# Venture a guess as to why Rmagick / Imagemagick forgets to shrink thumbnail?

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**Created:** [August 30, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/venture-a-guess-as-to-why-rmagick-imagemagick-forgets-to-shrink-thumbnail/147301 "2008-08-30T17:49:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 30, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/venture-a-guess-as-to-why-rmagick-imagemagick-forgets-to-shrink-thumbnail/147301/1 "2008-08-30T17:49:05Z")

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I am running Rmagick and Imagemagick just fine on my Windows XP  
machine ( thanks Rick ) and all is well in the world.  
I’ve moved the identical source deck to another machine that appears  
to have an identical work environment ( pathing to imagemagic ) and  
the application saves photos just fine, but it doesn’t do the  
THUMBNAIL thing? The photo is left in its respective subdirectory of /  
images with the correct name ( photo\_thumb.jpg ) but it has exactly  
the same weight as when it was processed by Rmagick/Imagemagick.

Could someone venture a guess as to where I might look to explore this  
mystery?

Thank you,  
Kathleen