It does not preview the thumbnails of the mobile photos

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Hello, the problem I have is that when I connect the phone to the computer and enter the photos folder, it does not show me the thumbnails to preview the photos. It only shows me the generic icons without a photo preview. Can this be fixed?
a greeting.
 


And what exactly is "it"? Can you provide more details such as the distro and desktop environment?
 
I know a few people are having problems with the new Iphone and win10, I have an android phone and a Ubuntu based distro , and yes when I open DCM I get a generic picture and its number, the options I use is open the first one in image viewer and use the arrows to scroll through one at a time [I don't take many pictures] or if i have got a few I just download in bulk to a new folder in my pictures

Bwiz
 
is ubuntu 20.10
What desktop environment are you using? Gnome? KDE? Cinnamon? XFCE4? Which one? Usually, this has to do with some missing plugin/add-on, and every desktop has its own.
 
it's gnome, thanks for your help!
Try installing this pkgs ffmpegthumbnailer, gst-libav, gst-plugins-ugly. Launch gnome terminal and type
Code:
sudo apt install ffmpegthumbnailer gst-libav gst-plugins-ugly
press Enter, type in password when asked, and hit Enter again. Once those pkgs have been installed, in the terminal type
Code:
cd ~/.cache/thumbnails/fail
and then type
Code:
rm *
Or you can also launch Files/Nautilus, Gnome's file manager, go to that directory, and delete its contents, restart the file manager, try and see whether thumbnails are now being generated.
 
Open Nautilus
From the menu-bar, select Edit
Select Preferences
In the File Preferences dialog, Click on the Preview tab
From the Files drop down, make sure "Always" is selected, instead of "Local Files Only"

Also be advised since you are running 20.10 that is dead you should upgrade to 21.04 or install 20.04 LTS
 
Open Nautilus
From the menu-bar, select Edit
Select Preferences
In the File Preferences dialog, Click on the Preview tab
From the Files drop down, make sure "Always" is selected, instead of "Local Files Only"

Also be advised since you are running 20.10 that is dead you should upgrade to 21.04 or install 20.04 LTS
great, it worked, thank you very much.
 
I'm having this problem 2 years after the OP. Ubuntu 22.04.

The packages gst-libav and gst-plugins-ugly no longer seem to be available.

ALL by browsers (nautilus, nemo, thunar, and ubuntu files) all present thumbnails on files on my HD. None of them will do so on from my phone. And, it's not my phone (Moto G); my wifes Moto E acts the same. But, on my wife's computer running mint 20.1 all works as expected.

Suggestions?
 
I'm having this problem 2 years after the OP. Ubuntu 22.04.

The packages gst-libav and gst-plugins-ugly no longer seem to be available.

ALL by browsers (nautilus, nemo, thunar, and ubuntu files) all present thumbnails on files on my HD. None of them will do so on from my phone. And, it's not my phone (Moto G); my wifes Moto E acts the same. But, on my wife's computer running mint 20.1 all works as expected.

Suggestions?
gstreamer1.0-libav
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly

are the correct names
 
Make sure tumbler and tumbler-plugins-extra are installed
 
I'm using Nemo, and in the Preferences, in a Preview category, there is an option to "only show previews for files smaller than <choice>". This is set pretty low by default (100 MB). Phone photos are likely much larger.

Just a wild guess. Good luck.
 
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Make sure tumbler and tumbler-plugins-extra are installed
-extras were not installed. They are now ... deleted the .cache/thumbnails files and actually rebooted.

Still no thumbs for the camera.

And before someone else asks, yes I have the android for "file transfer" mode ... but that's probably not the issue since I can read, copy, etc.
 
I'm using Nemo, and in the Preferences, in a Preview category, there is an option to "only show previews for files smaller than <choice>". This is set pretty low by default (100 MB). Phone photos are likely much larger.

Just a wild guess. Good luck.

