Re: [gthumb-list] can't view some NEF files

[Jef Driesen <jefdriesen hotmail com>]

On 2016-01-31 12:31, Nathan wrote:
> Hi, can someone help me? I am new to gthumb and am trying to view NEF
> files taken with a Nikon camera. However, some of the images do not
> show in gthumb and only an icon is displayed. For these images the
> information on the image says it is Format:TIFF. The ones that show
> correctly are listed as RAW format. I'm sure they are all raw!
>
> I am also using darktable and the items were also catalogued by
> Shotwell until I got rid of it. I don't think that all the photos that
> are not showing have be edited in darktable.
>
> If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it because gthumb looks like
> just what I want, but I need it to see all the photos.

I have this problem too. I didn't had time to debug this, but I have the 
impression that gthumb views some kind of embedded thumbnail instead of 
the actual image.

This bugreport might be related:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/geeqie/+bug/1509400

Jef