In my report I made a typo, this is what I said:

"Do not cache thumbnails above this size:"

That should actually read:

"Do not cache thumbnails below this size:"

I have since gathered some more data and found numerous reports of this, and 
one user seems to have found the commit that caused it:

https://github.com/lxde/libfm/commit/00120b795a811ae70db89dde5021461658f2880f

I have since made myself a band-aid consisting of a python script that runs 
once after bootup and properly caches all thumbnails over a given size, with a 
menu entry to run it during session if a lot of image files are added. But it 
is a band-aid, not a fix. I had intended to fix it myself, but then the GTK3 
version came out and I think it would be smarter for me to try and patch that 
version.

I understand what they were trying to do and there is some merit in it, at 
least for edge cases, but the implementation was wrong.

~greenjeans

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