My thumbnails in Pictures in Windows don't pick up my edits!

[Celebration]

When I got this new media computer, I stopped using the old HP photo editing software that I had (and actually liked, though it did keep locking up) and went to Irfanview.

But thumbnails don't pick up the edited picture. It's a bit frustrating, particularly with cropping. When you look at the thumbnail, it looks like this, for example--



The above is unedited.

But after you click on the thumbnail, it shows the edited version



This did not happen with the HP software. Does this happen with other software (Gimp), or just Irfanview? Anything I can do, besides the obvious of remembering the names that I saved things under?

[teamster633]

1. Does this persist?

Within any given program session, the thumbnails are held in cache. This wouldn't necessarily refresh (it does in Photoshop, but then, Photoshop was expensive). I would expect the edits to show up the next time the editor was opened and the cache was recreated.

[Celebration]

2. It persists.........FOREVER

But it didn't do that with the HP editing software. It did this with my old computer as well. I used Irfanview after HP crashed and then I had to reload everything, and used HP again.

Do you use Irfanview? I just wondered if others had this issue after cropping.

Any suggestions?

[HappyCynic]

3. Thumbnail caching

You can try turning off the Windows thumbnail caching. It might be that some software creates the thumbnails from the image so they look ok but other software relies on the cached windows thumbnails.
To turn off thumbnail caching in Windows, do the following:
1. Open Windows explorer.
2. Select "Folder Options..." from the "Tools" menu.
3. Click on the "View" tab.
4. About half-way down the "Advanced settings" is "Do not cache thumbnails". Make sure the box is not checked.
5. Click on the "Apply" button.
6. Click on the "Apply to All Folders" button.

This should force it to create the thumbnails each time. Let me know if this works.

[Celebration]

4. Thanks, I have Windows 7

It appears to be somewhat different from your instructions, but in any case I will try it when I get a chance to figure it out. Many thanks.

[sandnsea]

5. Not sure what you're saying

Are you saying it doesn't save the edited picture in the thumbnail AFTER you save and reopen the program?

Or are you saying it doesn't update the thumbnail as you edit?

I don't use thumbnail editing in photoshop and I never paid much attention in the HP editor. I think it saves both though, so you can revert to the original, which I do like. When I'm editing in photoshop, I usually make a copy to edit anyway, so I always have the original. Then I do rename the new picture that I want to save.

Don't know if that's what you mean or not though. Nice bird pic!

[Celebration]

6. yes

to the first.

It doesn't save the edited picture in the thumbnail AFTER I save and reopen the program.

I do the same thing as you. I always save the original, and give the edited one a different name! But, still, permanently, the newly edited version has a thumbnail just like the original, no matter if I close it out, turn of the computer, whatever.

[sandnsea]

7. That is different

Never seen a program do that and I've worked with several, mostly ones that are loaded with various cameras, stuff like that. Maybe you'll find a setting in the program to change that. It would be annoying I would think, especially if you make variations of the same photo. Let us know how it works out!