Thumbnails not displaying

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chuck902
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Thumbnails not displaying

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I have a folder of photos that the thumbnails are not displaying. Also the image window does not display anything when a file is selected.

I tried the different settings in Options.
I tried rebuilding the thumbnails.
I tried moving them to a different folder.
I tried upgrading the the latest version of Xnview.
I clicked the Optimize button in Options>Thumbnails>Cache (Don't know what it does but I was trying everything.)

If i double click, the image displays fine in viewer mode.
When I copied these files to my laptop Xnview displayed them just fine.

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance for help and of course for Xnview.
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Re: Thumbnails not displaying

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Strange problem... And if you disable Caching (option/Thumbnails>Cache)?
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chuck902
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Re: Thumbnails not displaying

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I just tried that and it did not help.
I also tried uninstalling and then reinstalling the program and now no files will display thumbnails.
Strange thing is the folder thumbnails are displaying but if you click into a folder there are no thumbnails.

What's next?
chuck902
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Re: Thumbnails not displaying

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I tried something else.

I uninstalled XnView.
I deleted the XnView folder from Program Files.
I deleted every reference the XnView I could find in the registry.

I then reinstalled and it seems to work now.
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Re: Thumbnails not displaying

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chuck902 wrote:... I then reinstalled and it seems to work now.
Good to hear that it works, again. Sounds like one or several settings had been wrong. E.g. in Tools > Options > Browser > Files one can easily change things in a way that you do no longer see thumbnails or any files at all.

By removing all files and settings the XnView settings also have been removed and thus reset to standard.
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