I don't see a file size in Nautilus (which is fine since I'm only using for this testing), but in nemo I have filesize set to 2gb and showthumbnails YES. Also, I have inherit thumbnail vis. from parent clicked. I'm not really sure what this option does.

Thanks for trying!
 
I'm not sure if this helps ... but I have tried this from xfce, mint, kde and gnome. No differences.

One interesting "thing" is that if I try to access things from dophin I get the following messages:

bob$ dolphin
qt.svg: /usr/share/icons/Faba/16x16/actions/dialog-ok.svg:112: Could not resolve property: #linearGradient4205
qt.svg: /usr/share/icons/Faba/16x16/actions/dialog-ok.svg:112: Could not resolve property: #linearGradient4205
qt.svg: /usr/share/icons/Faba/16x16/actions/dialog-ok.svg:112: Could not resolve property: #linearGradient4205
kf.kio.core: "The file or folder udi=/org/kde/solid/udev/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-5/1-5.4/1-5.4.3 does not exist."

Does that mean anything in the context of this discussion?
 
Hmm... I wonder if there's a time limitation and the image sizes or transfer speeds are making it so that the thumbnails don't show because they take too long to transfer to the computer?

I'm trying to think of the file manager's name, but I've seen "TTL" (though probably under a different name) settings before, though they might have been set when you compiled it. I can't recall and it has been ages - plus I'm well into my third glass of wine.
 
If it was a problem with one file manager, it would make some sense ... but they all seem to be conspiring :)

Just on a thought I had a look at /var/log/syslog. Does this set of lines mean anything ...

Jun 10 18:32:37 Mellowood kernel: [ 3893.835381] usb 1-5.4.3: new high-speed USB device number 15 using xhci_hcd
Jun 10 18:32:38 Mellowood kernel: [ 3893.915365] usb 1-5.4.3: device descriptor read/64, error -32
Jun 10 18:32:38 Mellowood kernel: [ 3894.123973] usb 1-5.4.3: New USB device found, idVendor=22b8, idProduct=2e82, bcdDevice= 2.23
Jun 10 18:32:38 Mellowood kernel: [ 3894.123987] usb 1-5.4.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Jun 10 18:32:38 Mellowood kernel: [ 3894.123993] usb 1-5.4.3: Product: moto g pure
Jun 10 18:32:38 Mellowood kernel: [ 3894.123997] usb 1-5.4.3: Manufacturer: motorola
Jun 10 18:32:38 Mellowood kernel: [ 3894.124000] usb 1-5.4.3: SerialNumber: ZY22F6NQN7
Jun 10 18:32:46 Mellowood kernel: [ 3902.828039] usb 1-5.4.3: USB disconnect, device number 15
Jun 10 18:32:47 Mellowood kernel: [ 3903.163541] usb 1-5.4.3: new high-speed USB device number 16 using xhci_hcd
Jun 10 18:32:47 Mellowood kernel: [ 3903.264170] usb 1-5.4.3: New USB device found, idVendor=22b8, idProduct=2e82, bcdDevice= 2.23
Jun 10 18:32:47 Mellowood kernel: [ 3903.264182] usb 1-5.4.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Jun 10 18:32:47 Mellowood kernel: [ 3903.264188] usb 1-5.4.3: Product: moto g pure
Jun 10 18:32:47 Mellowood kernel: [ 3903.264192] usb 1-5.4.3: Manufacturer: motorola
Jun 10 18:32:47 Mellowood kernel: [ 3903.264196] usb 1-5.4.3: SerialNumber: ZY22F6NQN7
Jun 10 18:32:57 Mellowood rtkit-daemon[1360]: message repeated 3 times: [ Supervising 8 threads of 6 processes of 2 users.]
Jun 10 18:32:59 Mellowood gvfsd-fuse[2714]: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Cache invalid, retry (internally handled). Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

This last line may be a clue??? But, I'm just running ubuntu binaries on this ...
 

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