little_homer Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 Everytime i open a directory there is a file called thumbs. And if i delete it it will appear again. Is this a usual problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_91 Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 I think you should post this topic in the siggestion, feedback and problems topic, there you might be get help with your problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 (edited) I get those thumbs only for .zip and .rar files. Did you always have this prob? Edited January 30, 2007 by Jace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little_homer Posted January 30, 2007 Author Share Posted January 30, 2007 I get those thumbs only for .zip and .rar files.Did you always have this prob? Yes. And this is not my computer its my dads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 Thumbs.db is a file generated by Windows. It's a cache of the thumbnail previews for all the files in that folder. Very useful for folders containing lots of porn images as when viewing in the thumbnail view it loads the images straight from Thumbs.db, and reduces the amount of time spent processing all the files to generate thumbnails. You can delete the file if you wish, it doesn't matter, but it won't do any harm leaving it there either. Moved to PC Chat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris82 Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 I think you can hide it by going to Tools>Folder options>View, ticking the option that says "Do not show hidden files and folders" and clicking ok. Then refresh the folder by pressing F5 and it should be gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Yeah, it can be hidden, but it's not a big deal. Basically what was said is correct, it just holds the cache of a thumbnail copy of your images in a certain directory. Why Microsoft has found a more efficient way to do this as of yet is anyones guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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