Perhaps folks in this group would spend time looking at thumbnails of images
they create.

I've got Win7 on a work-issued laptop. In failure analysis, I have to look at
directories of micrograph images that a technician has taken, and open a handful
of them for tweaking and resizing to go into a report. The technicians
thankfully take more images than I need for my reports, which enables me to
choose the best views, etc...

On WinXP, it was easy to see the thumbnails of all my images in a given folder.
On Win7, even if there were as few as a dozen images, it very frequently shows
me the first one or two, then stops. (This is of course in the Windows Explorer
with the option of showing "Extra Large Icons".  I know this happens when I go
to a Mapped Network Drive and IIRC may also happen at times with files on my
local C:.


Is this a bug / an asinine design poilicy (the first two are the same) / a
setting that can be unchecked / a IT policy of the host.

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On 21/08/2012 02:54 PM, gregjohn wrote:
> Is this a bug / an asinine design poilicy (the first two are the same) / a
> setting that can be unchecked / a IT policy of the host.

When I open a folder containing a few thousand individual frames for an 
animation, it shows thumbnails for all of them. It takes a ridiculous 
amount of time, however. (It seems to prioritise the pictures currently 
scrolled into view though.)

Weirdly, if I open a folder containing several GB of uncompressed AVIs, 
it displays thumbnails for the first few, and then (sometimes) stops.

I vote "bug".

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On 21/08/2012 11:54 PM, gregjohn wrote:
>
> Is this a bug / an asinine design poilicy (the first two are the same) / a
> setting that can be unchecked / a IT policy of the host.
>
>

There is a simple answer to anybody experiencing problems with Windows 
Explorer - Buy and install Directory Opus.  It is superb - rock solid 
and loaded with features.

I wince when I have to use a machine without it.

In particular there are no issues with showing thumbnails of images when 
there are hundreds or even thousands of them in a directory.

Then there is a preview pane, multiple directory lists, file and 
directory comparison / synchronisation, ftp client, image conversion 
tool (change format, size, rotation on single or groups of files), a 
whole macro language, batch rename with wildcards and so on.

It also avoids a lot of UAC nonsense.  Not all but it tones it down 
quite a lot.

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