Blender thumbnailss

[kirk]

I now see  Blender files thumbnails in Windows file  explorer.  And even able to see hierarchical keywords and credits.  I happened to persuade chat GPT to do me a python script that write those  into XMP  side files from Blender. 
But I still don't see the thumbnails in IMatch ?   

Should I? 

[Mario]

Which Blender version do you use on which Windows version?
Which warnings does IMatch log into the log file when you try to extract thumbnails?

I don't see Blender thumbnails in Windows Explorer (W11) and when IMatch uses 3 different ways to extract thumbnails for .BLEND files available as "Windows Shell thumbnail handlers", two return an error (unsupported format) and the last one is the fall-back to the application icon. So what I get in IMatch and Windows Explorer is this:

[Mario]

And after upgrading my Blender version to the latest 4.2.1 LTS and doing a Shift+Ctrt+F5 > Force Update on the sample blender files I have, I get:



What is apparently required is to register Blender as the default application for .BLEND files, like so:

[kirk]

I  do have same Blender version but Win10?  Can it be a reason?  My monster of a laptop with Nvidia 3800 gpu and i7 cpu  from couple years ago  says it doesn't meet minimal requirements for win11.    How can I check iMatch log?


Here is the addon if anyone need it:

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I have done it this time for you.

[Mario]

I just did what I explained and it works. Did you try to force an update of the files in IMatch. Did you register the latest Blender version as the default application for .BLEND files?
I don't have Windows 10 anymore anywhere so I can't experiment. It works just fine here.