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
    2019-03-21T00:18:33+00:00

    This is AMAZING! I've been trying to figure out for months why this was happening in One Drive. I tried your fix and it worked! Thank you!

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-03-12T09:11:35+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.

     

    Thank m8! Its totally worked! (y)

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-02-25T10:17:46+00:00

    I repeat, no solution in here ever worked ! As long as I'm making the default location of OneDrive in partition (D:) Which is the main problem in this situation.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-02-25T08:46:22+00:00

    Also worked for me, simple fix,,,,thanks.

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