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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Unknown icon on Windows 11 thumbnails
I don't know how it happened, but now on my Windows 11, I see strange thumbnail icons on files in my C:\Users folder and all subfolders inside. I don't see that on other partitions/drives or locations....
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How can Windows load .heic thumbnails faster?
I have a bunch of .heic photos from my iphone on my Windows 11 desktop. Unfortunately, the Windows File Explorer loads the .heic thumbnails terribly slow. How can I improve this?
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Thumbnail preview for HLS using ffmpeg
I have a question about converting an mp4 file to HLS. I would also like to include the first frame of each ts chunk as a thumbnail in the m3u8 file. Is it possible to accomplish this using a single ...
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Only PNG thumbnails are not shown on Windows 10, unless the defail app is Paint.NET
On my ASUS laptop with Windows 10 (UX425J) I have a problem very similar to what is described in Thumbnails (only .png) and some icons on taskbar stop showing (Windows 10) and Can't see PNG previews ...
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How to view HDR video thumbnails in Windows without dull colors?
Is there any way to generate brighter thumbnails for HDR videos in windows? Currently I only get the washed out ones. The thumbnails themselves need not be actual HDR, just reqular bright ones. I ...
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Folder is not showing the most recent thumbnails of the files
A few days ago I noticed that folder's preview is not being updated with the newest thumbnails of files that are created there.
Is there a reason why it seems to be so random? And is there a way how ...
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Can you batch generate thumbnails with tumbler?
I was wondering if there is any way to generate thumbnails from all files (image and video media) in a folder with (preferably) the command line or anything else really. I use xfce4 and tumbler. ...
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Windows 10 won't automatically generate thumbnails for .CR2 RAW files but will generate for CR3 as normal
My Windows 10 machine has stopped generating thumbnails of Canon RAW CR2 files but will generate CR3 thumbnails as would be expected behaviour. I am able to generate them using a thumbnail generating ...
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Did I accidentally delete all my thumbnails and entire desktop?
This is a bit different from my usual posts. I may have messed up badly. I was having a problem where my thumbnails for photos (jpg, png, etc., file type didn't matter), weren't showing up. Seemed ...
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After changing aspect ratio of mp4 file, thumbnail in dolphin file manager still has incorrect aspect ratio
I use the command:
for i in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -c copy -aspect 16:9 "${i%.*}.mp4"; done
It creates a new file with the correct aspect ratio, but the new thumbnail of the new ...
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Broken thumbnails of .cur (cursor) files in Windows
I am on Windows 7 x64 with Irfan Viewer installed. Most of the .cur files in C:\Windows\Cursors have icons of random things (programs, link files, even my .ico/.cur stash). When I go to the Properties ...
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Thumbnails (only .png) and some icons on taskbar stop showing (Windows 10)
Thumbnails of .png files and some icons on taskbar (Calculator, Settings, Photo Viewer etc) stopped appearing (but with .jpg thumbnails everething is fine)
I suspect that the reason is my messing with ...
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Is there a way to decouple thumbnailer from open-with in Windows Explorer?
I want to use Okular (from the Windows store) to open PDFs, but Acrobat or Edge or ... whatever to generate the "Large icons" and "Extra large icons" thumbnails in Windows Explorer....
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Misassociation with picture thumbcache icons
On rare occasion when I am copying new pictures (jpg) to an existing folder where the file has a name that matched an old deleted file then the icon displayed in Windows File explorer is that of the ...
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Windows 10 "Last Accessed" Metadata does not update when I open the file, and says that it was last accessed 30 minutes ago (which I did not)
Windows 10's "Last Accessed" metadata property is very weird. I'd like to just disable it from changing on all the files on my computer completely for archival purposes, and I searched far ...
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Start menu not showing icons for programs in C:\Program Files, but showing icons for other drives and C:\Program Files (x86)
Using the start menu to search for applications and programs installed in C:\Program Files shows the entry in the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs but its icon is missing. This ...
