Rebuild thumbnails confusing

[jadO]

View->Rebuild thumbnails is confusing. What is it supposed to do? Does it rebuild the thumbnail for the selected files? Or the folder I am currently in? Or all thumbnails in the database?

[xnview]

It rebuild thumbnails for selected thumbnail or current folder if no selection

[jadO]

It rebuild thumbnails for selected thumbnail or current folder if no selection

Ah I see. It would be nice to have this as context menu. Then it would be clear that is will be performed on the selected item(s).

[jadO]

Now when I tried to rebuild thumbnails, it did not work.
It did not change the thumbnails at all.

Only via settings->thumbnails when I delete thumbnails for a selected folder and then open that folder, the new thumbnails get generated.

[xnview]

the thumbnails are generated only if needed

[jadO]

the thumbnails are generated only if needed

Oh. So it is even more confusing. I think that is not a good decision. When I want to rebuild a thumbnail, XnVieMP should rebuild the thumbnail as requested.

[xnview]

the thumbnails are generated only if needed

Oh. So it is even more confusing. I think that is not a good decision. When I want to rebuild a thumbnail, XnVieMP should rebuild the thumbnail as requested.

no sorry the thumbnail is recreated.

Now when I tried to rebuild thumbnails, it did not work.
It did not change the thumbnails at all.

how do you see that?

[jadO]

Now when I tried to rebuild thumbnails, it did not work.
It did not change the thumbnails at all.

how do you see that?

I checked that with one of those file where 4 thumbnails did not work. After switching to ffmpeg I need to recreate those to have 4 thumbs for them as well.
Now when I clicked one of those and pressed rebuild, nothing happend.

[xnview]

it works for me

[jadO]

After some testing to me it seems that clicking rebuild thumbnail does not trigger the function to start.
When I select some files then click "rebuild thumbnails" then scroll up a bit, only then the thumbnailing starts.

Other triggers not working in XnView MP as well.

[Ilikemyprivacy]

Rebuild thumbnails isn't working on it either. It may have something to do with the other symbols. There are three...

1. A small white box in the corner: I think that's the embedded image one
2. A white I: that's an uppercase i not a lower case L
3. A white E.

Cleaning the thumbnail removes all but the small white box, and like I said, it doesn't clear up the thumbnail, and the other symbols just return as soon as I re-click on the folder or rebuild the thumbnail. Before cleaning would clean the thumbnail but it would do that by making a copy of the image as a .jp_ file.

[bsac]

Rebuilding thumbnails DOES NOT WORK.

I select all files that are in the folder using EDIT MENU > SELECT ALL FILES then go to View Menu and select REBUILD THUMBNAILS yet all the files that are not displaying a thumbnail image remain. Are files broken and impossible to rebuild the thumbnail?

I'm not sure if it is me, but the menus and options/sub menus are hard to understand because they are not intuitive.

Is it just me?

I'm trying to fix all my family photos that do not have thumbnails. Am I using the right app to fix these files?

[user0]

I'm not sure if it is me, but the menus and options/sub menus are hard to understand because they are not intuitive.

they are fine
check XnViewMP - thumbnails - understanding quality/size