Re: can't find digi pictures i have saved

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From: colin (colin_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/10/05 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:11:04 -0800

thanks... i thinkit is quite likely that you have a junior johnson...

"Raymond J. Johnson Jr." wrote:

>
> "colin" <colin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C83FC011-35B3-49E3-B160-4EA3BE3909EA@microsoft.com...
> | I am trying to print some pictures saved on my computer. When I open the
> | folder that has them and look at them as a thumbnail view, I can see all
> of
> | my pics. The problem is that for ONLY ONE of the pics, double clicking on
> | the thumbnail gives me a large window with a different picture. I really
> | need access to both pictures and have tried lots of stuff to get them each
> | individually.
> | 1 - filmstrip view gives me the same issue... when the picture I want is
> | highlighted, the large picture does not match the thumbnail.
> | 2 - double clicking the thumbnail to view in Microsoft Photo Editor...
> | again, I get the second picture.
> | 3 - I am setting hyperlinks from an Excel sheet to display these
> pictures...
> | using the filename of the thumbnail sends me to the other picture when I
> | click the link.
> | 4 - number 3 reminds me... checking out the properties of this .JPEG file
> | from both right cliking on the thumbnail of the correct picture and right
> | clicking on the wrong picture in Microsoft Photo Editor show me that BOTH
> | pictures have the same file name.
> | 5 - I highlighted the correct picture in the thumbnail and tried a Print
> | Screen and pasted it into Microsoft Word... surprised to find the wrong
> | picture again.
> | 6 - I tried renaming the files from both the thumbnail and the large
> picture
> | in Photo Editor, but this only replaces the correct picture in the
> thumbnail
> | with the wrong one.
> |
> | How can I get at BOTH of the pictures seperately???
> | --
> | colinpearson
>
> All of your messing around may have prevented any real help at this point.
> Try deleting the thumbs.db file in the folder where the picture(s) in
> question is/are (disregard the ensuing system file warning). Then close the
> folder and open it again, and see what happens.
>
>
>

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