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I am struggling to have RAW Thumbnails show in Nautilus. I am using Ubuntu 21.04 & specifically Sony ARW from Sony A6000, Nex 6 & Nex 3 cameras. All of these use the same arw with embedded jpg thumbnails.

In Nautilus I just see a generic icon.

I tried a method to enable the mime-type image/x-sony-arw in pixbuf-thumbnailer, but it didn't work. I think Sony arw is simply not supported by pixbuf.

I also tried a method to add rawtherapee.thumbnailer & have rawtherapee do the work - this works! but it's painfully slow & very unsatisfactory.

It's rather a glaring flaw not to have such a ubiquitous format of the last decade unsupported on the Linux consumer flagship.

Can you help with this?

RiquezJP
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gThumb can also generate thumbnails. First install gThumb, then delete the thumbnail cache with rm -rf ~/.cache/thumbnails/* and close Nautilus. Then open gThumb and navigate to the folder with the .ARW files. Thumbnails will be generated and they will also appear in Nautilus.

cristian mos
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