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How to fix (regenerate) thumbnails for mp4 files in Windows 10 (recorded by Pixel 3)
My Google Pixel 3 phone saves videos as mp4 files that have no thumbnails in Windows Explorer.
(This screenshot shows files on my PC that I'd moved via USB from the Pixel 3.)
Here is an example of an ...
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Windows 10 - Thumbnail of animated webp + ability to view in windows photo viewer?
I did many things to be able to see the thumbnails of webp files in windows explorer and that I could see them in windows photo viewer.
E.g. WebpCodecSetup installed, K-Lite codec pack full installed, ...
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Windows 11 file explorer no longer shows thumbnails for PNG images
Thumbnails for .jpg, .webp, .mp4, and other file formats seem to work just fine, it's only .png files that don't work.
Things I've tried:
Removing my thumbnail cache using the disk cleanup utility
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FFmpeg not adding thumbnail to last fragment
I'm using this command to h265 encode a live video from a Blackmagic DeckLink card:
ffmpeg \
-format_code 4k29 -f decklink -i "DeckLink 8K Pro (1)" \
-c:v hevc_nvenc \
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Are the rules for clearing Thunar's thumbnail cache set somewhere that the user can change?
I have recently discovered that my ~/.cache/thumbnails/normal/ folder contains some very old thumbnails. I was under the impression that these were automatically deleted with reasonable frequency. The ...
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Windows video thumbnails have disappeared after running disk cleanup
I ran the Disk Cleanup utility that comes with Windows to clean temporary files and the thumbnail cache. Now all of my video files no longer show thumbnail previews and look like in the screenshot ...
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How to sort thumbnails from a collection other low size photos?
I have a collection of low sized photos (low file size, say around 50KB), consisting of thumbnail images of my camera photos, whatsapp forwarded images and other images downloaded from internet. The ...
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Windows 10 taskbar application thumbnail on hover disappeared
Until a few days ago, whenever I would hover over an application I had open on the taskbar, it would give me a small thumbnail of the application as it was. So if I was hovering over VLC as it was ...
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How to delete obsolete thumbnails in Windows 10's Start menu?
If Windows 10's Start menu shows an obsolete thumbnail (i.e. you click it and see empty collections/albums/people/folders), why does it show thumbnails to images that were probably deleted a long time ...
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Any way to keep Windows 7 (Ultimate) from deleting the thumbnail cache?
First order of business: Drag OP long and hard for using an OS that's way past EOL. Now that we got that out of the way...
It seems that Windows 7 is deleting my thumbnail cache at some arbitrary ...
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Thumbnails keep disappearing from Windows Media Player
Got a strange issue with Windows Media Player on one of my PCs. When you first load it up, the thumbnails load fine but as soon as you start navigating around all album art and video thumbnails vanish....
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Thumbnail disappears when transcoding AVI to MP4 with ffmpeg
When I try to convert an very old avi to a mp4 with ffmpeg, the thumbnail disappears.
Is there a way to preserve the thumbnail or auto-generate one directly from the video stream, for example, using ...
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Windows 10: Set video thumbnails to specific frame or manage default offset
SOLUTION FOUND: If anyone ever stumble over the similar problem -- Icaros is the solution. majorgeeks.com/files/details/icaros.html
I've got bunch of similar video files with preview thumbnails that ...
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.jif images do not show thumbnail on Windows
Any JPG, GIF, PNG, etc, will display a Thumbnail on Windows File Explorer.
However, JIF images don't:
If I rename ".jif" to ".jpg", it displays the thumbnail:
Is there any way to ...
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Windows 10: Thumbnails outline only are showing?
Recently on my Windows 10 Enterprise machine (Version 1809) my (pinned and non-pinned) taskbar thumbnails have stopped showing and only show an outline, this happens after a shutdown also. I have #6 ...
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Win10's File Explorer no longer shows 16x16 thumbnails
(Actually, I found out in Directory Opus, which I use as File Explorer replacement, but FE behaves the same way.)
Larger thumbs show correctly, like in Tiles View, or Medium/Large Icons view. So it ...
