Since I added a few new images to a picture folder in windows, some aren’t displaying correctly as thumbnails- they show up as a sort of stretched line. If I open them in windows photo gallery they do the same thing, although if I open them in internet explorer they do open correctly. They were all jpegs, all from the same source, and some saved at the same time show up as normal, so I can’t make any sense of it. Can anyone help?
It’s likely your thumbnail cache is corrupted.
To fix this in Vista: Goto "My Computer", right click on the drive the photos are stored and click "properties", then click on "Disk Cleanup". Put a Tick next to "Thumbnails" and then click "Clean up files". Go back to your folder where the photos are stored and press F5 on the keyboard, it should rebuild the thumbnails. If that doesn’t work then it simply doesn’t like the files and there isn’t much you can do.
For XP: In Windows explorer, press the alt key and it should being up the menu. Goto the tools menu and click "Folder Options". Click the "View Tab", and under advanced settings click on the "Show hidden files, folders, or drives" and also clear tick next to "Hide protected operating system files". Click OK, refresh the folder and then delete the thumbs.db file. Refrsh the folder again and it should rebuild the thumbnails.
February 21st, 2010 at 6:25 am
It’s likely your thumbnail cache is corrupted.
To fix this in Vista: Goto "My Computer", right click on the drive the photos are stored and click "properties", then click on "Disk Cleanup". Put a Tick next to "Thumbnails" and then click "Clean up files". Go back to your folder where the photos are stored and press F5 on the keyboard, it should rebuild the thumbnails. If that doesn’t work then it simply doesn’t like the files and there isn’t much you can do.
For XP: In Windows explorer, press the alt key and it should being up the menu. Goto the tools menu and click "Folder Options". Click the "View Tab", and under advanced settings click on the "Show hidden files, folders, or drives" and also clear tick next to "Hide protected operating system files". Click OK, refresh the folder and then delete the thumbs.db file. Refrsh the folder again and it should rebuild the thumbnails.
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