Vista thumbnails problem
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I am running Vista home premium and I have an external drive containing a lot of image files. When I browse to the drive in Windows explorer, all the images have exactly the same thumbnail even though they are different when opened. Windows seems to pick one of the images from the folder and use that thumbnail for every image. This is quite annoying when it comes to seeing what I have on the drive as they all look the same. I have tried clearing my icon cache using the cleanup in system tools. Is there anything else I can do? Does anyone know what could cause this problem? Thanks!
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I am running Vista home premium and I have an external drive containing a lot of image files. When I browse to the drive in Windows explorer, all the images have exactly the same thumbnail even though they are different when opened. Windows seems to pick one of the images from the folder and use that thumbnail for every image. This is quite annoying when it comes to seeing what I have on the drive as they all look the same. I have tried clearing my icon cache using the cleanup in system tools. Is there anything else I can do? Does anyone know what could cause this problem? Thanks!
Hi, if you tell Windows Explorer to show hidden files, you might find a "thumbs.db" and delete it. That may solve the problem. :)
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Hi, if you tell Windows Explorer to show hidden files, you might find a "thumbs.db" and delete it. That may solve the problem. :)
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Unfortunately not. Vista doesn't use thumbs.db and I have tried clearing its icon cache with no change.
Oh, i forgot. Google search[^] suggests killin explorer, deleting IconCache.db and even restarting PC. Never did that. :)
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Oh, i forgot. Google search[^] suggests killin explorer, deleting IconCache.db and even restarting PC. Never did that. :)
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I've tried all of those with no success so far. I'm trying to figure out how Vista decides which thumbnail to use, I think it may be some has or CRC of the file path but that doesn't explain how it picks the same one as the path must be different. This is really bugging me now!
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I've tried all of those with no success so far. I'm trying to figure out how Vista decides which thumbnail to use, I think it may be some has or CRC of the file path but that doesn't explain how it picks the same one as the path must be different. This is really bugging me now!
Hi Dan, just a wild guess: maybe Vista is by mistake taking the same icon for all files in a particular folder; try creating a new folder and moving some of the files in there. :)
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