Dang Photo Printing

[Semaj Retnik]

Hi All.
That Photo Printing app that XP uses by default to preview
a photo before printing has given me fits.
A customer of mine was using it just fine for a while.
He gets fax-by-email so he gets alot of multi page tif's
and pics, etc as his attachments.
As I said, the preview thingy worked great until he got
around 4,000 images built up in his mail attachments
folder, and now, when he tries to open a new picture to
print (be it a JPG, faxed TIF, etc) it basically crashes
his computer as it tries to load THOUSANDS of pictures in
the attach folder. Its only a laptop for {insert your
personal deity here} sakes !! My Linux boxes might be
able to handle it, but even that is pushing it

NO, moving the pics would not be acceptable, as the only
way he can refer back to them in the future is via the
email, and if he moves the pic, the link in the email to
the pic breaks. It would be as good as deleting the file
for him.

Is there a registry hack or otherwise to STOP that darned
program from loading !4-5000+! pictures when all he wants
is the CURRENT one he opens via the link in the email?
A limit I can set somewhere say to 50 or 100 max perhaps?

It seemed like a decent addition for XP till this crap
happened.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let a a knowledgeable MS geek answer
this.
I dont need any "Move the files" "Go into Explorer and
find the file" blah blah blah. We want it to open ONLY
what he opens, and not try and load the whole damn
directory. The only acceptable workaround in this sitution
would be to limit what that thing opens by default. We
have tried other programs and he is "just not comfortable"
with those <groan>
If it was me, I would chuck that thing and just go with
PSP or PhotoShop and totally yank that photo previewer,
but it aint.... Its him and he is getting frustrated,
which in turn works on my nerves.

I am VERY knowledgeable of the registry (tried to find a
setting for it in there to no avail), so dont be shy about
having me to go into
HKLM\MSoftware\Microsoft\TheBloodyPreviewer\WhereverItLives
\ and adding a key/string/dword/etc.

Thanks.
SR

 

[John Inzer]

Have you tried emptying the TIF folder?

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[Semaj Retnik]

I said......
We dont WANT to empty the folder (C:\mail attach) because
then it would break the links in the email, he wouldnt be
able to find a certain document later on, and it would be
as good as deleting it for him (not being able to find it
ever again---the filenames are random from the fax-to-
email company).
What we want is (if at all possible by ANY means) to have
the program ONLY open the single file he opens, and NOT
browse the entire folder the file lives in (or be able to
set how many max it does see)

Thanks

 

[Yves Alarie]

I think you need to get your client organized here.
Why can't you just make a new folder
C:\2004_10_01 Mail Attach
and keep everything new there for the month of October and then make a new
folder
C:\2004_11_01 Mail Attach
for the month of November and then one every month.
This way your client will not have thousands of pictures in one folder and
he can get back to them easily because the folders will be listed in
chronological order.
As for the now overloaded folder, why can't you split this folder into two.
Make two new folders:
C:\2004_10_01 Mail Attach 0_ 2000 photos
C:\2004_10_01 Mail Attach 2000_4000 photos
Then copy photos 2000-4000 to one folder and rename the other folder to
0_2000 and delete the 2000 to 4000 photos from the original folder.

 

[John Inzer]

I said......
We dont WANT to empty the folder (C:\mail attach) because
then it would break the links in the email, he wouldnt be
able to find a certain document later on, and it would be
as good as deleting it for him (not being able to find it
ever again---the filenames are random from the fax-to-
email company).
What we want is (if at all possible by ANY means) to have
the program ONLY open the single file he opens, and NOT
browse the entire folder the file lives in (or be able to
set how many max it does see)

Thanks

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I'm not referring to the folder (C:\mail attach)...

As I understand the issue...your client is printing
by opening an attachment in an e-mail message...
which would open the file in Windows Picture and
Fax Viewer and then he would right click / print to
open the Photo Printing Wizard. If this is not the
issue then I apologize for trying to help you.

If I am correct...read the following....

The files you are seeing in the Photo Printing Wizard
when you attempt to print from an e-mail message...
are in your TIF (temporary internet files) folder. The
TIF folder should be emptied daily for good computer
maintenance.

