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Fix missing thumbnails in Nautilus

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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2 Responses to “Fix missing thumbnails in Nautilus”


  • Scott Johnson
    March 7th, 2008 09:44
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    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?

  • Ted Carnahan
    March 7th, 2008 09:57
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    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.

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