Photoshop, XP Views in My Documents

Been having some problems lately with the way XP stores my PS images.

I generally keep my Photoshop renderings in the My Pictures subfolder
of My Documents, alternating between the Filmstrip and Thumbnail
views. Oddly enough, however, about 10% of the pix have the wrong
names in the miniaturized view; i.e., they have other file names, not
the ones they were originally given. Perhaps I've stated this badly.
What I mean is that about 10% of the file names do not accurately
represent the correct corresponding picture, but show something else,
a totally non-related picture.

In the larger viewframe names and pictures match; just not in the
smaller. This makes it difficult for me to access the pictures I want
from within Photoshop since the wrong name is attached to various
pictures.

Does anybody know how to correct this or why it is happening? Has
anyone else had this problem? I honestly think this is a problem with
XP, but since it involves how I utilize Photoshop, I thought I would
ask it here.

rik

Select them all, right-click, choose properties, then "refresh thumbnails"
or, turn off "hide hidden & system files" in the options for any Explorer
folder view, then go to your corrupted folder and delete the now-visible
thumbnail database file. Windows will generate a new one for you.


"rikstroeb" <rikstroeb@soleil.com> wrote in message
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> Been having some problems lately with the way XP stores my PS images.
>
> I generally keep my Photoshop renderings in the My Pictures subfolder
> of My Documents, alternating between the Filmstrip and Thumbnail
> views. Oddly enough, however, about 10% of the pix have the wrong
> names in the miniaturized view; i.e., they have other file names, not
> the ones they were originally given. Perhaps I've stated this badly.
> What I mean is that about 10% of the file names do not accurately
> represent the correct corresponding picture, but show something else,
> a totally non-related picture.
>
> In the larger viewframe names and pictures match; just not in the
> smaller. This makes it difficult for me to access the pictures I want
> from within Photoshop since the wrong name is attached to various
> pictures.
>
> Does anybody know how to correct this or why it is happening? Has
> anyone else had this problem? I honestly think this is a problem with
> XP, but since it involves how I utilize Photoshop, I thought I would
> ask it here.
>
> rik

BTW, the thumbnail database file is called thumbs.db. It can get
corrupted when you have Photoshop and Windows Explorer doing
things to the same folder at the same time. I find I can generally
avoid this and worse problems (like a corrupted file system) if I
never have an Explorer window open on the same folder where
I'm using Photoshop. And Photoshop and Windows Explorer
crash less often if I use the Photoshop file browser to open files
instead of Files->Open.

"SpaceGirl" <spaceNOgirlSPAM@subhuman.net> wrote in message
news:bg6qhc$l8r64$1@ID-129131.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Select them all, right-click, choose properties, then "refresh thumbnails"
> or, turn off "hide hidden & system files" in the options for any Explorer
> folder view, then go to your corrupted folder and delete the now-visible
> thumbnail database file. Windows will generate a new one for you.
>
>
> "rikstroeb" <rikstroeb@soleil.com> wrote in message
> news:1fkdivsiv5d8t7n09k7bo7i5mhvkfjv87p@4ax.com...
> > Been having some problems lately with the way XP stores my PS images.
> >
> > I generally keep my Photoshop renderings in the My Pictures subfolder
> > of My Documents, alternating between the Filmstrip and Thumbnail
> > views. Oddly enough, however, about 10% of the pix have the wrong
> > names in the miniaturized view; i.e., they have other file names, not
> > the ones they were originally given. Perhaps I've stated this badly.
> > What I mean is that about 10% of the file names do not accurately
> > represent the correct corresponding picture, but show something else,
> > a totally non-related picture.
> >
> > In the larger viewframe names and pictures match; just not in the
> > smaller. This makes it difficult for me to access the pictures I want
> > from within Photoshop since the wrong name is attached to various
> > pictures.
> >
> > Does anybody know how to correct this or why it is happening? Has
> > anyone else had this problem? I honestly think this is a problem with
> > XP, but since it involves how I utilize Photoshop, I thought I would
> > ask it here.
> >
> > rik
>
>

Or make sure you use the NTFS file system.