Read the following articles:

(260897) How to Delete the Contents of the
Temporary Internet Files Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=260897

(310312) Description of the Disk Cleanup
Tool in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310312

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[Semaj Retnik]

Hi John,
I do appreciate any help on this.
No, when he opens a file by clicking in his email, it does
open it from C:\mail attach (We use Eudora and its set in
there). Im guessing your thinking of the way OE/Outlook
would work?
So when he hits the PRINT button, and goes through the
wizard, it sits there and tries to open/preview all 5000+
pictures in that folder. Being on a laptop with a fair
amount of resources (1.2G, 256M SDRAM, 60G HDD), it
basically chokes, throws the "Windows is increasing your
virt memory" blah blah blah, thrashes the drive doing
swaps, etc. And the way his "stuff" is organized is within
the Eudora mailboxes, but moving the attachments would
break the links in each mail.
FYI, I wrote a script that cleans out temp files and stuff
on each boot, and the Temp Inet Files stays fairly empty.

I talked to one person today, and they said there is some
setting to shut off the preview or instead of "preview"
open for edit and then it wont do the problem.
Ill be trying that tomorrow (well... later today )

Im betting there is an "unsupported" tweak buried
somewhere in the registry to fix this. I personally dont
have anything other than Win2K and RedHat, so I dont have
any XP boxes here to play with, and I dont like sitting on
his machine trying stuff, but we will look at the option I
described above.

Thanks for trying anyways

 

[Semaj Retnik]

He is fairly organized, just not in the windows folder
itself, and that is somewhat the problem.
He has all his emails organized in Eudora mail boxes, and
if we move ANY attachements, the links inside each email
will not work. With the way the emails come in from the
fax-email service, they are random filenames.
I have tried to move old stuff to a new subfolder, but
when he went to try to find an older fax (realtor) to
forward off to someone, he couldnt find it since the link
didnt work. And we tried wading through the old files
folder, but took forever... very inefficient.
Believe me, I have tried everything I could to workaround,
including loading a paint program to take over, but it
doesnt handle the faxed->email docs as good (the size
aspect (height/width) changes for some weird reason).

I do think that the wizard is a good program, and we want
to keep using it, but a setting to let the user decide
what to and not to preview would be AWESOME (anyone
listening up there in Redmond ;-) ). A simple setting of
DONT PREVIEW ENTIRE FOLDER, default off, but able to turn
on would be a godsend (just a 1 or 0 string in the
registry...)

 

[John Inzer]

Thanks for trying anyways

=======================
No problem. Maybe next time.

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[Wislu Plethora]

-----Original Message-----
He is fairly organized, just not in the windows folder
itself, and that is somewhat the problem.
He has all his emails organized in Eudora mail boxes, and
if we move ANY attachements, the links inside each email
will not work. With the way the emails come in from the
fax-email service, they are random filenames.
I have tried to move old stuff to a new subfolder, but
when he went to try to find an older fax (realtor) to
forward off to someone, he couldnt find it since the link
didnt work. And we tried wading through the old files
folder, but took forever... very inefficient.
Believe me, I have tried everything I could to workaround,
including loading a paint program to take over, but it
doesnt handle the faxed->email docs as good (the size
aspect (height/width) changes for some weird reason).

I do think that the wizard is a good program, and we want
to keep using it, but a setting to let the user decide
what to and not to preview would be AWESOME (anyone
listening up there in Redmond ;-) ). A simple setting of
DONT PREVIEW ENTIRE FOLDER, default off, but able to turn
on would be a godsend (just a 1 or 0 string in the
registry...)

What you want to do ain't gonna happen. If your client
wants to avoid the issue, what prevents him from right-
clicking on the attachment and doing a "save as" (which
would not remove the attachment from the message) to
a folder on his desktop and printing from there? If that's
not good enough, the client needs to just shut up, get
back to work, and live with it.

 

[Yves Alarie]

Long shot. These files may be in a sub-folder of the Internet Temporary
Files. The folder would start with OLK and then some numbers. Difficult to
navigate there. Instead do a search for OLK*
Once this folder is found, open it and see if the files are there and just
delete them.

 

[Yves Alarie]

Sorry, the above will not solve your problem. I have not used this printing
in quite a while, and some pictures were added to any folder about a year
ago, coming from the OLK folder. But this is not what is happening to your
client here.