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fire-eggs / DarkThumbs

Adds thumbnail preview to Windows Explorer for EPUB, FB2, DJVU and Kindle ebooks; 7Z, CB7, CBZ, CBR, RAR and ZIP archives.
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Not working #44

Closed github-account1111 closed 2 years ago

github-account1111 commented 2 years ago

I've checked every checkbox in the manager but still don't see any thumbnails: image

fire-eggs commented 2 years ago

I'm sorry to hear you're having difficulties. As a quick check, have you made certain to disable the "Always show icons, never thumbnails" option in Explorer?

DarkThumbs does not show thumbnails "for every image in an archive". It shows a thumbnail for the archive itself.

Based on what you've shown here, a thumbnail might be visible for Temp1_Microsoft_Wallpapers.zip when viewing the Temp folder in Explorer. If you were to extract Microsoft_Office_Icons.zip into Temp, then view Temp in thumbnail view, you'll hopefully see office_icons_01.png as the thumbnail for that archive.

I think you've found a couple of limitations of DarkThumbs:

  1. A thumbnail is not shown for an archive containing archives. I.e. a ZIP file containing an EPUB won't show a thumbnail.
  2. Explorer's "Extract" feature doesn't seem to talk to DarkThumbs.

I'll have to dig into those.

github-account1111 commented 2 years ago

DarkThumbs does not show thumbnails "for every image in an archive". It shows a thumbnail for the archive itself.

Oh haha my bad. I didn't understand the purpose of the program then.

I've just checked a cbz and rar file (both are books), and they do have cover thumbnails, whereas I don't think they did before. So I think it is working then.

Feel free to rename the issue to something more descriptive of the limitations you listed.

fire-eggs commented 2 years ago

Oh haha my bad. I didn't understand the purpose of the program then.

No problem! Is there some way I can clarify the readme to prevent possible confusion in the future?

fire-eggs commented 2 years ago

Thank you for the PR!