How to force Nextcloud to regenerate a preview

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The issue you are facing:

I would like to regenerate a few preview for a file as it is distorted when it was generated by imaginary. I just want to regenerate a few by GD. I know I can regenerate all previews by

  1. delete the folder [NC data root]/appdata_????/preview
  2. run occ files:scan-app-data
  3. run occ preview:generate-all

But there are thousands of previews. I don’t want to regenerate all again. Not all of them are bad.
Is it possible to locate the preview of a particular file? I know the last folder of preview is the fileid column of filecache table. However, I cannot deduce the 7 hexadecimal folders before it. Could someone enlighten me how to generate them? Therefore I can delete the related folders alone and regenerate the previews by step 2 and 3 above.

Or is there an easier way?

Thank you in advance.