1

Basically the same question as here: Why doesn't Nemo preview thumbnails?

However, I've tried all of those solutions and still have this issue. Here's what I'm seeing: bad thumbnails

As you can see, i'm getting previews of images which are larger in size than the ones i'm not getting previews for. By the way, here's my settings for the size: enter image description here

I've also tried the re-linking of the ~/.thumbnails to ~.cache/thumbnails:

~$ ls -la | grep thumbnails

lrwxrwxrwx 1 josh 1000 17 Mar 30 09:46 .thumbnails -> .cache/thumbnails

My system info:

Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Cinnamon 3.6.7
Nemo 3.6.5

Maybe it's fixed in an update of one of those?

josh
  • 31

1 Answers1

0

I am using nemo on Ubuntu 18.04. I also had the problem of no previews. After lots of searching for solutions and trying various settings with dconf-editor, I finally searched my computer for a thumbnails folder or file, found this: 

~/.cache/thumbnails

Renamed it in case I needed to get it back:

mv ~/.cache/thumbnails ~/.cache/thumbnails~

and rebooted.

Nemo now shows the previews in icon view (the .cache now has a new thumbnails folder) and I deleted the renamed one:

rm -rf ~/.cache/thumbnails~

I hope this helps you as well.

Joshua Besneatte
  • 4,773
  • 5
  • 23
  • 42
San6007
  • 1