Folder Problem
I seem to have a problem with one or two of my folders in My Pictures. The small thumbnail in the folder shows the picture that should be there, but when I open it, it shows a completely different picture of another JPEG (which is elsewhere in the folder) Does anyone know why this would be happening?
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Turn on 'Show hidden files' in your advanced folder options.
In every folder that has thumbnailed pics, you will now find a semi-transparent file called 'thumbs'. This file contains the thubmnail allocation for that folder.
Delete that file.
It wont hurt anything. Next time you access that folder it will create a new copy of 'thumbs' and allocate a new set of thubmnails (hopefully the correct ones this time)
If that doesn't do it, let us know.
I recently burned JPEG' s to CD and then transferred them back to my comp.
Do you think it might have something to do with this? I was asked a question when I was burning the JPEG's. I cant remember exactly what the question was, but it was something to do with Thumbs db. I think the three choices were yes, no and skip. I cant remember what option i pressed but if it was the wrong option I pressed could this have somehow caused the corruption in my folder?
Sometimes, transfering files to a CD, than back again can cause those files to remain in 'read-only' format (and I suppose that could cause this problem, but I'm not sure how off the top of my head), but I don't think that it's indicative of any bigger problem, nor do I think you are in danger of loosing your files, so it's really not too much to be concerned about.
Personally, I turn off thumbnails because it wastes space of the drive to store those extra files (and they aren't that useful in my opinion).
I just remember what's in each file by it's name (or by activating each one