View Thumbnails in Explorer

mrmeister

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Hi,
I recently upgraded to Windows 8 on my Boot Camp partition (i'm aware that Apple hasn't officially released drivers for 8 yet, i'm still running the Windows 7 Boot Camp drivers and so far it seems stable).

I've ran into a little problem in the Explorer. As i'm using an SSD, i have my Windows partition fairly small (~50GB) so i keep all of my photos on my Mac partition and don't duplicate them over.
When trying to browse through these photos on the Windows side, i can see the file name and the icon, and they open perfectly in Windows Picture Viewer, but within Explorer they all show the same default Windows "Mountain by the lake" icon.

I've been into Folder Preferences and told it only to display thumbnails and not the icon but still no luck...
Does anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks for your help
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 Pro 64-bit (Boot Camp)
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Apple Macbook Pro 15" (late 2011)
    CPU
    Intel i7-2675QM 2.20 GHz
    Memory
    8GB DDR3 1067MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Built in 15" Display
    Screen Resolution
    1440*900
    Hard Drives
    OCZ Vertex 3 240GB
I am going to say that because the pics actually reside on OSX, windows is unable to create a thumnail cache. It does this to speed up the viewing time, however your windows really doesn't "own" the pics folder on OSX and may not be able to build this cache properly and therefore you would not have any thumnails. here is an excert from the mighty Wikipedia about it:

"Beginning with Windows Vista, thumbnail previews are stored in a centralized location on the system. This provides the system with access to images independent of their location, and addresses issues with the locality of Thumbs.db files. The cache is stored at %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer as a number of files with the label thumbcache_xxx.db (numbered by size); as well as an index used to find thumbnails in each sized database.
However, when browsing network shares with write permission, Windows Vista and Windows 7 store a Thumbs.db file in the remote directory instead of using the (local) central thumbnail cache. This can cause issues when deleting remote shares, as the directory will become locked for a period of time when selected as Windows Explorer automatically creates a remote Thumbs.db file.
Creating Thumbs.db files on remote shares can be disabled with a Group Policy setting"

Hope that makes some sense, it would seem that is the problem to me any way.

Geeve

Edit: you could just grab a couple of pics and move them over to the windows side and see if it gives you your preview, that would at least test the cache theory anyway.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Dual Boot: Back to W7 and Ubuntu 12.04
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Dimension E521
    CPU
    AMD AthlonTM 64 X2 dual-core
    Memory
    4 GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia 9800 GT 1GB
    Sound Card
    M-Audio Mobile Pre USB External
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer 1916W
    Screen Resolution
    1440X900
    Hard Drives
    250 GB internal main, 500 GB internal backup, 1TB External
    PSU
    300 Watt (Dell stock)
    Case
    Dell Stock
    Keyboard
    Dell
    Mouse
    Dell
    Browser
    Chrome
    Antivirus
    MSE/Defender or whatever it's called now
    Other Info
    Acer aspire One D255, Windows 8.1.1 Pro, 2GB Ram, Intel Atom N450 1.6Ghz
you could just grab a couple of pics and move them over to the windows side and see if it gives you your preview, that would at least test the cache theory anyway.


I just tried that and it seems as though you're right. I moved a handful of pictures to the desktop and immediately the thumbnails showed up on both the desktop and when i viewed desktop in explorer.
So is the problem to do with Windows being able to read but not write onto the OSX drive?

Thanks
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 Pro 64-bit (Boot Camp)
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Apple Macbook Pro 15" (late 2011)
    CPU
    Intel i7-2675QM 2.20 GHz
    Memory
    8GB DDR3 1067MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Built in 15" Display
    Screen Resolution
    1440*900
    Hard Drives
    OCZ Vertex 3 240GB
That would be my guess. I am not a Mac guy, but the file structure would be different and windows would not have permission to or the structure to write the cache file it needs.

Geeve

Edit: My understanding is Boot camp is like a Virtual machine and by default the guest OS cannot modify the Host OS in anyway (other than sharing files)
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Dual Boot: Back to W7 and Ubuntu 12.04
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Dimension E521
    CPU
    AMD AthlonTM 64 X2 dual-core
    Memory
    4 GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia 9800 GT 1GB
    Sound Card
    M-Audio Mobile Pre USB External
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer 1916W
    Screen Resolution
    1440X900
    Hard Drives
    250 GB internal main, 500 GB internal backup, 1TB External
    PSU
    300 Watt (Dell stock)
    Case
    Dell Stock
    Keyboard
    Dell
    Mouse
    Dell
    Browser
    Chrome
    Antivirus
    MSE/Defender or whatever it's called now
    Other Info
    Acer aspire One D255, Windows 8.1.1 Pro, 2GB Ram, Intel Atom N450 1.6Ghz
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