"Warren Sarle" <saswss@unx.sas.com> wrote in message
news:rnFVa.287177$nr.11986622@twister.southeast.rr .com...
> BTW, the thumbnail database file is called thumbs.db. It can get
> corrupted when you have Photoshop and Windows Explorer doing
> things to the same folder at the same time. I find I can generally
> avoid this and worse problems (like a corrupted file system) if I
> never have an Explorer window open on the same folder where
> I'm using Photoshop. And Photoshop and Windows Explorer
> crash less often if I use the Photoshop file browser to open files
> instead of Files->Open.
>
> "SpaceGirl" <spaceNOgirlSPAM@subhuman.net> wrote in message
> news:bg6qhc$l8r64$1@ID-129131.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > Select them all, right-click, choose properties, then "refresh
thumbnails"
> > or, turn off "hide hidden & system files" in the options for any
Explorer
> > folder view, then go to your corrupted folder and delete the now-visible
> > thumbnail database file. Windows will generate a new one for you.
> >
> >
> > "rikstroeb" <rikstroeb@soleil.com> wrote in message
> > news:1fkdivsiv5d8t7n09k7bo7i5mhvkfjv87p@4ax.com...
> > > Been having some problems lately with the way XP stores my PS images.
> > >
> > > I generally keep my Photoshop renderings in the My Pictures subfolder
> > > of My Documents, alternating between the Filmstrip and Thumbnail
> > > views. Oddly enough, however, about 10% of the pix have the wrong
> > > names in the miniaturized view; i.e., they have other file names, not
> > > the ones they were originally given. Perhaps I've stated this badly.
> > > What I mean is that about 10% of the file names do not accurately
> > > represent the correct corresponding picture, but show something else,
> > > a totally non-related picture.
> > >
> > > In the larger viewframe names and pictures match; just not in the
> > > smaller. This makes it difficult for me to access the pictures I want
> > > from within Photoshop since the wrong name is attached to various
> > > pictures.
> > >
> > > Does anybody know how to correct this or why it is happening? Has
> > > anyone else had this problem? I honestly think this is a problem with
> > > XP, but since it involves how I utilize Photoshop, I thought I would
> > > ask it here.
> > >
> > > rik
> >
> >
>
>

All of my hard drives are NTFS.

"SpaceGirl" <spaceNOgirlSPAM@subhuman.net> wrote in message
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> Or make sure you use the NTFS file system.
>
> "Warren Sarle" <saswss@unx.sas.com> wrote in message
> news:rnFVa.287177$nr.11986622@twister.southeast.rr .com...
> > BTW, the thumbnail database file is called thumbs.db. It can get
> > corrupted when you have Photoshop and Windows Explorer doing
> > things to the same folder at the same time. I find I can generally
> > avoid this and worse problems (like a corrupted file system) if I
> > never have an Explorer window open on the same folder where
> > I'm using Photoshop. And Photoshop and Windows Explorer
> > crash less often if I use the Photoshop file browser to open files
> > instead of Files->Open.
> >
> > "SpaceGirl" <spaceNOgirlSPAM@subhuman.net> wrote in message
> > news:bg6qhc$l8r64$1@ID-129131.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > > Select them all, right-click, choose properties, then "refresh
> thumbnails"
> > > or, turn off "hide hidden & system files" in the options for any
> Explorer
> > > folder view, then go to your corrupted folder and delete the
now-visible
> > > thumbnail database file. Windows will generate a new one for you.
> > >
> > >
> > > "rikstroeb" <rikstroeb@soleil.com> wrote in message
> > > news:1fkdivsiv5d8t7n09k7bo7i5mhvkfjv87p@4ax.com...
> > > > Been having some problems lately with the way XP stores my PS
images.
> > > >
> > > > I generally keep my Photoshop renderings in the My Pictures
subfolder
> > > > of My Documents, alternating between the Filmstrip and Thumbnail
> > > > views. Oddly enough, however, about 10% of the pix have the wrong
> > > > names in the miniaturized view; i.e., they have other file names,
not
> > > > the ones they were originally given. Perhaps I've stated this badly.
> > > > What I mean is that about 10% of the file names do not accurately
> > > > represent the correct corresponding picture, but show something
else,
> > > > a totally non-related picture.
> > > >
> > > > In the larger viewframe names and pictures match; just not in the
> > > > smaller. This makes it difficult for me to access the pictures I
want
> > > > from within Photoshop since the wrong name is attached to various
> > > > pictures.
> > > >
> > > > Does anybody know how to correct this or why it is happening? Has
> > > > anyone else had this problem? I honestly think this is a problem
with
> > > > XP, but since it involves how I utilize Photoshop, I thought I would
> > > > ask it here.
> > > >
> > > > rik
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>