Windows 10: Image folder preview stopped working

Since I have updated to Fall Creators Update, folder image preview no longer works I just get an image placeholder (see screen shot). Any way to fix?





Tried deleting the thumbnails database from command prompt but did not make any difference. In some folders pic thumbnails show some icons show.

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Right-Click preview option missing after Win 10 install

This option is not in any way like the previous mentioned "Preview" option other than the obvious. Files are always alphabetical and it does not roll over back to the first image. It works with "collections" and the old preview was folder specific and
dynamic (it rebuilds a list every time you open a folder so selecting one image and selecting "Preview" in the context menu lets you view every file in the folder in FOLDER sort order).

 

Image thumbnails in folders stopped working after fall creators update

Also while looking for fixes for this I discovered the preview pane isn't working. I enable the preview pane in an image folder and highlight an image and the preview pane stays blank. Can we have a fix for that as well? See attached screenshot.

 

Did you go into File and Folder options and make sure that you did not change the setting for icons to not show images. Along with enabling check marks.

 

Yes have checked that but here is the funny thing in some folders some pictures display some display as an icon, its all screwed up which makes picking screenshots difficult.

 

Maybe the app you have associated picture files with causing the problem.

Associate picture files with Windows Photo Viewer and see this will resolve the issue.

 

Checked default apps and pictures are set to "Photos" so looks like that app is playing up. See screenie

 

This is the tutorial for Thumbnail Preview. Enable or Disable Thumbnail Previews in File Explorer in Windows 10 Customization Tutorials You are supposed to just be able to do it from the ribbon.

 

@bro67 if you look at the screenshot shown above your post some pictures are displayed some are not. Trying to run the store troubleshooter and it is asking for a passphrase. Grrrr

 

Forget about the troubleshooter, you are going to have to go and do it the old school way. This is because for some reason the thumbnail cache is messed up, which requires going in and doing a cleanup, along with following the tutorial. It is really straightforward, that if all else fails, you do a rollback in system restore.

 

I have already deleted the databases and that hasn't helped a rollback is not an option.

 

A System Restore or non-volatile rollback, are your only two options. Something that you were doing, caused this. If in Files and Folders in the Control Panel does not work under the Themes section, you are going to have to try and show in detail, when it started, where you doing something and caused this, are you running any kind of third party software.

I have gotten to the point that I do not carry any documents and such on my MacBook Air, same as the Lenovo in our back room for doing somethings on windows. All of my stuff is kept on a NAS and in icloud.

 

Unfortunately I didn't notice when it started happening but it seems to have coincided with windows fall update. Hmm not much to go on I know.

Looking at the feedback hub it is a known problem with 27 upvotes and has been around since a year ago with win 10 so just need MS to fix it!

 

There is nothing for Microsoft to fix. It is caused by a human makit changes. The Rubbon and the Files and Folders in the Control Panel are the fix.

 

I had a MS remote session with a tech last night and she changed the default app to paint which made more of the icons turn to thumbnails but didn't fix all of them. She also checked the File settings in folder options by control panel and the ribbon setting. Neither of these fixed it.