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No thumbnail previews for Sketchup (.skp) files unless Offline
I have Dropbox 189.4 & Windows 11 23H2, and have noticed that for 'Online Only' Sketchup files, I can no longer see thumbnails of file contents when browsing Dropbox folders with File Explorer. As s...
Hi Nancy,
The version is 189.4 as mentioned (189.4.8395 to be really precise!). Sync status is 'Up to Date'.
Here is a screenshot of a folder in File Explorer which contains a set of Sketchup components, currently set as Online-Only and with one file selected, no thumbnails or preview:
Here is the same folder after making the first two rows of files 'Available Offline':
This is a similar component library folder, but in image formats (png, psd, jpg etc) rather than Sketchup. Here all the thumbnails show (after a bit of a time lag) even though the folder is Online-Only:
I hope that demonstrates the issue clearly.
Thank you.
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi keithswd, just to clarify that I understand, if a file is online-only, you don't have a thumbnail of the file, but if it's local, then you do, is that correct?
- Yes correct, that is the current behaviour for this file type.
- Jay
This would be expected behavior for online-only files, since there is no local copy of the image to be cached for there to be a thumbnail.
When the file is local, then Windows can create a thumbnail.
That's disappointing as it really slows down identification of files when browsing for a model to insert into a scene in Sketchup. What is different between image files that show thumbnails even when online only and Sketchup files which do not? Is the culprit Sketchup, Windows or Dropbox?
thank you
