Re: image-dired-cmd-create-thumbnail-program

[email protected] Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:18:46 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
gfp <[email protected]> writes:

>
> How can I solve that issue comming up in opening dired?
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Executable named by 
> ‘image-dired-cmd-create-thumbnail-program’ (convert) not found or not 
> pertinent")
>    error("Executable named by `%S' (%s) not found or not pertinent" 
> image-dired-cmd-create-thumbnail-program "convert")
>   
> image-dired--check-executable-exists(image-dired-cmd-create-thumbnail-program 
> w32image-create-thumbnail)
>    image-dired-thumb-queue-run()
>    apply(image-dired-thumb-queue-run nil)
>    timer-event-handler([t 27165 25722 103734 nil 
> image-dired-thumb-queue-run nil nil 940000 nil])
>

In addition to the other replies on this question, you can
read the description of the ‘image-dired’ package by typing:

   C-h P image-dired RET

That will display a *Help* buffer with a brief description
of the package, including its non-Emacs prerequisites.  (As
it says in its TODO section, it still needs "More/better
documentation".)

If you have not read it already, the Emacs user manual entry
on Image-Dired can be read by evaluating the following
expression in Emacs:

   (info "(emacs) Image-Dired")

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