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re: Win Me and 'Stop Windows from saving the thumbnail cache (THUMBS.DB)'
Sunday, February 23, 2003 at 2:30 pm
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Posted by jabuck (2274 messages posted)


Len,Try naming the thumbs.db to thumbs.db.old(or anything)and maybe photoshop wont use it and windows wont rebuild it---jabuck


On Sunday, February 23, 2003 at 1:31 pm, Len Gottesman wrote:
>I have a question about how to apply this advice to windows ME. Specifically, When
>I try to load a file from a directory into Photoshop 7.0.1 the entire program crashes.
>I have discovered that if I delete the hidden file "thumbs.db" from that folder,
>the program works fine until Windows automatically recreates the thumbs.db file again.
>This does not happen when I load a file from the same folder into Graphics Workshop
>for Windows, so the issue may be something in the interaction of Photoshop and WinME.
>I have not been able to find the place in Win ME where I can turn off the automatic
>creation of thumbnails.db. Stop
>Windows from saving the thumbnail cache (THUMBS.DB)
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Win Me and 'Stop Windows from saving the thumbnail cache (THUMBS.DB)' (Len Gottesman: Sunday, February 23, 2003 at 1:31 pm)

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-Win Me and 'Stop Windows from saving the thumbnail cache (THUMBS.DB)' (Len Gottesman: Sun, Feb 23, 2003, 1:31 pm)
*re: Win Me and 'Stop Windows from saving the thumbnail cache (THUMBS.DB)' (jabuck: Sun, Feb 23, 2003, 2:30 pm)
*re: Win Me and 'Stop Windows from saving the thumbnail cache (THUMBS.DB)' (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Feb 23, 2003, 6:29 pm)
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