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title: "Generate missing previews"
slug: "generate-missing-previews"
updated: 2025-02-10T13:40:22Z
published: 2025-02-10T13:40:22Z
canonical: "documentation.encodify.com/generate-missing-previews"
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> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Generate missing previews

**Location**: *Site Configuration > Files > Generate Missing Previews*

Use this page to generate missing previews within the site by running and controlling a conversion process on selected media holders of a chosen Module.

![Missing_Previews.png](https://cdn.document360.io/3a63e0a8-1221-4570-aaa1-d43f9b95a612/Images/Documentation/missing_previews.png)

*To generate missing previews, follow these steps:*

1. In the *Module* list, select the Module containing the file(s) that you want missing previews to be generated for.
2. In*Order by*list select attributes (ID, Created By etc) or fields (Text field) and direction (ASC/DESC) to specify order of generating previews.
3. In *Media Holder* selectbox - specify the Media File Holders where the missing previews should be generated
4. Click *Generate Missing Previews tab to run Media Converter to generate previews*

To monitor ongoing conversion processes, click the *Ongoing Jobs*tab. The figures in the Progress column next to the progress bar show the number of files with generated previews vs. the total number of files undergoing preview generation at the moment. If you want to stop a preview generating, click the *Stop* button to the right of the progress bar. This will interrupt the conversion so only files converted by that moment will be found in the specified target Media Holders. \

You can have multiple conversion processes, involving several Modules, running simultaneously.