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
    2019-05-18T16:38:18+00:00

    Hi Max,

    The steps you describe do the trick very well for me too.

    Thank you.

    However it is a pity that we had to invest a lot of time in a Windows 10 OS.

    Thanks to you I have all my thumbnails back and in the right place again.

    Please MS developers, solve this problem in the next W10 update.

    I am sure that a lot of people will be happy with that.

    Regards,

    Dirk

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-05-18T07:35:44+00:00

    I had the same issue and none of the suggestions found here helped, so I started to experiment myself and  I managed to fix it. Here is what I did:

    1. Unlink your PC from OneDrive
    2. Move all sub-folders (or just the once with files with bad, no-show thumbnails) from the OneDrive folder somewhere else (does not matter where, even to the same drive, just outside of the OneDrive folder)
    3. Copy (NOT move), all the folders that you just moved, back to the OneDrive folder.
    4. Delete the original folders that you moved out from the OneDrive folder (Optional to save space on the local PC)
    5. At this point, my file's thumbnails were restore and worked as they should. 
    6. Sign back into OneDrive. If your OneDrive foder is not in the default place, make sure to select it at this time and chose your old existing OneDrive folder. 
    7. It should take OneDrive just a few minutes to sync everything (mine synced over 120,000 files 654GB in 12 minutes)

     It appears that this is more of a Windows Explorer problem and not so much a OneDrive one.

    Hope this will help some of you that experience this.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-05-14T11:38:15+00:00

    It doesn't work for me too.

    Are you using the default location of OneDrive in another drive than (C) like I do ?? This is the main issue for me..

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-05-14T05:16:48+00:00

    Didn’t work for me...wish it did!

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