HowTo force thunar to create image thumbnails

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HowTo force thunar to create image thumbnails

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Sometimes, Thunar (XFCE's file manager) is just not creating thumbnails for images in a folder.
If that happens, the following usually does the trick:
  1. Quit all Thunar instances:

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    $ killall Thunar
  2. Quit the thumbnailing daemon "tumbler":

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    $ killall tumblerd
If you then open Thunar and locate to a folder with image files that had no preview, it will spawn tumblerd again and create the thumbnails 8)
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