Thumbnails on Network Drives

[B. Parker]

I'm using XP Pro, SP3.

I used to keep my photos on a USB external drive. Everytime I opened
folders on that drive the thumbnails appeared instantaneously.

I moved my photos to a network drive mass storage device, using RAID1.

Now, when I open a folder, the thumbnails have not been retained and need to
be rebuilt - which in my case (hundreds of photos, in TIFF format) literally
takes hours for some folders.

The file 'thumbnails.db' is present.

Is there anyway to force the retention of the thumbnail information on a
network drive, similar to a USB External Drive, or Local Drive?

 

[B. Parker]

Update - I created a new folder and copied a file into it. The folder did
not generate a 'thumbs.db' file. The other thumbs.db, must have been copied
from the USB drive, but is not being updated with new files.