** Also affects: gnome-desktop Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1443809
Title: Failed thumbnail check not working properly Status in GNOME Desktop Common Files: New Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: This is related to the gnome-thumbnailer code which is part of Nautilus. However, I don't know enough about programming to fix it myself. If a failed thumbnail exists for a file, or specifically a universal resource identifier, Nautilus will not try to create a valid thumbnail for it, unless a non-failed thumbnail also exists for that URI/path. Steps to replicate: 1) Create a new, blank document named image.jpg 2) make sure the failed thumbnail has been created, such as by restarting nautilus with 'nautilus --quit' 3) navigate back to that folder, rename or delete the blank file, and rename another image to image.jpg. Result: no thumbnail will be created for the image. When I was checking the thumbnail code for an unrelated issue (256x256 thumbnails take up too much space as PNG, sometimes larger than original file), I also saw enough to be able to investigate this issue a little. In the code for Nautilus, or gnome-thumbnailer, that I looked at, it appeared that the code was doing a check to see if the failed thumbnail was valid. That is, if the modification time of the file as recorded in the PNG Chunk data does not match, it probably shouldn't count as a match for the file. But either it is incorrectly matching, or something else is wrong. While testing for an unrelated issue that seemed like it might no longer exist, I found that as Firefox saves an item by creating a placeholder and then saving the actual file using a .part suffix (unless changed in options probably), it leads to this bug. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu15.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-30.40-generic 3.16.7-ckt3 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-30-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Tue Apr 14 00:40:58 2015 GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-visible-columns' b"['name', 'size', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'type']" b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'type', 'group', 'where', 'mime_type', 'owner', 'permissions']" SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-desktop/+bug/1443809/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp