Anyone have crashes when viewing thumbnails?

[Guest]

When I'm in an Open window or even browsing my hard drive, if I select view
Thumbnails and there are a lot of pictures, 100+, I get an error message
saying that Windows has encountered and error and then I have to Ctr-Alt-Del
and manually close the window that's not responding anymore. It even does it
in Photoshop and Adobe Bridge (which is what that program is for!). It only
seems to happen with directories that have a lot of pics. I've got 3 gigs of
ram for Pete's sake. What could be causing it?

 

[John Inzer]

When I'm in an Open window or even browsing my hard
drive, if I select view Thumbnails and there are a lot of
pictures, 100+, I get an error message saying that
Windows has encountered and error and then I have to
Ctr-Alt-Del and manually close the window that's not
responding anymore. It even does it in Photoshop and
Adobe Bridge (which is what that program is for!). It
only seems to happen with directories that have a lot of
pics. I've got 3 gigs of ram for Pete's sake. What could
be causing it?

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Maybe the following steps will stop the crashing.

1) Open a folder that contains .jpg files...

2) Right click a .jpg file and choose Properties...

3) Click the Photoshop Image tab...

4) Uncheck the "Generate Thumbnails" button...

5) Click OK...


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[Guest]

For some reason, I don't have a Photoshop tab on the properties window.

 

[John Inzer]

For some reason, I don't have a
Photoshop tab on the properties window.

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Sorry, your version of PhotoShop may be
different. I think the issue was with version
6 or 7.

Maybe some maintenance would improve
the issue:

Running Disk Cleanup to delete Temporary
Internet Files may help. Running Error checking
and Defrag is important also:

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

Also the following article explains how to
empty the Temporary Internet Files folder:

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

And...the following info previously posted
by MVP Yves Alarie may be useful:

Files downloaded from the internet or e-mail,
may be in a subfolder of your Temporary
Internet Files folder.

The folder name will start with OLK and
there will be a number after OLK. The easiest
way to find this folder is to search for OLK*
and once found open it and see if the files
are there.

Click on Start and Search and then:
All files and folders
More advanced options
Search system folders
Search hidden files and folders
Search subfolders

In the top textbox "All or part..."
type in exactly this OLK*
and click search

This search will take a while but should
return all folders starting with OLK.

Open the folders, change the view to
Thumbnails and see if the unwanted files are
there. If so, just select them and delete. They
will go to your Recycle bin, delete them from
there also. Or, hold the Shift key down when
you delete them in order to prevent them from
going into your Recycle bin.

(315265) How to Perform Disk Error Checking
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315265
(check the two boxes..."Automatically fix file
system errors" and "Scan for and attempt
recovery of bad sectors") the utility will run
the next time you restart your computer.
(run error checking repeatedly until it finds
no errors)

(314848) How to Defragment Your Disk
Drive Volumes in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314848

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******John Inzer********
**MS Picture It! MVP**

*****Digital Image******
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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This is not tech support
........I am a volunteer.......

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you.

Proceed at your own risk.

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