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Getting Thumbnails / Previews of your RAW files in Ubuntu

Howto

Install these programms

sudo apt-get install gnome-raw-thumbnailer ufraw-batch

Try now if everything works, and your thumbnails show up. If not, try the following part.

Fixing missing mime types

In case the default config does not work for you, try this:

Edit the file /usr/share/thumbnailers/raw.thumbnailer as root and insert the following content:

[Thumbnailer Entry]
TryExec=ufraw-batch
Exec=ufraw-batch --silent --size %s --out-type=png --noexif --output=%o --overwrite --embedded-image %i
MimeType=image/x-canon-cr2;image/x-canon-crw;image/x-minolta-mrw;image/x-nikon-nef;image/x-pentax-pef;image/x-panasonic-raw2;image/x-samsung-srw;image/x-olympus-orf;

Check if the mime type of your RAW images in in the MimeType list.

After that, stop nautlius and clear the thumbnail caches:

nautlius -q
rm -rf .cache/thumbnails/* .thumbnails/*

gelioz commented Mar 19, 2017

Replace nautlius -q with nautlius -q and extend mimetypes list with following:
MimeType=image/x-3fr;image/x-adobe-dng;image/x-arw;image/x-bay;image/x-canon-cr2;image/x-canon-crw;image/x-cap;image/x-cr2;image/x-crw;image/x-dcr;image/x-dcraw;image/x-dcs;image/x-dng;image/x-drf;image/x-eip;image/x-erf;image/x-fff;image/x-fuji-raf;image/x-iiq;image/x-k25;image/x-kdc;image/x-mef;image/x-minolta-mrw;image/x-mos;image/x-mrw;image/x-nef;image/x-nikon-nef;image/x-nrw;image/x-olympus-orf;image/x-orf;image/x-panasonic-raw;image/x-panasonic-raw2;image/x-pef;image/x-pentax-pef;image/x-ptx;image/x-pxn;image/x-r3d;image/x-raf;image/x-raw;image/x-rw2;image/x-rwl;image/x-rwz;image/x-samsung-srw;image/x-sigma-x3f;image/x-sony-arw;image/x-sony-sr2;image/x-sony-srf;image/x-sr2;image/x-srf;image/x-x3f;

It's working. Thank you very much.

I've just configured this on my Ubuntu Gnome 17.04, it seems that it's working only if you don't install gnome-raw-thumbnailer, otherwise it generates ugly black thumbnails. Strange :) Thank you anyway!

Thanks @vranystepan. Same for Linux Mint 18.1. Removed gnome-raw-thumbnailer, stopped nemo and cleared cache.

smac89 commented Dec 11, 2017

Using ufraw-batch definitely sped up the process. I went from 1 picture showing every 5 seconds, to like 10 pictures per second.
Thanks for the useful guide

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