Thumbnails Not Showing Pictures

OneDrive has a feature called ‘files on demand’. This will upload your file to Microsoft’s servers, then delete it locally. Because of this, Windows cannot generate the thumbnails.

  • Right click OneDrive in the taskbar
  • Click ‘more’ and then settings.
  • At the bottom, if ‘save space and download files’ is checked, that is you problem.

If you uncheck it, you will see thumbnails again but OneDrive will re-download all files in the folder.

If it isn’t checked, try clearing thumbnail cache.

  • Click the start menu and search for ‘disk cleanup’ and click it
  • Select your C: drive and click OK.
  • Only select ‘thumbnails’ from the checkbox list.
  • Click OK and then Delete.

if neither of those work, I’m not entirely sure what could be the problem. Hope this helps.

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