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Location of Thumbnails in Windows Explorer
Squashua
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Question for y'all:
My friend uses Windows explorer in thumbnail mode and view the pictures in his dir as thumbails.
Recently, he overwrote a ton of pictures in a directory with same-named files. The images themselves updated (and he lost them, I suspect), but the THUMBNAILS did not update.
IF we hit "refresh this thumbnail" it will update the thumbnail and we lose it.
Barring using a Print-Screen capture and manually editing the captured pic, where are these thumbnails generally kept so that we can GET them?
Note: I have since convinced my friend to update his pictures by SHOOTING DATE instead of by category (he overwrote precious BABY pictures with new precious BABY pictures, completely purging the first seconds of these kid's lives from the digital world with the exception of said thumbnails). Any other ways of recovery? The new pics have identical filenames and my friend has tried a number of methods on his computer-illiterate lonesome and probably annihilated most of my own chances of getting them.
Lemme know; In the meanwhile, I'm-a gonna do some print-screen caps into Word.
Thanks
My friend uses Windows explorer in thumbnail mode and view the pictures in his dir as thumbails.
Recently, he overwrote a ton of pictures in a directory with same-named files. The images themselves updated (and he lost them, I suspect), but the THUMBNAILS did not update.
IF we hit "refresh this thumbnail" it will update the thumbnail and we lose it.
Barring using a Print-Screen capture and manually editing the captured pic, where are these thumbnails generally kept so that we can GET them?
Note: I have since convinced my friend to update his pictures by SHOOTING DATE instead of by category (he overwrote precious BABY pictures with new precious BABY pictures, completely purging the first seconds of these kid's lives from the digital world with the exception of said thumbnails). Any other ways of recovery? The new pics have identical filenames and my friend has tried a number of methods on his computer-illiterate lonesome and probably annihilated most of my own chances of getting them.
Lemme know; In the meanwhile, I'm-a gonna do some print-screen caps into Word.
Thanks
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Some googling reveals a program that might help you extract the thumbnails.
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Yeah, that will destroy the thumbnails and force windows to recreate them from the files, so don't do that if you want to recover the old images.
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I don't want to CLEAR the thumbnails; I want the files that are associated with them. Will check out program associated with thumbs.db from robaal.