Image thumbnails not always showing in the file manager or Gnome image viewer
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1566244/image-thumbnails-not-always-showing-in-the-file-manager-or-gnome-image-viewerI have recently returned to Linux after a long hiatus, currently using Ubuntu 24.04.4LTS.
I have a large collection of images that I would like to sort and arrange but I am having problems with thumbnails showing up in the file manager (Gnome Files 46.4). Some photos do generate a thumbnail, but most simply give me a purple, generic icon. To make it more difficult for me to understand, some of my folders show thumbnails for all photos in that folder, but then a sub-folder doesn't display thumbnails at all. This problem seems to be irrespective of image file type.
When I open an image in the image viewer (Gnome Image Viewer 45.3 or Eye of Gnome 47.0), the image displays properly, but the thumbnails of the other images in the folder do not display at the bottom of the window.
Without thumbnails displaying consistently in the file manager, it is impossible for me to manage my image files. Is there a solution, or perhaps a better file manager?