Help .thumbnail files

[dympz]

I have recently stumbled across the .thumbnail file on my Samsung Galaxy S5 device. When I click on it it shows a list of files all named movie_ then a series of numbers. Since I know I have no movies on my phone as I do not watch movies or stream movies on my phone this got me a little confused.

I clicked into the movie files and the each had a similar kind of link that when clicked upon said no apps can open this. The links are all similar beginning with a series of numbers then listview.lvl

This has me confused as I have not watched or streamed any movies.

Can anyone elaborate on this please?

 

[ironass]

I have recently stumbled across the .thumbnail file on my Samsung Galaxy S5 device. When I click on it it shows a list of files all named movie_ then a series of numbers. Since I know I have no movies on my phone as I do not watch movies or stream movies on my phone this got me a little confused.

I clicked into the movie files and the each had a similar kind of link that when clicked upon said no apps can open this. The links are all similar beginning with a series of numbers then listview.lvl

This has me confused as I have not watched or streamed any movies.

Can anyone elaborate on this please?

Hello and welcome to Android Forums dympz

These threads may shed more light on your problem...

[Q] Excessive Thumnails

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[dympz]

Hi ironass,

Thanks for your quick reply. I will have a look at the links but it probably will go straight over my head.

 

[dympz]

The post on excessive thumbnails seems to point in the same direction... He has stated the same movie files and contents as I see on my device

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaleReeck

Basically, off of the phone's storage, sdcard0, there is a hidden .thumbnails directory. In there is a folder for every single video I have on my external SD card. The folder is named "Movie_6xxx", where 6xxx is a number, like "Movie_6634". In that folder are 13 files for each video - 12 named "filename.0000.lvl" to "filename.0011.lvl", plus a 13th file named "filename.ListView.lvl".

A guy replied to him saying it is "animated", this is confusing to me... I have also found on Google that the .thumbnail is auto created and deleted after a certain amount of time, 6 months or so I think.

I don't know where I'm going with this.