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Sproo
This is really, really odd.
I rebooted earlier (Explorer process was bloated, over 300M with only 8
open windows) and since then there's been an odd behavior where
sometimes clicking does not produce the expected selection semantics.
When this starts happening, tapping the Shift key once returns things
to normal.
Except that on one occasion where this occurred, in a directory full of
photos, the filenames disappeared! The folder view shows a grid of
thumbnails -- that is all. The filename isn't shown beneath a
thumbnail, or anything. If I change the view to "tiles" I get the
expected -- icons left of data including filename and dimensions. If I
change it back I get thumbnails, but no filenames.
Here's the really odd thing. I know that Explorer saves some data
associated with each directory, such as how you viewed it last; moving
or renaming the directory normally deletes this data, as evidenced by
making a folder and dropping in a single image then entering it (should
come up as Filmstrip), changing the view to Thumbnails, and then
renaming the directory (normally changes to Filmstrip again).
With this directory that has somehow become b0rked, however, if I
rename it it reverts to thumbnails view with filenames, but if after a
while I rename it *back* the filenames disappear! It doesn't seem to
delete the saved data at all, but rather to associate it with the old
directory name/location after a rename/move. If you move it back the
data applies to it again, and presumably if you create a whole new
directory with the name, ditto.
This presents a serious problem: I need the names displayed in
Thumbnail view in this directory; I strongly prefer not to move or
rename the directory permanently; but there seems to be no way to get
the names back otherwise -- changing view and back doesn't do it,
renaming the directory and back doesn't do it, "refresh" doesn't do it,
I'd rather not do it but I doubt rebooting would do it (it doesn't make
it forget if I changed a directory from Filmstrip to Thumbnails after
all), and I don't see any Preferences option or Folder Options option
to get (or hide, for that matter) the filenames (aside from Choose
Details, which has Name checked!) ...
Incidentally, in the affected directory the filenames also don't show
in Filmstrip view.
I rebooted earlier (Explorer process was bloated, over 300M with only 8
open windows) and since then there's been an odd behavior where
sometimes clicking does not produce the expected selection semantics.
When this starts happening, tapping the Shift key once returns things
to normal.
Except that on one occasion where this occurred, in a directory full of
photos, the filenames disappeared! The folder view shows a grid of
thumbnails -- that is all. The filename isn't shown beneath a
thumbnail, or anything. If I change the view to "tiles" I get the
expected -- icons left of data including filename and dimensions. If I
change it back I get thumbnails, but no filenames.
Here's the really odd thing. I know that Explorer saves some data
associated with each directory, such as how you viewed it last; moving
or renaming the directory normally deletes this data, as evidenced by
making a folder and dropping in a single image then entering it (should
come up as Filmstrip), changing the view to Thumbnails, and then
renaming the directory (normally changes to Filmstrip again).
With this directory that has somehow become b0rked, however, if I
rename it it reverts to thumbnails view with filenames, but if after a
while I rename it *back* the filenames disappear! It doesn't seem to
delete the saved data at all, but rather to associate it with the old
directory name/location after a rename/move. If you move it back the
data applies to it again, and presumably if you create a whole new
directory with the name, ditto.
This presents a serious problem: I need the names displayed in
Thumbnail view in this directory; I strongly prefer not to move or
rename the directory permanently; but there seems to be no way to get
the names back otherwise -- changing view and back doesn't do it,
renaming the directory and back doesn't do it, "refresh" doesn't do it,
I'd rather not do it but I doubt rebooting would do it (it doesn't make
it forget if I changed a directory from Filmstrip to Thumbnails after
all), and I don't see any Preferences option or Folder Options option
to get (or hide, for that matter) the filenames (aside from Choose
Details, which has Name checked!) ...
Incidentally, in the affected directory the filenames also don't show
in Filmstrip view.