Ubuntu 13.04 Nautilus

**0N3** · April 14th, 2013

Nautilus is not showing thumbnails for any files but if I open nautilus as root it is showing thumbnails of files im using Ubuntu 13.04 this did always work.

**zrdc28** · April 14th, 2013

I am not at home now but if you will search you will find a place to set thumbnails or textview.

**VinDSL** · April 14th, 2013

Originally Posted by zrdc28

I am not at home now but if you will search you will find a place to set thumbnails or textview.

Here ya go...

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**converted** · April 19th, 2013

I don't think that's what the OP talking about. I have the exact same problem, regardless of settings.

I hadn't thought to try opening as root, but did so just now, and sure enough I get thumbnails then...

**converted** · April 22nd, 2013

Ok, I got it.

If the OP problem is the same as mine, somehow root owns /home/yourusername/.cache/thumbnails

So you just have to do this:

Code:

sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername ~/.cache/thumbnails

This will change the ownership of the folder to your user and group.

I didn't need to logout or restart nautilus or anything - as soon as I went back to that directory it was fixed.