file explorer not showing thumbnails for onedrive folder

Anonymous
2018-05-21T19:58:48+00:00

Many of my images have no thumbnail in my users one drive folder, even for files that are downloaded to my pc.

Full path C:\Users\myuser\OneDrive\Pictures\Camera Roll

How can I fix this? There was a time when thumbnails always worked for this folder, but I can't remember when this stopped working, it's been a couple/few weeks perhaps.

Also, why are some of the images near the end only available online. In my one drive settings this entire folder is set to sync.

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Anonymous
2018-07-13T10:17:06+00:00

I had the same issue and to fix it I went into the settings of the One Drive app and disabled (untick) the Files On Demand service then hit OK. Then after a restart of the PC all thumbnails within my One Drive folders had returned.

No I idea why this works but it did for me and hopefully will do for you also.

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-08-13T22:27:47+00:00

    But when you untick this box, One Drive downloads all the files to you local hard disk (which has not enough space for it ...).

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-08-13T22:22:31+00:00

    Hi, this works for me as well. Unfortunately, after restarting the computer one or two times, the same problem appears ...

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-08-11T13:02:40+00:00

    Do you have OneDrive location on another drive than "C:" (The default) ?

    yes, all my one drive files are on another drive besides C:\ (which could not hold all the files anyway).

    This is the main problem, and I think they have fixed it but only for the new files not the current ones!

    To fix the current ones just simply:

    1- Close OneDrive completely and browse to its folder.

    2- Move everything that has this issue to another drive than the current one you are using for OneDrive.

    "For example if OneDrive is in drive (D:) then move the files to (E:) or (C:) or any other drive"

    3- When everything is moved successfully their thumbnails will work fine!

    4- Now move them back to their original location again.

    5- Run OneDrive and that's it !

    But please make sure you completely close OneDrive first before all this process.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-08-11T12:38:02+00:00

    I have opted to Faststone Image Viewer which--unlike Windows Explorer--shows all the thumbnails of my photos.  Maybe its not a onedrive issue, but a Microsoft Windows Explorer issue since Faststone has NO problem generating the thumbnails.

    Ed G

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