topic How to regenerate failed content previews in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-regenerate-failed-content-previews/m-p/253564#M206694 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>some documents preview failed due to a problem on the server's file system where Alfresco runs on.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Now that's fixed, how can I regenerate those previews as when I try to preview any of them they are not available and the only option is to download the files.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:59:48 GMT ramalama188 2012-11-28T11:59:48Z How to regenerate failed content previews https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-regenerate-failed-content-previews/m-p/253564#M206694 Hi,some documents preview failed due to a problem on the server's file system where Alfresco runs on.Now that's fixed, how can I regenerate those previews as when I try to preview any of them they are not available and the only option is to download the files.thanks Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:59:48 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-regenerate-failed-content-previews/m-p/253564#M206694 ramalama188 2012-11-28T11:59:48Z Re: How to regenerate failed content previews https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-regenerate-failed-content-previews/m-p/253565#M206695 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>When a thumbnail/preview is requested it should automatically generate. If that fails fore some reason, the system will try a few times, then pause trying for a while. This is if you run 4.2 (maybe for 4.0, not sure there or when it was introduced in Enterprise)</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE># Retry periods limit the frequency with which the repository will attempt to create Share thumbnails<BR /># for content nodes which have previously failed in their thumbnail attempts.<BR /># These periods are in seconds.<BR />#<BR /># 604800s = 60s * 60m * 24h * 7d = 1 week<BR />system.thumbnail.retryPeriod=60<BR />system.thumbnail.retryCount=2<BR />system.thumbnail.quietPeriod=604800<BR />system.thumbnail.quietPeriodRetriesEnabled=true<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>If this is the case, they should start showing up in a week.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Also check that you documents have the correct mimetype, that is if your documents for some reason are set to binary mimetype, if so switch to correct mimetype.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:53:33 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-regenerate-failed-content-previews/m-p/253565#M206695 loftux 2012-11-28T14:53:33Z