Gregg, here are more specifics related to Terry's problem (and mine):
With Explorer open in any view, I click on a photo file to open Irfanview,
the viewer/editor I prefer. I crop and rotate, including custom fractional
degree rotations to compensate for less-than-perfect leveling of my
point-and-shoot camera. Then I save, replacing the original photo but
leaving the filename unchanged. From that point on (with Irfanview closed,
Explorer views changed and refreshed, and even with Explorer closed and
Windows XP restarted), the thumbnail shows the original unedited image. Only
individually right-clicking each image and selecting Refresh Thumbnail does
the trick. I agree with Terry that this is a design flaw.
While you are trying to reproduce our observations, this may be a factor: I
always change the columns in Explorer to view the date the picture was taken
instead of the default (inappropriate for photos) date last modified. I
alway sort on the date taken. I can't imagine that Explorer uses only
currently displayed file information to activate an automatic refresh, but
that may be one more thing for you to check.
Gregg Rivers said:
Hello Terry,
Was the Explorer window open when the picture was rotated? What program was
used to rotate the picture? What view is the Explorer window displaying
thumbs in (filmstrip, thumbnails, tiles, etc)? In looking at this issue,
the thumbnail was rotated either when I used Explorer to do the rotate or
when I launched Windows Picture and Fax Viewer from Explorer to do the
rotate.
Thanks,
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Terry Pinnell said:
I have a photo of a baby taken lying down, but I've since rotated it
90 deg for more convenient viewing. Yet in a My Computer folder its
thumbnail is shown in landscape mode, i.e. lying down. The status bar
information contradicts this by showing 594 x 925, and when opened in
any of several image viewers/editors, the photo is correctly displayed
in portrait mode, i.e. with the head at the top.
What can make the thumbnail display incorrectly please?
OK, thanks, minutes later I found the cause! But must say I find it
odd to have to refresh thumbnails manually. At the very least, I'd
have expected them to get refreshed either every time I used F5 to
Refresh the whole folder (which I'm in the habit of doing regularly),
or every time the folder is opened.
Or is there some point I'm missing here? Would anyone ever *not* want
thumbnails to have same orientation as the actual picture?
No one from MS here with any view on this please? IMO, it's a design
flaw. All my image browsers immediately reflect such edits and change
the thumbnail. Don't see any reason why Explorer/My Computer doesn't
do that, at the very least after a simple Refresh (F5). What added
value is there in a 'Refresh Thumbnail' command?