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| I'm having a problem with thumbnails in a giant folder of video files eating up so much cpu (loading the thumbnails) when I open the folder that it's pretty much unusable--takes 10 minutes to load them, then media player freezes. I have a dual core 2.4 ghz with 3 gigs of ram. What I'm wondering is if there's some way to set thumbnail options for certain types of files or certain folders only. When I selected "always show icons, never thumbnails" (Organize/Folder and search options/view, top option) the problem went away and performance was good. The problem is, that setting affects all files in every folder on the computer, including both hard drives and all types of media. This is a pain for jpegs in particular, to not be able to see what they are.
Is there a way to...
a) set folder options specific to a folder which do not affect other folders
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b) set thumbnails to load on jpegs but not video files
thanks in advance for helping me solve this annoying problem.
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| | I played with some settings, and think I found a fix that will disable the thumbnails in that folder only. Right click on the folder, select Properties, then the Customize tab. Under Use This Folder Type as a Template, change it to Documents. That eliminated the thumbnails when I tested it on my computer on a folder that contained jpegs. |
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| | Thanks for the suggestion. It doesn't appear to work for the folder containing video files such as avi, wmv, etc. which is what is causing the problem. |
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| | Are you navigating to the folder using Windows Explorer, or Windows Media Player? |
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| | I'm navigating to it using windows explorer, I guess, by going through My Computer to the drive where the folders are. |
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| | In your original post you said you navigate to the folder, then media player freezes. Can you explain? |
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| | What I mean is that when I open this folder that is full of video files, the files very slowly start to refresh thumbnails (there is 140 gb of video files there). It seems like the thumbnails eat up all my cpu power. If I click on a video file, once in a while it will start up, but often it freezes in the media player and will not start. If I disable thumbnails the problem goes away, but then I can't see what my jpegs are since those settings (no thumbnails) affect every folder on the computer. That's why I was trying to just disable for the video files, which seem to be the main culprit. |
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| | OK I got it now. I tried the fix that I suggested in my first post, on a folder with .wmv files. When I designate the folder as Documents or All Items, it disables thumbnails. Not sure why it would not be working like that for you. Maybe someone else has an explanation. I'd try doing some experimenting with that setting if I was you. Create a new folder, copy one video file into it, see if you can disable thumbnails with that setting. |
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