Video thumbnails missing in Files (Nautilus)

[Raik]

I reinstalled Manjaro Gnome recently and went for the minimal ISO instead of the full install. Read around the forums to download and install ffmpegthumbnailer but I still can’t see thumbnails. It once tried to do so but only a few where made and tinted green but I did a reinstall of ffmpegthumbnailer with sudo pacman -S ffmpegthumbnailer and nothing yet, any ideas?

[Mirdarthos]

Hi @Raik,

Do you have totem movie player installed?

If not, install it and see if it helps:

pamac install totem

If you do, then check for failed entries in

~/.cache/thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/

…and if there are, delete the fail folder.

Hope this helps!

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Reference:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/u6t0u8/how_do_you_get_nautilus_to_show_the_thumbnails_im/i5baq6w/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[bearcat]

In my videos, thumbnails are only made for locally stored files. Not those in cloud or network storage. So that may be a factor.

[andreas85]

And it is also adjustable:

• from which file extensions thumbs are created
• whether only local files are taken into account
• the maximum size of the files
  

[Raik]

Thanks a lot for the help. @Mirdarthos indeed, deleting the fail folder made it refresh. Thanks for everything and have a great day ya’ll