You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Forum Discussion
Video thumbnails not loading for 'available offline' videos on Windows 11
I am running drobox on a newer windows 11 computer and have all my files set to download and be available offline.
In most my video folders thumbnails show for image files but not for video files. If I move this files out of dropbox (say to an external drive) the thumbnails load just fine. Therefore I am guessing this might be a dropbox issue. Some, but not all, of them do load after awhile.
Are there any settings I can change to get my thumbnails to populate?
Thank you.
So after further search this appears to be a problem with .mov files (iphone) and not dropbox. The default windows media player doesn't play nice with the .mov files and therefore doesn't generate thumbnails. I followed the solution below and it worked. other options of downloading a more .mov friendly media player and setting it to the default might also work.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-are-some-mov-files-showing-thumbnails-in-win11/5fb6dbe1-90bc-493c-b984-8b071f11d164
So after further search this appears to be a problem with .mov files (iphone) and not dropbox. The default windows media player doesn't play nice with the .mov files and therefore doesn't generate thumbnails. I followed the solution below and it worked. other options of downloading a more .mov friendly media player and setting it to the default might also work.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-are-some-mov-files-showing-thumbnails-in-win11/5fb6dbe1-90bc-493c-b984-8b071f11d164
- Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Thanks for reaching out to us, GrumpGrump.
I'm glad you were able to locate and resolve your previews issue.
If you have any questions, or need anything else, please let us know.
- T_theresa_A
Community Manager
Hi GrumpGrump I am glad to see you got the thumbnails for you .mov files showing once again on your device 🙌. Thanks so much for coming back to the Community to let us know that you resolved your issue and provided steps for people who may run into this issue in the future (it's people like you who keep our Community such a wonderful place 🤗).
By the way, I’m Theresa, a Community Manager here at Dropbox HQ 👩💻. If you’re willing to share, I’d be really interested to learn about your daily use of Dropbox and the features you find most useful 💫.
Who knows, we might even find some cool tips to level up your productivity 💪!
Looking forward to hearing from you,
T 😺(Dropbox Community Manager)
