Thumbnail view - captions vanished

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Terry Pinnell

I had about 380 JPG photos (and 5 sub-folders) in a My Computer
folder, in Thumbnail view, and they displayed as usual. But at some
point, after adding a few more files, all the captions disappeared.
Closing and re-opening the folder didn't make them reappear. Nor did
refresh (F5), resorting, File|Refresh Thumbnails, or anything else I
tried.

The subfolders look OK. And all other operations and views seem OK.
It's just the total absence of any text.

To carry on work, I've made a new folder and copied everything into
it. That displays the captions as usual. So I'll just delete the 'old'
one and rename this copy to the original name.

But I'm curious to know what may have caused this, if anyone has any
thoughts please?
 
Terry Pinnell said:
I had about 380 JPG photos (and 5 sub-folders) in a My Computer
folder, in Thumbnail view, and they displayed as usual. But at some
point, after adding a few more files, all the captions disappeared.
Closing and re-opening the folder didn't make them reappear. Nor did
refresh (F5), resorting, File|Refresh Thumbnails, or anything else I
tried.

The subfolders look OK. And all other operations and views seem OK.
It's just the total absence of any text.

To carry on work, I've made a new folder and copied everything into
it. That displays the captions as usual. So I'll just delete the 'old'
one and rename this copy to the original name.

But I'm curious to know what may have caused this, if anyone has any
thoughts please?
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Just had a fast response elsewhere, which has fixed it. Here it is for
anyone else who may have the same quirk sometime:
"Click on Views icon, then click List. Then click Thumbnails whilst
holding Shift and the captions/names will reappear."

Appreciated that, especially as I'd just found that as soon as I
renamed the copied folder back to the original name - all the captions
disappeared again! Is that neat caption restoration method documented
somewhere I've missed please?
 
David Candy said:
In tips in Tweakui, In my list of keys (attached).
Click to expand...

Thanks David. Guess I must have inadvertently held Shift as you say,
and XP then remembers that for the named folder.
 
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