Thumbnails for symlinked Video Files

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kko
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Thumbnails for symlinked Video Files

Post by kko »

I have a folder that has a bunch of symlinks in it to both pictures and video files, xy generates thumbnails for the pictures without issue but all the video files - regardless of codec - show a white file icon. If I browse to the folder that actually has the video files in it, it works fine.

Is there anything I can tweak to make this work or is it a bug/limitation in thumb generation? I'm using 17.40.0002.

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Re: Thumbnails for symlinked Video Files

Post by highend »

But you're actually in a subfolder (that is a symlink) when you're trying to display thumbnails?

I've tried it and (known) video file formats and pictures are processed correctly

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Re: Thumbnails for symlinked Video Files

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So the folder that I'm in is a real folder, the files inside that folder are all symlinked individually.

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Re: Thumbnails for symlinked Video Files

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Looks like a bug, individually symlinked video files don't show a thumbnail regardless on configuration
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Re: Thumbnails for symlinked Video Files

Post by admin »

Confirmed. Fixed in next version.

Note that Explorer is even worse: No thumbs also for symlinked images. :)

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Re: Thumbnails for symlinked Video Files

Post by kko »

That's exactly why I use XY :) Thanks for the quick fix!

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Re: Thumbnails for symlinked Video Files

Post by Display »

Has this bug re-appeared or have I got something weird in my setup? :oops:
I tried the default config but it didn't help (running 24.20.0010 beta)
Shortcut .lnks provide a thumbnail for both files and folders but fail with symlinks (they are local symlinks not networked)
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Re: Thumbnails for symlinked Video Files

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Fixed in next beta.

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Thank you!! :party: :party:
You've saved me from having to manually hunt through thousands of folders :biggrin:

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Re: Thumbnails for symlinked Video Files

Post by 1024mb »

Wait what, I thought this was intended, this has been happening on my end since forever :lol: .

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