I was connected to the internet today and so allowed Update Manager to run and apply the updates. There were several (maybe 10 or 12?). I did not write down what they were because after countless times of this app working perfectly, I had stopped doing so.
Everything seemed fine - at first. But then I went to my Videos folder and noticed that an .avi video file did not get a thumbnail created for it but instead just shows the generic film-reel thumbnail. I deleted my .thumbnails folder in hopes that it was just a glitch and that this would fix it. Not only did it not but I (of course) lost all of the thumbnails that the system had already created. I double-clicked on the video file and instead of the system running movie player I just got the busy globe for several seconds and then it was as if I hadn't double-clicked. I tried again with a known good video file - same result.
I also can no longer hover my mouse cursor over audio files and have the system automatically play them.
For both audio and video files, right-clicking on the file and telling the system to open the file with VLC works as normal - so I assume that it isn't a system-wide problem but, rather, something to do with Movie Player. (I don't recall a movie player update listed but this is not a sure thing as I only glanced at the list.)
Has anyone else had this problem today or within the last week or so (I was several days behind on updates)? Has a solution already been figured out? Is there an easy to "roll back the past week's worth of updates" so that I might try each one on at a time to find out which one caused my issue and then just refuse to allow it in the future?
Thank you. I've tried very hard not to screw up my system so that I did not have to bother everyone again. I was doing well for quite a while, but didn't think to worry about system updates. My apologies, lol.