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How do I enable thumbnails for text files in nautilus?

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I used to have thumbnails for text files in Nautilus but I don't have them anymore. I'm on Ubuntu 12.10, I haven't disabled them as per How to stop Nautilus from creating thumbnails of specific file types? and they are displayed for other file types like pdf and videos.

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answered 3 Years ago antorchestr · Accepted Answer

This is a bug. As all the icons in question were all in a Ubuntu One synchronized folder, the live text preview (which works differently for text files and for other filetypes, hence the inability of scripts to regenerate thumbnails to make thumbnails of text files) does not work because Ubuntu one uses emblems and they break the live text preview.