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.

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Files, folders, and storage

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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
    2018-09-16T16:39:23+00:00

    @PAgilist,  Did you mean OneDrive or were you correct in saying OneNote?

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-09-09T10:24:49+00:00

    Thank you, that has worked for me.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-09-01T13:34:30+00:00

    I was trying to resolve the same issue and from the sounds of it your solution means that I would have to download all my files from my OneDrive onto my local hard drive. 

    I'd really prefer to be able to use the On Demand as this feature allows me to "offload" files into the cloud to save space on my laptop.

    Hoping there's another solution here.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-08-23T14:56:20+00:00

    Thank you! Solved an annoying problem for me.

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