Re: Force Nautilus to refresh thumbnails (was Re: Video thumbnails gone -- how to regenerate?)

From: Dexter Ang (thepoch_at_mydestiny.net)
Date: 06/27/04

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    D. D. Brierton wrote:
    > On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 22:59, D. D. Brierton wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Does anyone know how to manually force the regeneration of the
    >>thumbnails or how to test whether totem-video-thumbnailer is broken in
    >>some way?
    >
    >
    > Having played around with this more, I don't think
    > totem-video-thumbnailer is broken, because this:
    >
    > $ totem-video-thumbnailer path/to/movie.avi ./thumbnail.png
    >
    > works just fine. So for some reason Nautilus is not calling
    > totem-video-thumbnailer when it comes across video files that don't have
    > thumbnails associated with them.
    >
    > Is there a way to force Nautilus to refresh thumbnails?
    >

    I've found that deleting the ~/.thumbnails folder makes nautilus
    generate thumbnails again. You could try that.

    dex 

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