Boy, you've told me a LOT!!
It's going to take a while for me to re-read and digest all of this.
Hopefully I'll learn a lot!
Thanks again for your trouble.
Doug
Hi Doug,
Picture folders have some options that other folders do not. In the
tasks pane are View as a slide show, Print pictures, etc., for example.
If, on the right click menu, Preview is listed first and in BOLD
letters, than double clicking a picture file will open Preview as the
default option. Preview usually opens the Windows Picture and Fax
Viewer, unless there is some third party application that takes its
place. If the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is open, the title bar
will say so. I.e. FileNameOfPicture.xxx - Windows Picture and Fax
Viewer.
If for some reason Edit were listed first and was in BOLD letters then
that would be the default action for double clicking a picture file.
When Paint is open, the title bar will say so. I.e.
FileNameOfPicture.xxx - Paint.
But, I'm still puzzled when I go to that folder, which I created,
using Windows Explorer and set the View to Thumbnails I can see the
complete image as it was before I made the resize.......
Refresh Thumbnail is another command on the right click menu for
picture files. Refresh Thumbnail only appears when in Filmstrip and
Thumbnail views. Select all of the thumbnails in your problem
folder(s), then right click and select Refresh Thumbnail. Or select
all of the thumbnails, click on File and select Refresh Thumbnail.
The thumbs.db file is probably corrupt. If that is the case it needs
to be deleted, it will be recreated.
The thumbs.db file is generated by Windows. It is a database file
containing
the small images displayed when you view a folder in Thumbnail View (as
opposed to Tile, Icon, List or Detail View).
Thumbs.db files contains the thumbnails for a particular folder.
Windows XP uses a compressed database file (Thumbs.db) to increase
performance. Supposedly.
Thumbs.db files are generated when you have Do not cache thumbnails
UNChecked in Folder options.
Open Folder Options...
Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
View tab | Do not cache thumbnails
Do not cache thumbnails means...
[[Disables automatic storage of folder thumbnails in a cache file. When
you
store thumbnail images in a cache file, Windows can reuse them instead
of creating new ones every time you open a folder. If you disable this
automatic storage function, folders that contain thumbnails might take
longer to open.]]
Thumbs.db files are Hidden files, so in order to delete them you need
to be able to see them.
Open Folder Options...
Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
View tab | Check: Show hidden files and folders |
Click Apply | Click OK
Hidden files and folders will appear dimmed to indicate they are not
typical items.
Now delete whatever Thumbs.db files are in whatever folder(s) with the
messed up thumbnails. You can either leave the Show hidden files and
folders the way it is when done or change it back, up to you.
For the life of me, I do not know what Microsoft was thinking when they
set
the default in Windows XP to HIDE file extensions.
As if this explains it: "Hides the last part of a file name, reducing
clutter in folder windows."
To show file extensions...
Start | Settings | Control Panel | Folder Options | View tab
UNCheck: Hide extensions for known file types |
Click Apply | Click OK
<quote>
For a variety of reasons you should make certain that your computer
always shows file extensions. Under Windows you can set the system to
hide extensions. This is dangerous as some malicious programs will send
executable files with a double extension in order to try to fool you
into thinking the file is not malicious. For example, if you receive
the file BADPROGRAM.TXT.VBS and have extensions turned off you would
only see BADPROGRAM.TXT and think that the file is a simple text file.
If you clicked
on it you would execute a script that could do anything.
<quote>
from...
General Information about File Extensions
http://filext.com/info/showthread.php?t=35
file name extension
[[File name extensions follow the period in a file name and indicate
the type of information stored in a file. For example, in the file name
Example.txt, the file name extension is .txt, which indicates that the
file
is a text file.]]
file type
[[In the Windows environment, a designation of the operational or
structural
characteristics of a file. The file type identifies the program, such
as Microsoft Word, that is used to open the file. File types are
associated with a file name extension. For example, files that have
the .txt or .log extension are of the Text Document type and can be
opened using any text editor. ]]
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In Doug Mc <
[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
Hi Wes,
Thanks for your very thorough response.
It may be that I was NOT using the "My Pictures" folder.
