Why I can't see the thumbnails in Nautilus?

Question

Problem Loading Thumb Previews:

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This started to happen after upgraded Ubuntu from 12.04 to 12.10.

BuZZ-dEE · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-22 23:17:01Z

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Looks like the path has changed in recent versions. For me the issue in 13.04 was that ~/.cache/thumbnails was owned by root.

So for 13.04 at least, the command is:

sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername ~/.cache/thumbnails

So Salem did have it-

edited Apr 22 at 23:17

BuZZ-dEE
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answered Apr 22 at 22:55

jejbarr
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user105942 · Answer 2 · 2012-11-06 14:09:07Z

I had the same issue.

I solved it by moving the .thumbnails folder and setting a symbolic link to .cache/thumbnails instead.

mv ~/.thumbnails ~/thumbnails
ln -s ~/.cache/thumbnails ~/.thumbnails

Is it possible that there were some changes?

It looks to me like the thumbnailers create their thumbnails in .cache/thumbnails, while nautilus keeps looking in .thumbnails.

Salem · Answer 3 · 2012-11-04 17:32:17Z

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Try executing this on a terminal:

sudo chown -R <user>:<user> ~/.thumbnails

replacing the two instances of <user> with your username. Then logout and login again.

answered Nov 4 '12 at 17:32

Salem
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	How can I Find My Exact username? :( – Vishnu Praneeth Reddy Nov 4 '12 at 17:44
	praneeth@praneeth-HP-Pavilion-dv7-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo chown -R praneeth:praneeth ~/.thumbnails [sudo] password for praneeth: chown: cannot access `/home/praneeth/.thumbnails': No such file or directory @salem Thanks For Reply :D – Vishnu Praneeth Reddy Nov 4 '12 at 17:46
	ok, try creating the folder is missing: `mkdir ~/.thumbnails`, then logout/login. – Salem Nov 4 '12 at 17:50
	i did :( but no change not worked :( – Vishnu Praneeth Reddy Nov 4 '12 at 18:04

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