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I have no clue as to why two days ago, all my Xara Designer thumbnails have turned to the generic purple "X", shown in my attachment.
One thing: I installed a small program to force Adobe products to show thumbnails. PDFs, AIs, and PSDs haven't shown in years.
Anyhow, any advice or similar things happening to anyone?
TIA,
Gary
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I think there must be a setting somewhere in saving files, maybe in settings.
you can try this:
and to make sure, you shoiuld check that thumbnails are enabled in file explorer [windows 10 - I do not know if this has changed in windows 11]Quote:
On the Start Menu, type Disk Cleanup and press enter > Select your C: Drive > Check only Thumbnails and press OK , when prompted, select delete files.
This process with clear the thumbnail cache resetting the thumbnail images
Thanks for the reply.
But no joy. Oddly,. PSD, PDF, a host of icons are thumbnails, but Xara won't budge. I have previous versions installed and am off to see whether they're still that program icon.
I might also try reinstalling the program.
It's a real, almost show-stopping annoyance, but not critical to the program working.
In any event, thanks for the reply. I'm using windows 10, because Microsoft says my machine isn't good enough for version 11.
:)
Gare
Found this in HELP. https://helpandsupport.xara.com/xara...ls%20thumbnail
My go-to approach is not to rely on Windows as it is very chuggy and throws hissy-fits like this all to often.
Instead, I use Everything, https://www.voidtools.com, and toggle from Details (Ctrl+Shift+6) to Thumbnails (Ctrl+Shift+1 / +2 / +3).
All blisteringly fast.
Ideal for viewing local cache XAR templates and components.
Acorn
Nice to know Acorn. Thank you.
My thumbnails also have gone AWOL ... Not recently, I hasten to add ... Probably 18 months ago, and nothing I've done - re-registering DLL's etc. has recovered them.
Typically I drag XAR's into my workspace from Zoner Photo Studio (I have an old perpetual licence), that works well for me, so not a deal breaker.
@GaryP - now you mention it, that sounds familiar, come up before I think
@Acorn - that looks interesting
perversely maybe, I have never bothered much with thumbnails for anything other than images
Thank you, all.
I will persevere in the morning.
Knee is arthritic, wears me out, scheduled surgery in Feb, damn it all.
g-
I'll be.....! Never knew that option existed in Everything and I use the app every day!Quote:
Originally Posted by Acorn
For thumbnail views, I use Mystic Thumbs as it's continuously expanded and includes many file formats.
Although I needed to adjust the path—which Barbara pointed out, containing a smirk—it worked a treat!
Thanks, oG, thanks TPTB @ Xara!
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This is definitely a good thing to put in your notebooks!
My Best,
Gary
Thank you GaryP for finding the Xara answer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gare
I've 'nuggeted' this Thread for others to reference.
Acorn
for information only, the thread I was reminded of is here: https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...ail-in-windows
good to see xara have taken this on board
Hey, George—
Another nugget-worth link is http://www.ardfry.com/psd-codec/ which is what I resorted to after my Xara thumbnails went sideways. It didn't solve the problem but what it did do is make EVERY file icon turn into a thumbnail...well,. almost but 90%.
And I have no reason why to offer, but in Win 10, Xara native thumbnail have always shown for me in a folder window:
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My Best and extremely happy today,
Gary
Just another free for personal use addition to this topic is to use xnviewmp to view any image file (ghostscript needs to be installed also for psd, etc.)
Or one could opt for eagle.cool(paid) to view and tag and sort and view image files and video,audio,documents and fonts which could be activated and deactivated too.
The new,soon to be released version 4, will also support 3d formats see https://en.eagle.cool/blog/post/4.0-beta
Oh you can also create a thumbnail per file yourself to be used for those obscure formats that you wish to be able to see like asset files in say affinity.;)
hakoo, thank you for this. Gare was asking for mini views or individual Thumbs of each of his XAR files, not an image file format, so does xnviewmp handle Xara Thumbs too?Quote:
Originally Posted by haakoo
Acorn
Yes.
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Have to come back on my eagle.cool approach as it doesn't show the xar thumbs but one has to create the (per file)thumbs themselves, sorry for any confusion.
But still a good tool to have installed though.
Thanks for the heads-up.Quote:
Originally Posted by haakoo
Acorn
I find xNViewhttps://www.xnview.com/en/ and the context menu addition https://www.xnview.com/en/xnshell/ to be indispensable for work other that Xara Designer work. You can batch rename VERY easily, Batch process files to different formats, and a lot of useful stuff you many never had considered.
It's free, and the right-click shell extension can provide you with an almost instant large preview of a selected file. I oftenn use it to post someting on the fly as a JPEG on FaceBook when my desired file is a PNG.
One of the better free downloads for artists and designers, I'd say.
My Best,
Gary