On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:23:38 GMT, "G Hardy"
wrote:

How did you manage to confuse the Thumbnails system? Were you
renaming files?

Sometimes, thumbnails don't show (you just get the icon).

I've had situations where the wrong program icons are shown for files (only
happens on my Photoshop PC).

What, despite selecting Thumbnails in the View menu?

When the wrong icon shows for a particular file, does it try to open
in the wrong program? Or in a different one than expected?

"Laurence Payne" wrote in message
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:23:38 GMT, "G Hardy"
wrote:

How did you manage to confuse the Thumbnails system? Were you
renaming files?

Sometimes, thumbnails don't show (you just get the icon).

I've had situations where the wrong program icons are shown for files
(only
happens on my Photoshop PC).

What, despite selecting Thumbnails in the View menu?

I'm on another digital video list, and we're trying to work out what it is
that makes some JPG thumbnails show in Windows Explorer, while others don't.


When the wrong icon shows for a particular file, does it try to open
in the wrong program? Or in a different one than expected?

Yep - the correct application opens the file, it's just the icon that's
wrong

"G Hardy" wrote in message
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"Laurence Payne" wrote in message
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:23:38 GMT, "G Hardy"
wrote:

How did you manage to confuse the Thumbnails system? Were you
renaming files?

Sometimes, thumbnails don't show (you just get the icon).

I've had situations where the wrong program icons are shown for files
(only
happens on my Photoshop PC).

What, despite selecting Thumbnails in the View menu?

I'm on another digital video list, and we're trying to work out what it is
that makes some JPG thumbnails show in Windows Explorer, while others
don't.



The only Jpegs that explorer can not display are Jpeg 2000(.jp2). So they
must be a differant format that has had the extn changed



When the wrong icon shows for a particular file, does it try to open
in the wrong program? Or in a different one than expected?

Yep - the correct application opens the file, it's just the icon that's
wrong

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:59:19 GMT, "G Hardy"
wrote:

What, despite selecting Thumbnails in the View menu?

I'm on another digital video list, and we're trying to work out what it is
that makes some JPG thumbnails show in Windows Explorer, while others don't.

The extension JPG doesn't guarantee that the file is in fact a
standard JPG :-) Perhaps you've found a JPEG2000 file. Where did
the problem files come from?

There's a similar situation with audio files. The WAV extension may
be applied to a plethora of formats, sometimes it even disguises a MP3
file! Even if it IS a wave file, it may have various sample rates
and bit depths. Musicians are now fairly standardised on recording
24-bit Wav files. A surprising number of utility media players
(including Windows Media Player) won't play these. To get a
quick-and-dirty playback of our recordings we have to install
Quicktime player.

Laurence Payne wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:55:07 GMT, Ben Thomas
wrote:


I agree, and I don't trust those programs not to lose some of my photos. At
least if I'm using windows explorer to organise my files I know exactly where
they are. ALthough once the thumbnails were not showing me what the files
actually were.


How did you manage to confuse the Thumbnails system? Were you
renaming files?

I'm not sure. Rebuilding the thumbnails using a menu option fixed the problem
though.

Ben

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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:23:38 GMT, "G Hardy"
wrote:

How did you manage to confuse the Thumbnails system? Were you
renaming files?

Sometimes, thumbnails don't show (you just get the icon).

I've had situations where the wrong program icons are shown for files
(only
happens on my Photoshop PC).

What, despite selecting Thumbnails in the View menu?

I'm on another digital video list, and we're trying to work out what it
is
that makes some JPG thumbnails show in Windows Explorer, while others
don't.

The only Jpegs that explorer can not display are Jpeg 2000(.jp2). So they
must be a differant format that has had the extn changed


I'll look into that. These files all have a jpg extension and open in M$
Photo Editor, IE and Firefox, and (of course) Photoshop.

It's not down to resolution, either. I get web buttons that display in Win
Explorer's thumbnail mode, as well as 12MP images from my wife's digital
camera.