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Doomguy2084

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Registered: 2016-07-26

Posts: 10

Shotwell video thumbnails problem

I have my video thumbnails in Totem and Thunar (xfce file manager), but when I Import my videos into shotwell my videos are
without thumbnails.

What could be the reason for this?

I've previously fixed my thunar thumbnails by installing some packages and updating MIME db:

 
sudo pacman -S tumbler ffmpegthumbnailer gstreamer0.10 poppler-glib libgsf libopenraw
sudo rm -rf ~/.thumbnails/
mv ~/.config/Thunar ~/.config/Thunar.bak
sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime

But now, I have no clue how to fix Shotwell video thumbnails....

Starscade

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From: Bay Area, CA

Registered: 2016-08-06

Posts: 9

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Re: Shotwell video thumbnails problem

It looks like there was a bug in versions prior 0.13.1-6.
I assume you're running the latest build?

One possibility is that Shotwell's thumbnailer isn't in it's proper location.
Creating a symlink to the thumbnailer looks like a possible workaround.

Last edited by Starscade (2016-08-07 20:45:55)

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jones

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Registered: 2013-03-14

Posts: 276

Re: Shotwell video thumbnails problem

I have my video thumbnails in Totem and Thunar (xfce file manager), but when I Import my videos into shotwell my videos are
without thumbnails.

What could be the reason for this?

I've previously fixed my thunar thumbnails by installing some packages and updating MIME db:

 
sudo pacman -S tumbler ffmpegthumbnailer gstreamer0.10 poppler-glib libgsf libopenraw
sudo rm -rf ~/.thumbnails/
mv ~/.config/Thunar ~/.config/Thunar.bak
sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime

But now, I have no clue how to fix Shotwell video thumbnails....

This is just a post to state that all the lines above have not worked for me.

What ultimately worked for me was

rm -r ~/.cache/thumbnails

Or it was that after a few minutes I just ran this command but at this time, Thunar just worked with the folder I opened. So this command only helped but wasn't the single solution to the problem.