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Fix missing thumbnails in Nautilus

By Ted Carnahan on February 6, 2008

As I begin assembling the picture package for my J-term trip to Israel and Palestine, I’ve run into a problem: with high-end digital cameras, the JPEG-compressed image files are larger than 5 MB, and Nautilus (the default Ubuntu file manager) won’t create thumbnails for pictures that size.

The solution: a bit of configuration in gconf-editor. Navigate to key /apps/nautilus/preferences and increase the size of thumbnail_limit to something more reasonable for modern cameras.

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4 responses to “Fix missing thumbnails in Nautilus”

  1. Scott Johnson
    Scott Johnson March 7, 2008 at 4:44 pm | | Reply

    Hey Ted,

    This is Scott J I was bored at work and thought I’d google your name to see if you would come up. How are you doing? Still living in Columbia?

  2. Scott Johnson
    Scott Johnson March 7, 2008 at 9:44 am | | Reply

    Hey Ted,

    This is Scott J I was bored at work and thought I’d google your name to see if you would come up. How are you doing? Still living in Columbia?

  3. Ted Carnahan
    Ted Carnahan March 7, 2008 at 4:57 pm | | Reply

    Hey Scott – good to hear from you. We’re not in Columbia any longer. We moved up to Dubuque, IA so that I could start my M.Div. at Wartburg Theological Seminary. I’ll be in St. Louis this summer for CPE, though, so I hope we get a chance to get together then.

  4. Ted Carnahan
    Ted Carnahan March 7, 2008 at 9:57 am | | Reply

    Hey Scott – good to hear from you. We’re not in Columbia any longer. We moved up to Dubuque, IA so that I could start my M.Div. at Wartburg Theological Seminary. I’ll be in St. Louis this summer for CPE, though, so I hope we get a chance to get together then.