When will you build thumbnails automatically?!

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
October 11, 2020
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So many years of development, and LR still only renders grid view thumbnails for the visible screen area! Isnt it obvious that we need thumbnails FOR ALL images without the workaround of building previews.
same goes for LR mobile.
What are your guys getting paid for at the usability department, I cant guess! Oh, well, they havent yet solved the lags in grid view scrolling on hi res mac displays, so how dare I ask for self-generating thumbnails

Feature request

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Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

When I import my photos to Lr-Classic, I sit back with a coffee and allow Lr to build Standard or 1:1 previews as they import.

I never see Previews needing to 'build' as I scroll in Grid view.

(When I say "never"- I have seen this once after deleting the previews cache file, but only then)

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .

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KatrinochkaAuthor

Known Participant

If you have a hundred thousand images in you library, you may not want to create previews for all of them at once. There are many use case scenarios where you end up with a grid view of empty thumbnails and it is very stupid to not build the thumbs automatically.

P.S. What do you do with the same issue in LR mobile?

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

In Lightroom Classic you can force a build of previews. Select the images, then choose 'Library - Previews - Build Standard-sized Previews'.

Lightroom Mobile should not show empty thumbnails when it's fully synced, but storing smart previews locally helps if you use it without an internet connection.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

This is a user-to-user forum. We are not Adobe. For feature requests, go to https://feedback.photoshop.com. Search for your feature request first. If it is already requested by someone else, then don't create a new thread but add your vote to the existing request.

-- Johan W. Elzenga