QwertFixy Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 I apologize if this is trivial question. I'm looking for a graphic software, which will be able to preview pdn files in a form of thumbnails. Of course it would be nice, if instead it worked in the file manager since it is win-10 store application. Do you have any recommendation? I wish I missed something. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 File Explorer can already show thumbnails for PDN images because Paint.NET has a shell extension which does precisely that. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QwertFixy Posted January 29, 2020 Author Share Posted January 29, 2020 Thanks @Rick Brewster for your time. I'm running 4.2.8 (Final 4.208.7276.37737) - with a little donation I made couple days ago On my File Explorer I'm getting PDN icons (picture+brush). Is there anything wrong with my installation? Maybe I should reinstall Windows Store version? Thanks again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 It should just work. I have, however, noticed that it's inconsistent with images in my OneDrive folders. Sometimes it just doesn't work there and I don't know why. Also, things could be weird if you have both the Classic and Store versions installed. If you've got both installed then uninstall both and then install the one you want to use. 1 Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QwertFixy Posted January 29, 2020 Author Share Posted January 29, 2020 Thanks @Rick Brewster - you just made my day! I copied test folder to local Desktop and it shows the thumbs just fine. I'm not running store version yet - I prefer to be in control of the updates (as much as I can). I checked - the OneDrive files are even available locally, so this may be another issue with file explorer or file system. Thanks for the great program! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tertius Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 I had this thumbnail issue as well. At some point all my *.pdn files showed the default paint.net icon instead of a thumbnail, and I never found the cause. Today I got to the bottom of this. It's Onedrive files on demand. Thumbnail handling outside of a onedrive folder always works perfectly. Thumbnail handling within a OneDrive synced folder appears broken. It is connected with Onedrive Files on demand. If you activate files on demand (Onedrive settings->Files on demand), Windows explorer downloads thumbnails from the Onedrive cloud service instead of creating them from local files, even if the files are stored locally. The cloud service doesn't seem to have a thumbnail handler for *.pdn files, so no thumbnail is downloaded and the generic icon is displayed. Solution: deactivate Onedrive Files on demand in the Onedrive Settings app. Thumbnail downloading from the cloud is immediately replaced with local thumbnail generating. You see the difference immediately after you uncheck this setting. It's not enough to keep the setting active and mark *.pdn files to be stored locally ("always keep on this device" in explorer). Instead, it's necessary to actually uncheck this setting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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