Re: Thumbnail re-rendering

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 10/12/04 

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:05:51 +0100

Inyazura1969 wrote:

>As a professional wildlife photographer I use thumbnail view to quickly
>browse my photos - about 7800 54MB files. It took many hours to generate the
>thumbnails.
>
>I have just completed a copy backup of all these files to external hard
>drives.
>
>I now have to re-render the thumbnails. I presume this is because the
>accessed file date and time attribute has changed.

The Thumbs.db file that holds cached thumbnails is a 'superhidden' file,
and it is most likely that your copy process did not include it. Have
Folder Options - View set to show Hidden files, and *not* Hide Protected
mode ones, and look for the thumbs.db in each folder concerned; copy
into the corresponding folder in the backup 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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