From b17836f2325cb3a9bdfb3eebd62ba2e8b3a9c2c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Dodge <cdodge@edx.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:27:21 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] swallow exceptions when generating thumbnails

---
 common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/contentstore/content.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/contentstore/content.py b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/contentstore/content.py
index 7e70ced08e..d11c271ccc 100644
--- a/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/contentstore/content.py
+++ b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/contentstore/content.py
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ class ContentStore(object):
 
                 contentstore().save(thumbnail_content)
             except:
-                raise
+                pass  # thumbnails are ultimately optional
 
         return thumbnail_content