Windows 7 Icon View

[olds]

When I enter my pictures folder, I see a Photoshop icon for images till I scroll down the page and then the icon turns into a thumbnail view.

Is there a way to force Windows to always load the thumbnail view so I don't have to wait for the image to render?

 

[corkyg]

I beiieve so. My Win 7's Explorer lets me bavigate to a folder of photos. In the Menu bar, you can select type of view, even 3 sizes of icons, which for JPG files are thumbnails. Whatever you select wiull remain that way until changed.

 

[ninaholic37]

I think it stores the thumbnails in a hidden file called Thumbs.db the first time you visit it (unless you disabled the setting) so it will quickly load them each consecutive visit. It might "refresh" the Thumbs.db file if you added new pictures since the last time you visited it though (if so, it might make sense to save new sets of photos into a different sub-folder).

 

[Ketchup]

Do you want to be able to pull up the pics with Photoshop through a double-click?

Because if you don't/don't care, just go to Set Default Programs and give Windows Photo Viewer all of its defaults.

If you do, I think you are limited by the program, but you could run Disk Cleanup, clear out Thumbnails, and see if they load better after the cache is rebuilt.

 

[olds]

I do want to double click them to open in Photoshop.
This is an archived folder at work and there is 24,105 images in it. It's on a network folder and locked tight. I can't move or delete any of the pics. It's going to take forever to find something I can use.

 

[corkyg]

The big folder needs to be organized by subject or something into sub folders. A single folder is just poor file management.

 

[John Connor]

I wonder if you could right click inside the folder and chose what type of folder it is. Like picture folder that way it should show the icons as pics.