnail to a file (on per-file basis) in Windows File Explorer?
Suppose I would like to assign real book cover image to e-book in *.txt format.
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PDF thumbs not showing in Explorer
I'm running Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit
At some point I stopped getting thumbs for my PDF files in Windows Explorer.
I suspected that some thumb cache size may be involved as I have huge collection of ...
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Show picture of choice as folder thumbnail
I have lots of folders full of images from family events and it seems vista picks the worst one to show me whats in there. I usually cant tell from the image what the set is and some folders have ...
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How to generate thumbnail from .eps and .ai files?
How can I generate thumbnails from .eps and .ai (and .psd)? files and save them as a picture?
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Delete or reset thumbnails in Windows 7
I was looking in a folder while downloading a batch of images. About 1/4 of the images have bad thumbnails (its mostly or partially grey).
How do i reset/delete them? I tried being clever and moved ...
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How can I make the thumbnails in a window xp appear to bigger in size?
How can I make the thumbnails in a window xp to appear bigger in size?
I am a designer, it would be best to quick glances over a bigger thumbnails, as what windows xp default thumbnail size is.
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Thumbnail do not appear for office documents
The thumbnails for all Microsoft office (2010 pro) files quit working. They show the type (word, excel, etc) icon but not a thumbnail of the actual document. All other icons (pdf,etc) that show live ...
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Why there are JPEG files with weird file names in folders with videos
Windows 8.1: 64-bit.
Since couple of days I see that that in every folder containing a video[s], found a JPEG file with a weird name followed by a file name of a video in the folder. +
Is that ...
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How to enable thumbnail previews for my non-standard (mp4 avi mov mkv) video files in Windows 8?
I've installed the default VLC player to decode my .mp4 files but I'd like to enable a thumbnail view in the explorer. All I see at the moment is the traffic cone (the default icon for files ...
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Thumbnails not showing, cannot preview images, sometimes folders do not show up at all
When I try to preview images, nothing happens.
Sometimes, all/most thumbnails do not show a preview and only show up as an icon.
Sometimes when I open 'My Computer' or 'My Documents' etc. the ...
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Force Windows 7 to store thumbnails locally
I want Windows 7 to store thumbnails cache files in the same folder as the files (thumbs.db) instead of using the centralized location for all thumbnails (By default %userprofile%\AppData\Local\...
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How to reset thumbnails in windows 8
I changed the album art of an audio file inside a folder using a id3 tag editor. But the folder thumbnail still shows the old album art.
I tried to clear thumbnail cache using system cleanup, But i ...
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Mac OS X video thumbnails
Mac OS X 10.6.2
When changing the default player for '.avi'- files (from Quicktime Player to VLC), I seem to lose the 'video thumbnails' in the 'icon view' in Finder.
Only a 'static vlc cone icon' ...
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Image thumbnails not showing and cannot access file properties, how to fix it?
This is a folder full of JPGs:
Obviously that does not look right. I have given it plenty of time to load, but still I get no thumbnails.
When I right click on a file, and click properties, nothing ...
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Disable thumbnails in Windows XP?
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I regularly use Windows Explorer to browse my drives and data, and I notice little freezes and hiccups at times. It's especially noticeable when browsing local or network folders with lots ...
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How to generate thumbnails for less common video containers (mkv, ogm, mp4, flv, rmvb and mov) in windows 7 explorer? [duplicate]
So how to generate thumbnails for these containers?
I know that the install of "DivX Plus Tech Preview: MKV on Windows 7" does it for MKV. But I think that only some registry changes are ...
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Thunar is not showing any thumbnails
I was looking for the gnome-exe-thumbnailer (or similar) package in Fedora 20 (which surprinsingly wasn't in the repos) but I found tumbler-extras, which I installed and almost immediately uninstalled;...
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Thumbnail screenshot of a webpage
I am just wondering how to make a thumbnail of a webpage to display ? I've seen so many websites like stumbleupon , dzone have a thumbnail images of other websites. Is there any simple way to that ?
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All-in-One Thumbnail Viewer for Windows 7 x64?
I have Windows 7 x64 installed along with Adobe Reader X, Photoshop CS5, and Illustrator CS5. I have noticed that these dont have a thumbnail generated for them. What I need is an All-in-One Thumbnail ...
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How do I disable (video) thumbnails in Windows 7?
I'd like to turn off Windows 7 (video) thumbnails displayed in Explorer. I found this solution for Windows XP but it doesn't work for Windows 7 ("The module shmedia.dll failed to load").
Disable ...
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How to sort Windows 7 taskbar thumbnail previews?
Here is a screenshot of the list of windows I have stacked in my Windows 7 taskbar. This is just for Explorer, but similarly I have lots of stacked windows of other processes as well.
Currently these ...
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Sharing the thumbs.db file
in our situation we got network shares containing a lot of PDF's. People want to look at the thumbnails before opening them. However, the thumbs.db file is regenerated for every user looking at the ...
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Thumbnails for audio files just like in Unity?
I really like Unity audio thumbnails. Is there any way I can preview audio files like this in Windows explorer or Total Commander ?
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Show thumbnails in Mac terminal?
Some time ago I've googled nice screenshot of Mac terminal
How it can be possible? Special terminal application or special settings of ls?
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Are there any programs that can create thumbnails for Vimeo videos?
I want to create thumbnails for Vimeo videos. Are there any programs that can do this quickly?
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ffmpeg: Trying to take thumbnail fps=fps=1/60 works but not fps/fps=1/600
I am following this doc from the ffmpeg site:
This will create one thumbnail image every minute, named img001.jpg,
img002.jpg, img003.jpg, ... (%03d means that ordinal number of each
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Why does my image look sideways in thumbnail view but correct when I open it?
This is important because I will be submitting it for my visa application (rotated images disqualify you).
The image looks rotated sideways in thumbnail view on my computer, but when I double-click ...
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Is there such a concept as "dead thumbnails" in Windows?
I realised that in disk cleanup (cleanmgr.exe) there is an item "Thumbnails":
Windows keeps a copy of all of your picture, video, and document thumbnails so they can be displayed quickly when you ...
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