My Pictures Problem

The thumbnail pictures in my My documents folder have vanished. I have to click on preview to see the pictures. Everthing in the rest My Documents is there. All the pictures in folders in My Pictures are there too.

 

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Line 17, second column.

 

It is the jpegs that are the issue. There is no box for jpegs on the tweak.

 

Go to My Computer-Tools-Folder Options.

Click on the File Types tab. Delete the file association for jpeg. It will rebuild with the default MS associations.

 

I found the registered file types. There are three JPEGs. Should these be deleted? When I started to delete them a box warned that I wouldn't be able to open any JPEGs.

 

Well, if you feel nervous, make a system restore point first.

As for which to delete...check the file extension of that which doesn't show the thumbnail.

 

Also understand that I wouldn't reccomend something extreme like this if I hadn't tried it on myself first.

Its safe.

Honest

If it doesn't rebuild immediately, then double click and open a jpg and it will.

 

I just needed to know if file types and associations were the same. I deleted the three JPEG icons in the file types box and it looks like they were rebuilt since they appeared again. But I still have no pictures on the thumbnails in My Pictures, just the icons.

 

You do have the view set to thumbnails, right?

 

Of course! The problem started yesterday when I uninstalled Picassa. Picassa was freezing up and when I took it out the file pictures were gone.

 

I ran the Start>Run sequence. A box reported that it had succeeded and the system froze. I had to reboot. Where is "Image files" so I can right click and how do I get to the My Pictures folder so I can delete thumbs.db. I have the hidden files showing.

 

I used Search to find and delete the thumbs file but there is no difference.

 

Is this problem too big for MG.

 

Another thought....

Are these extensions ending with .jpeg or .jpg?

If .jpeg, try renaming them to .jpg.

Or just one of the extensions. To see if this works.

In addendum...what windows OS are you running?

 

I am running XP. They are jpg files. If you read my posts you know that after uninstalling Picassa pictures stopped downloading.

 

Yes, I read them. Just wanted to note that there are .jpeg extensions and also .jpg extensions.

 

There all .jpg. A number are also .gif.

 

The XP tweak worked. I removed the AVI extensions and voila all thumbnails restored and saves worked. I did some research and found that this is a common issue when there are avi fles stored. Interestingly, I had tried a clean boot but I suppose that has nothing to do with the file extensions. I'll repost the link here for anyone who came in in the middle and has the same issue:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm Line 17, right column.

Thks again.