Re: [gthumb-list] can't view some NEF files (Jef Driesen)

[Nathan <sirrahn gmail com>]

I just found something interesting in relation to displaying NEF files. 

Gthumb wan’t displaying some properly but nautilus also wasn’t showing some correctly. So I removing gthumb 
from the computer and copied a folder of NEF files to a new location. When I viewed the folder in nautilus 
the files were all displayed as icons but thumbnails for all the photos were slowly generated successfully. 
It was also interesting that when I moved the folder back to the original location the icons/thumbnails went 
back to their original state.

It would seem that gnome has a store of thumbnails for each folder which it generates. I am wondering whether 
installation of gthumb or browsing of the files with gthumb somehow affects the generation of the thumbnails 
and is not doing it correctly. I’m not sure of the implication of any of this for the problem.

Anyway it is a shame that gthumb is not handling NEF files correctly because otherwise it is a lovely app and 
just what I wanted. Hopefully at some point this problem is addressed and I’ll be able to use it. 


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> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 14:50:23 +0100
> From: Jef Driesen <jefdriesen hotmail com>
> To: Nathan <sirrahn gmail com>
> Cc: gthumb-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [gthumb-list] can't view some NEF files
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> 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
>
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