Re: Video thumbnails

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 20:43 +0100, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> William Lovaton wrote:
> > Hi Jaap,
> > 
> > El vie, 10-12-2004 a las 16:48, Jaap Haitsma escribió:
> > 
> >>Dave Ahlswede wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 22:06 +0100, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>>I've got some weird stuff going on with video thumbnails. My Nautilus 
> >>>>2.8.2 on Debian sid is using the totem-video-thumbnailer. The thing is 
> >>>>that I get a thumbnail for the video if I place it in certain 
> >>>>directories and not if I put it in other directories.
> >>>>
> >>>>Anybody knows what's causing this???
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Is one of these directories non-local? (i.e. on an NFS mount) If this is
> >>>the case, you can go to edit/preferences/preview and set show thumbnails
> >>>to always, and it should work.
> >>>
> >>
> >>No they are all just sub directories of my home directory which is on my 
> >>local harddisk
> > 
> > 
> > Try deleting ~/.thumbnails
> > 
> Thanks that solves is.
> Do you have an explanation for it, why it happened. Should a bug be filed??

Maybe it failed once and you had a file in ~/.thumbnails/fail for the
locations where it didn't work.

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