At times my Windows explorer does not properly generate thumbnails, mainly for media files (No preview of the video or image, just the file's extension). The way to solve this is to clear thumbnail cache through Disk Cleanup and restarting Explorer, but I don't want to do that every couple of days.
However, that's mainly the reason I started used Directory Opus but it seems to also have the same problem. Is there a way to have DO display file thumbnails for video/image files independently from Shell? It works fine for programs and their icons, but folders and video/image files? No
Opus gets video thumbnails via the Windows shell, so if there’s a problem there it’ll also affect Opus.
Issues with video thumbnails usually come down to video codecs. Opus has columns under the Movies category which can usually tell you which codec a file uses, which may point to the component that needs installing/updating/replacing.
If OneDrive or similar cloud storage is involved, it gets more complicated, since thumbnails for offline files are generated by the server, not on the local machine, which may have more limited codec and format support.
Not using cloud storage, it's as you said a shell problem reflecting on Opus. So I take there is no way to circumvent this issue through a plugin that, say, extract a single video frame from the video and displays that as the thumbnail (By using separate cache from Windows'?)
I am sorry for going a little off-topic, but I don't quite understand how this program helps? It "provides Windows explorer thumbnails". Is it overriding Explorer's shell icons by using its own cache, thus solving my problem?
I tried it out, didn't seem to fix the problem (unless I did sth wrong). Cached a test folder, but the files inside still did not refresh their thumbnails.
