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ROX-Filer image thumbnails size limit

June 14, 2026 — BarryK

We have been on a roll recently, enhancing ROX-Filer, especially due to forum member l0wt3ch. He has now implemented a size limit on image thumbnails, also removed some buttons to URLs that no longer exist.

If you right-click on a desktop icon, there is a menu, choose "ROX-Filer -> Options... -> Thumbnails" and this will appear:

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...there were previously two buttons to non-existent URLs. Now, there is a new checkbox, to enable thumbnails for image files over 64MB. The problem is, ROX consumes a huge amount of RAM, and time, trying to create a thumbnail for a very large image file.

Notice the "Show image thumbnails" checkbox. It defaults to off, but on the ROX window there is an "eye" icon; right-click on that to toggle thumbnails on or off, on a per-window basis.    

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