I have a large collection on pictures which needed cropping, color balancing, autotuning, etc. Now Thunar is showing the old thumbnails and is very confusing because i can't visually separate edited pictures from unedited ones. How can i make Thunar automatically regenerate or create new thumbnails for the edited pictures?
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Have you tried simply refreshing? – anonymous2 Jul 18 '16 at 13:16
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I tried refreshing multiple times, i tried log out, i tried even rebooting PC. No change. Just the same old thumbnails. – ipse lute Jul 18 '16 at 14:42
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Remove all contents of ~/.cache/thumbnails/normal:
rm ~/.cache/thumbnails/normal/*
...and refresh the folder in thunar.
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It works, but i just had to individually confirm the deletion of some files with very long names. I kept on pressing Y (for yes) and Return for like a dozen times. Is there any way to make a recurrent answer for that, like
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Deleting ~/.cache/thumbnails/* didn't seem to help in my case, I had to regenerate thumbnails by refreshing (Ctrl+r) each view in Thunar. That is, having the first set of files in view in Thunar, refresh, then scroll and select a file not in view, refresh, etc. until all files have been in view while refreshing. Of course it's faster if you zoom out (Ctrl+-) to have more files in view.
It worked for JPGs, but the older thumbnails kept attached to raw (.NEF) files.
I ended up using this more radical solution :
rm $(locate thumbnails)
Skippy le Grand Gourou
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Its required to delete both normal and large thumbnails:
find ~/.cache/thumbnails/ -type f -print -delete
-print will print list of deleted files and can be removed.
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