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Video files thumbnails are not showing in some folders
I have 2 folders with identical files, a mix of video files and pictures.
1 folder is on external drive and it shows thumbnail for both videos and pictures.
Second folder is in OneDrive, and it only ...
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How to get .PSD Photoshop thumbnails to show in Windows 10?
I have a problem where thumbnails for Photoshop (PSD) files won't show in Windows 10. Instead, only the default program icon for PSD files is shown. Thumbnails for other image files are working ...
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Thumbnails break for no reason
Sometimes when I'm using my pc normally, I get broken thumbnails and explorer just going crazy and heck it's not the "go to folder options" thing, It's the THUMBNAIL NOT LOADING BECAUSE ...
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How to set a thumbnail to a video file on Windows 10
I have a mkv file and I would like to set a thumbnail. I would like this thumbnail to be an image of a random moment of this video, as Windows did for my other videos. If I am not clear enough, I’ll ...
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How can I view .ai thumbnail previews in explorer / Windows 10?
I want to see a thumbnail preview in place of the file explorer icon. I've managed to get this working for PSD's and PDFs, but not AI files. I know there's no native support for this, and I'm fairly ...
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In search of a solution to preload icons in Windows icon cache only for a specific folder
As you probably know, Windows XP has a feature of thumbnail caching. On each directory with photos you can find a hidden thumbs.db file that stores folder and file thumbnail references, that "thumbs....
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Firefox not displaying thumbnails for YouTube and eBay
I had a problem with the latest version of Firefox (74.0) and so downgraded to version 73.0. Now Firefox won't display thumbnails for YouTube and eBay. I have cleared the cache and cleared cookies ...
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Trigger windows to build preview images before opening folder
Is there any way to trigger Windows 10 to build the various image thumbnail sizes, other than just opening the folder in explorer and waiting?
I have an image export program, and it's exported a ...
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Windows 10 - see contents of thumbs.db
Is there a way to view the thumbnails cached by Windows 10 (thumbcache_***.db files)? I used to use a program thumbs viewer for that purpose - it worked fine on Windows Vista/7 but it seems to ...
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Thumbnails not showing on network drive but on local drives. (Win 10 Pro)
I just finished my new rig and installed Windows 10 Professional. I also have the latest version and all the updates.
When I go to my NAS, the explorer doesn't show thumbnails anymore (gif, png, jpg, ...
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Change all the video thumbnails at once
Is there a way to change all the video thumbnails to a default thumbnail in a particular folder in windows 10?
Present Thumbnail:
Expected Thumbnail:
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How do I make my PNGs have transparent thumbnail in Windows File Explorer?
Example provided below of the issue (where a black PNG is all black)
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how to change the thumbnails' (icons) default size in windows 10?
In Windows 7 I used to set my preferred thumbnail size:
Then I go in Folder options and make sure that the current style would apply to all folders of the same type:
However, that no longer works. ...
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Disable live thumbnails on Youtube web site
Please note this is not about the Youtube app. It is about using the Youtube website on a desktop from a browser.
I am using the old Youtube website layout (?disable_polymer=1).
One of the features ...
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How to prevent Windows Explorer from generating thumbnails for a specific folder?
I use rclone to mount a remote as a drive on Windows 10, however whenever I open a folder that contains videos, Windows Explorer starts trying to create thumbnails fo them which makes rclone re-...
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Can the IT department track my usage when i am watching You Tube thumbnail videos only?
I have been given a smartphone at my work place and i browse You Tube while i am on office network. IT department have registered the MAC address of the smartphone and keeps a track on employees using ...
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Generate preview thumbnail (sample) using ffmpeg?
I tried to google for a way to generate preview thumbnail (sample) like MPC-HC does:
As you can see, the thumbnail should have multiple frames and show the time of the frame, extra info of the video ...
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Thumbnail preview in explorer not showing thumbnails for images until vieweed by default app
Windows10, there are thumbnails for some images, but for some of them it does not.
I thought in direction of Always show icons, never thumbnails etc, but there ARE thumbs for some images.
As an ...
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