Thumbnail Preview Problem Eric 7/2/2007 4:46:02 PM OK, this is a good one. I am running windows Vista Premium. I have a directory loaded with images that were all edited by Google Picasa. When I open the directory, I have it set to display the image icon as a thumbnail preview. In other words, the icon is a small picture of the image itself. Some of the image icons display the correct thumbnail preview image, but others just display the default "image file picture" and not a preview of the image (again, we are in the SAME directory). All settings are correct. Has anyone had this happen and does anyone have a solution? They are all JPG images and open correctly when on click on them (the images are not corrupt).

Re: Thumbnail Preview Problem Adam Albright <AA[ at ]ABC.net> 7/2/2007 5:06:36 PM On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:46:02 -0700, Eric <Eric[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >OK, this is a good one. I am running windows Vista Premium. I have a >directory loaded with images that were all edited by Google Picasa. When I >open the directory, I have it set to display the image icon as a thumbnail >preview. In other words, the icon is a small picture of the image itself. >Some of the image icons display the correct thumbnail preview image, but >others just display the default "image file picture" and not a preview of the >image (again, we are in the SAME directory). All settings are correct. Has >anyone had this happen and does anyone have a solution? They are all JPG >images and open correctly when on click on them (the images are not corrupt). More professional grade software such as Photoshop will likely show that not all your JPEG images are of the same flavor. There are many variations in this common file type that could be part of the problem. Another issue could be the routine that is generating the thumbnails may have difficulty generating a thumbnail on random files and just jumps over them to go on to the next ones. Also if you're in a larger folder with many files the thumbnails may not get generated in order. So you may see the first 30 or so, then just some placeholders, then some more actual thumbnails further down. If you move the scroll bar down, wait, then go back up Windows may have filled in some more actual thumbnails by this time. Yes I see this happen all the time, for sure it is annoying especially when later you can open the file and view it without issue. Post one of these problem files so others can see how it behaves on their system.

RE: Thumbnail Preview Problem BillMonty 7/4/2007 5:00:00 AM Another possible problem is that you may have installed or uninstalled a program that deleted the registry keys you need in order to view the thumbnails. I ran into the same probem with all 4,000 of my family pictures in .jpg format. Windows Vista Media Center would show the folders, but it wouldn't show thumbnails and it would show the folders as empty. Turns out that I had uninstalled Nero a few days before and the uninstall killed the registry keys that Media Center needed to recognize .jpg files. My .jpgs would open and be recognized in other programs, but not in Vista. There were only 2 solutions in my case and that was to either edit the registry to add back the missing keys or to do a complete re-install of Vista. I had to do a lot of google searches but I found the missing keys and was able to edit the registry.

RE: Thumbnail Preview Problem Tink 7/6/2007 2:14:04 PM I have a problem copying jpg or wma files from Vista to XP. The files are corrupted somehow in the process. I had better luck getting the files from Vista to XP using XP to do the copying. I think other file types might get corruped too. I have since dumped Vista and returned to XP. I will go back to Vista once I find an answer to this problem. Right now it is a show stopper. "Eric" wrote: [Quoted Text] > OK, this is a good one. I am running windows Vista Premium. I have a > directory loaded with images that were all edited by Google Picasa. When I > open the directory, I have it set to display the image icon as a thumbnail > preview. In other words, the icon is a small picture of the image itself. > Some of the image icons display the correct thumbnail preview image, but > others just display the default "image file picture" and not a preview of the > image (again, we are in the SAME directory). All settings are correct. Has > anyone had this happen and does anyone have a solution? They are all JPG > images and open correctly when on click on them (the images are not corrupt).