Thumbnails on Network Drives by BParker

Posted byBParker on Sun Jan 17 15:06:01 CST 2010 •

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 'thumbs.db' is present, however I believe that they were copied
over from the USB Drive. When I create a new folder and place a photo into
it, a new 'thumbs.db' is not created.

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


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Thank you,
B. Parker


Re: Thumbnails on Network Drives by Twayne •


In news:91F84C8F-9793-4604-B660-0113D00D1DC3@microsoft.com,
B. Parker <BParker@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
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 'thumbs.db' is present, however I believe that they were
copied over from the USB Drive. When I create a new folder and place
a photo into it, a new 'thumbs.db' is not created.

Is there anyway to force the retention of the thumbnail information
on a network drive, similar to a USB External Drive, or Local Drive?
Keep them where they belong; in the folder where the images are. Anywhere
else is going to be slow, especially if it's over a lan connection.