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My jpeg thumbnails are not what they're supposed to be (RESOLVED)

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When I'm editing I'm looking at my thumbnails a lot. But sometimes the thumbnails are not the picture they appear to be. I notice when I take a closer look to edit using Microsoft Office Picture Manager or just filmstrip mode. Sometimes I notice when I change the name of the picture and it magically changes back into the real one.

Another question is why some and not the others? I have over 20,000 pictures on my computer-almost all from a digital camera, some from scans-and this has only happened like 30 times.

But still enough to bother me.grrrrrrrrrrr It's very annoying if you're trying to edit, organize, name and rename pictures and you can't know what you're working with just by looking at the thumbnails.*grumble, grumble*

Simply put the thumbnails are wrong. I wonder if this is supernatural? Is my comp possessed and do I need and exorcist. If not, what do I need?

Any help would be appreciated. Oh, I have an eMachines T3256 with Windows XP Home.

Desperate,

John

PS The problem is contagious! I put the folder with all the pictures on a USB flash drive and moved them to another computer and those thumbnails are still not what they're supposed to be..
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Do you mean the thumbnails are pictures but just not the right pictures? (or an unknown file type icon)?

I had a similar problem with music files in WMP, I try to play one of them and it plays a totally different song, very annoying indeed.
Yep, still a picture but not the right one.=(
Do you mean the thumbnails are pictures but just not the right pictures? (or an unknown file type icon)?

I had a similar problem with music files in WMP, I try to play one of them and it plays a totally different song, very annoying indeed.
OMG, I think I have a winner. *ecstasy*

It was a simple thumbnail cache problem! All I had to do was click 'Do Not Cache Thumbnails'!!!!! *celebration*

It was extremely frustrating but I guess as computer problems go it could be worse. It wasn't a hard drive failure or anything.

But it *really* slowed down my progress that's for sure. The problem was not consistent, which only made it worse, I never knew when it would strike again. *horror*

I forever lost a couple pictures, thought I was deleting the "extra" one. Live and learn... lol

Johnny
For elaboration purposes to viewers/readers:

*In Explorer go to Tools>Folder Options (or from the Control Panel)
*Choose the View tab and you'll see the option of Do not cache thumbnails there..

..which will turn off your thumbnail cache so that one won't be shown on files/folders anymore.
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