Nautilus not generating thumbnails in 13.10

Question

Like the title says, Nautilus is not generating thumbnails for any file types (pictures, documents, pdf, etc) after a clean install of 13.10. I have checked the preferences and it is set to always generate thumbnails.

Help please!

Solution 1

I solved the problem by deleting whole folder thumbnails in ~/.cache and remaking it.

1. Disable preview in nautilus by opening home folder, Edit-> Preferences-> Preview.

2. sudo rm ~/.cache/thumbnails

3. Empty trash can

4. mkdir ~/.cache/thumbnails

5. Reboot

6. Enable preview, again home folder, Edit-> Preferences-> Preview.

Done.

Solution 2

I think the issue arises from the fact that the /home/x/.cache/thumbnails is owned by root, not by the actual user...

Hence rather than setting it to chmod 777, all you need to do is to "sudo chown [username] /home/[username]/.cache/thumbnails"

The above solves the problem for me.

Comments

[david6]

New install, or upgrade (from 13.04) ?

[isaaclw]

Here's a rather accurate solution for 13.10 and all past versions: askubuntu.com/a/179107/17065 Note the change in path from '.thumbnails' to '.cache/thumbnails'

[isaaclw]

This isn't always true, but in past versions the folder was '.thumbnails' insteaad of '.cache/thumbnails'

[Peter]

This worked for me. Thank you. It's important to follow every step

[Requist]

This solution sounds a bit strange to me, especially considering it is a clean install?