I am using Nemo on Unity. Nemo is not generating thumbnails in 12.04 but Nautilus does it so well. Why can't Nemo do itself independently?
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Have enabled thumbnails in Nemo? – Hari Nov 16 '13 at 09:28
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1Where I can enable it in Nemo? In settings I selected smaller than 4GB. – Huseyin Nov 16 '13 at 09:50
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Also have you selected generation for all files – Hari Nov 16 '13 at 09:52
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There is not any option for it. – Huseyin Nov 16 '13 at 10:29
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Oh, I dont know that. have followed this http://www.webupd8.org/2013/10/install-nemo-with-unity-patches-and.html – Hari Nov 19 '13 at 03:34
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Already answered in detail here. In my case, I solved it by increasing the the maximum size of previewable files to 1 GB (see Preferences > Display) – loved.by.Jesus Mar 18 '22 at 10:33
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In case there's still anyone using nemo on Ubuntu 12.04 (or Linux Mint 13) I've encountered the same issue.
The problem is explained here and seems to be a bug in this particular version of nemo.
As a temporary solution, you can remove the ~/.thumbnails directory and replace it with a symlink to ~/.cache/thumbnails
To do this, run the following 2 commands in the terminal:
rm -r ~/.thumbnails
ln -s ~/.cache/thumbnails ~/.thumbnails
Some in the linked post above have reported side effects like compounding thumbnails in the ~/.cache/thumbnails directory due to the symlink, but I haven't had any issue. My guess is they were switching between using both nemo and nautilus which wrote to both directories.

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