Removing thumbnails from Photo Printing Wizard

[martin]

Hundreds of thumbnails have accumulated in my Photo
Printing Wizard. These are past photos that I have opened
but not necessarily printed. The photos are long deleted
from my hard drive, but the thumbnails linger on. It
would be nice to remove them.

Anyone know how to do this?

 

[Yves Alarie]

First use Disk clean up. If this does not work, post again and tell us if
these photos were files downloaded from the Internet or not.
Go: Star>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk clean up.

 

[MARTIN]

There are several types of files to 'clean up' in that
tool. Some are checked by default. Others are not. Which
one(s) would applicable to what I am trying to do?

 

[Yves Alarie]

Take all the default options. This will not create a problem on your
computer.

 

[martin]

That didn't work. The thumbnails are still there. Any
other ideas?

 

[Yves Alarie]

If these are files downloaded from the internet or e-mail, they may be in a
subfolder of your Internet temporary files. The folder name will start with
OLK and there will be a number after OLK. The easiest way to find it 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
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.


If these are from camera or scanner.
You can search for all the thumbs.db files.
Just click on Search, All files and folders and type in
thumbs.db
when they are listed, select the details view to get an idea about each and
right click on appropriate ones and select open folder where located and see
what you have in the folder.

 

[martin]

That worked! Thank you.

-----Original Message-----
If these are files downloaded from the internet or e- mail, they may be in a
subfolder of your Internet temporary files. The folder name will start with
OLK and there will be a number after OLK. The easiest way to find it 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
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.


If these are from camera or scanner.
You can search for all the thumbs.db files.
Just click on Search, All files and folders and type in
thumbs.db
when they are listed, select the details view to get an idea about each and
right click on appropriate ones and select open folder where located and see
what you have in the folder.




.

 

[Yves Alarie]

Good, we just had to do a little more digging.

That worked! Thank you.