Why can I not see thumbnails for the files I have imported from the Web Asset Browser?

Thumbnail generation requires access to the “temp” folders on your server-side disk. Please ensure that the default configured “temp” location on your server is write-accessible to the Zoom Preview server process and the related thumbnail generation tools that Zoom internally uses (such as FFMPEG, IMAGEMAGICK etc.).

Add the following line in your preview-server.conf to set up a new “temp” location to which the processes have write access to:

wrapper.java.additional.20=-Djava.io.tmpdir=..%WRAPPER_FILE_SEPARATOR%webcontext%WRAPPER_FILE_SEPARATOR%uploadedFiles

In general, for any thumbnail failure, you can enable additional logging by following the steps given in the article here

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