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

[Dexter Ang]

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