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MKInfo
December 30th, 2006, 02:34 PM
There are some great products and designs etc that I have bought from some talented people here.I have no complaints........except 1.
Please remove all of the thumbs.db files from your products before putting them up for download.It's a royal pain in the a** to go through 250 folders deleting the damn things.

Rant over :P
Thankyou

Maybe a sticky?

AzBlk
December 30th, 2006, 03:29 PM
There are some great products and designs etc that I have bought from some talented people here.I have no complaints........except 1.
Please remove all of the thumbs.db files from your products before putting them up for download.It's a royal pain in the a** to go through 250 folders deleting the damn things.

Rant over :P
Thankyou

Maybe a sticky?
thumbs.db is created in any images folders by windows.xp

DavidR
December 30th, 2006, 03:33 PM
I don't know if it was my layout pack - but I will reply to this anyway as you did just buy it which makes me paranoid that it's me!

From my end they should all be removed, I just double checked and there doesn't seem to be any in my folders.

MKInfo
December 30th, 2006, 03:34 PM
Yes they are but mine are turned off.It's the files I'm downloading that already contain them.
To disable the creation of them open any folder .
Tools/folder options/view.
Tick no not cache thumbnails.
Click apply to all folders.
Click apply.
Click ok.
Job done.

Or just stop sending the things.They're driving me nuts!

Edit.You posted when I was writing this post David R.I haven't downloaded your pack yet so I don't know.You can cancel your paranoia!

vulcanstudios
December 30th, 2006, 03:35 PM
If they are there you could probably just do a search in the folder for thumbs.db and then select them all there and delete them all at once.

MKInfo
December 30th, 2006, 03:39 PM
If they are there you could probably just do a search in the folder for thumbs.db and then select them all there and delete them all at once.

Tried that with the windows search..doesn't work.

DavidR
December 30th, 2006, 03:39 PM
Edit.You posted when I was writing this post David R.I haven't downloaded your pack yet so I don't know.You can cancel your paranoia!

Too late, you've got me looking over my shoulder expecting to see a thumbs.db. I'm a mess.

lmf33
January 17th, 2007, 05:25 PM
Thankyou MKInfo, I wish I knew that, I spent so much time deleting those things out of my folders and looking through all of them before zipping, etc.

rocktheboat911
January 17th, 2007, 05:52 PM
Thank you for pointing that out lol I just went through like 55 layouts so far Im going through all my stuff and deleting them now haha :P

mawt
January 17th, 2007, 08:56 PM
When i upload something to ftp-I always try to delete them before they get uploaded. There hell annoying.

sshjustkissme
January 17th, 2007, 08:58 PM
Yes they are but mine are turned off.It's the files I'm downloading that already contain them.
To disable the creation of them open any folder .
Tools/folder options/view.
Tick no not cache thumbnails.
Click apply to all folders.
Click apply.
Click ok.
Job done.

Or just stop sending the things.They're driving me nuts!

Edit.You posted when I was writing this post David R.I haven't downloaded your pack yet so I don't know.You can cancel your paranoia!

Ooohhh...so that's how you get rid of it! :O I thought I had some viruss or something...though I probably do anyway.

Precious
January 18th, 2007, 12:35 PM
What is the thumbs.db anyways? lol

omen
January 19th, 2007, 01:07 PM
Precious: this (http://www.classweb.hs.iastate.edu/tips/thumbs/default.htm) page should explain it.