The pictures were in another folder that I created and (In Windows
Explorer) and I simply double clicked on the jpg image (View was
THUMBNAILS) and a large window opened with the options which you
described below on it (Image/Attributes/Resize, etc.)
This larger window with the options was the one on which I made the
changes. Seems to me that MyPictures folder has some special options
which the other folders do not have and that might have been my
problem.
But, I'm still puzzled when I go to that folder, which I created,
using Windows Explorer and set the View to Thumbnails I can see the
complete image as it was before I made the resize.......
But, this time, when I double click the image and get the larger
window the image shows only a small corner of the original image
-probably the number of pixels which I specified.
Do you have any thoughts as to:
1. Why I see the image as it was originally?
2. How I might retrieve the "complete" image that I see?
Thanks again,
Doug
Doug,
Thanks - but I don't understand MS Paint since I was in Windows
Explorer
when I resized it.
Then you have some option that I never heard of.
When you right click a picture file and click on Edit, usually Paint
opens to allow you to edit the file, unless you have some third party
program that opens instead.
If you right click on a picture while looking at it in the Windows
Picture and Fax Viewer and click on Edit, usually Paint opens to
allow you to edit the file, unless you have some third party program
that opens instead. It's the same if you select a picture file, open
the File menu in any
folder or in Windows Explorer and select Edit, usually Paint opens to
allow you to edit the file, unless you have some third party program
that
opens instead.
With Paint open, Attributes is opened from the Image menu on the
Paint toolbar.
From Paint HELP...
To change the size of your picture
1. On the Image menu, click Attributes.
2. Under Units, click the unit of measurement you want to use for the
width and height.
3. Type the measurements in Width and Height.
There is one option that maybe you're thinking of. If you right
click a picture file, point to Send To and click on Mail Recipient,
a resize picture option pops up, the Send Pictures via E-Mail
wizard. But that only resizes the file that you send.
<quote>
Windows provides a special feature for sending photos or pictures in
e-mail.
By providing the opportunity for you to reduce the file size of your
photo at the time you send it, Windows solves the problem of a large
file
attachment never reaching its destination. In addition to reducing
file size, this feature also changes the dimensions of the image so
that it fits
better on a computer screen.
You can change the settings to specify the size of the image. You can
make the size of the image smaller, but you cannot make a small image
larger. If
your picture is bigger than the largest size indicated in the dialog
box,
and you do not want Windows to reduce the size of the image, choose
to keep
the original size. Making changes to the settings for sending a photo
in e-mail does not alter the original picture.
<quote>
Windows can resize pictures you send in E-mail so that they transfer
faster
and are easier to view by the recipient.
To send a photo in e-mail
1 Open My Pictures, and then open the folder containing the photo
you want
to send in e-mail.
2 Click the photo you want to send.
3 Under File and Folder Tasks, click E-mail this file.
4 In the Send Pictures via E-mail dialog box, click Make all my
pictures
smaller.
Windows makes a smaller photo file and attaches it to an e-mail
message that displays a default subject and text message.
5 In the To box, type the e-mail address of the person to receive
the picture, change the subject and message text if you want, and
then click
Send.
Notes
* To open My Pictures, double-click the My Documents icon on your
desktop, and then double-click the My Pictures folder.
* Use this procedure for photos of file size greater than 64
kilobytes (KB).
To check the file size of your photo, right-click the file, click
Properties, and look at Size.
* To send the photo without reducing the size of the file, click Keep
the
original sizes.
* To change the settings for the size of the image, click Show more
options.
* If you have many pictures to share with others, you can publish
them to
the
Web instead of sending them in e-mail.
Or you can...
1 Open My Pictures and then open the folder containing the photo you
want to send in e-mail.
2 Right click the photo you want to send.
3 Point to Send To and select Mail Recipient.
4 Resize the picture or not.
5 Click OK.
6 Outlook Express Message opens with picture attached.
7 In the To box, type the e-mail address of the person to receive
the picture, change the subject and message text if you want, and
then click
Send.
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In Doug Mc <
[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
Thanks - but I don't understand MS Paint since I was in Windows
Explorer
when I resized it.
And, why can I see the image as if it has not been changed when I
set the View to thumbnails??
Doug
