Tiff (not jpg!!!) Thumbnails---Steve Parry to the rescue...?

[Guest]

After having suddenly lost image thumbnails for some but not all of my
tif/tiff's in Windows Explorer, I was able to get most back with KB192573 and
Steve Parry's registry merge link which worked great for jpeg's, jpg's, (and
even psd's, which were not among the file types listed!). I applied the same
procedure to tif and tiff formats even though they too were not on the list
of file formats included in the fix. It nevertheless worked fine for most,
but some of the tif/tiff thumbnails still show an icon instead of the image
while others are still all or partially solid black. This can be within a
single folder. I refer to tif files which used to have image thumbnails in my
Explorer. The partially black ones look as though a 'scanner' (?) stopped
somewhere along the way---it's always the upper part that is image with
differing amounts of the rest a solid black. Sometimes all solid black. The
images open fine in all programs and have image thumbnails in all other
viewers and browsers, so it's something in Windows Explorer. Hope Steve
Parry will read this...!

Thanks to anyone who can help. (I'm 2KPro, so please do not send me replies
which are only good for XP.) Thanks!

Janet

 

[George Hester]

Anything good for XP is also good in Windows 2000. In fact anything good in Windows 98 for this issue is also good in Windows 2000.

Sometimes TIFs are made in such a way that the thumbnail view cannot be generated. If you have set it up so that you see some TIFs as thumbnail then you've done all you can. The issue now becomes the TIF itself for those which don't display a thumbnail.

 

[Guest]

1) It is definitely not the case that anything good for XP is good for 2KPro.
For example, XP has a function that empies the thumbnail cache in one click.
In 2Kpro, I still don't know how to do this. I have often received XP
instuctions in this forum for which cannot be implemented in 2Kpro.

2) Please read my post again. The thumbnails which are problematic in
Windows Explorer show image thumbnails (ie, no problem) in other programs. So
the problem is not with the tifs.

Janet

 

[George Hester]

Janetb for this issue you are wrong. But you don't believe me. That's fine. The issue is still the tif if you can see at least one as a thumbnail view.

 

[Guest]

I agree it has to do with how the tiff was set up, but what I need to know is
what it is about these tifs that allows them to generate thumbnails in other
programs but not in Windows Explorer. The other interesting and relevant clue
is that these very same tifs used to generate image thembnails in Windows
Explorer as well!.

 

[George Hester]

It is how they are made not "setup." Let me see if I can find a good description of TIFs and the multitude of formats for them...here try this and you can get an idea abut them.

http://www.why-not.com/articles/formats.htm#TIFF

You might be able to open the problem TIF in Kodak Imaging (native to Windows 2000) amd save it as a different structure.