thumbs.db comment

Keigo · Post by **Keigo** » 26 Jan 2006, 21:39

kinda wondering, why do the DVD comes with the pcformat mag.
always contains thumbs.db? don't you delete them and burn into DVD?
isn't that look much more clean and professional?

wizardofid · Post by **wizardofid** » 26 Jan 2006, 21:54

Keigo wrote:kinda wondering, why do the DVD comes with the pcformat mag.
always contains thumbs.db? don't you delete them and burn into DVD?
isn't that look much more clean and professional?

"I can likes to knows as wells" 8O

Well next time I burn(and no not with a match but with a dvd burner)a DVD I want to write "into" the dvd as well.Mabye that works better than burning "onto" a DVD.

Keigo · Post by **Keigo** » 26 Jan 2006, 22:06

wizardofid wrote:
Keigo wrote:kinda wondering, why do the DVD comes with the pcformat mag.
always contains thumbs.db? don't you delete them and burn into DVD?
isn't that look much more clean and professional?

"I can likes to knows as wells" 8O

Well next time I burn(and no not with a match but with a dvd burner)a DVD I want to write "into" the dvd as well.Mabye that works better than burning "onto" a DVD.

damn... my grammar is getting bad all the time... need to work on it...

anyway~ wizardofid~ don't you sleep? look like you always on

wizardofid · Post by **wizardofid** » 26 Jan 2006, 22:13

I see you can take a joke.

Always online...... 8O

As for the topic at hand, thumbs.dll as for as I know has some thing to do with images.Too lazy to do a proper google search.

And I also know that it's a hidden file, so as for clean and professional it is.

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 26 Jan 2006, 22:14

I've always wondered what the thumbs.db file is, what is it?

wizardofid · Post by **wizardofid** » 26 Jan 2006, 22:19

"thumbs.db"? It is a database file containing the small images displayed when you view a folder in "thumbnail" view (as opposed to tile, icon, list, or detail view).

*Edit Mozz loser.....

Mozz · Post by **Mozz** » 26 Jan 2006, 22:20

When u put Explorer in "Thumbnail" mode, it stores the down sized images in it, so that everytime u open that folder it dnt have to read the images to show u thumbnails

[EDIT] damn you wiz

Post by **Cameron_Losco** » 27 Jan 2006, 17:36

Yeah, they arent the end of the world but will make a plan to remove them before burning in the future.

RuadRauFlessa · Post by **RuadRauFlessa** » 28 Jan 2006, 10:43

Actually Cameron I would test that first if I were you. Write one without them and use another pc to test wether you can view that folder in thumb mode. Cuz windows kinda wants the thumbs.db file to be in the same folder as the originals. That and windows cannot do it to the cd cuz the cd is read only when it gets to us. Furthermore windows does not do that stuff in memory.

Anywho just test it. It is worth the waste of a single CD/DVD

Jdoa · Post by **Jdoa** » 28 Jan 2006, 10:58

You know those thumbs.db take up alot of space when the check box in your windows setting is "on" to cache the thumbnails. My friend was once very desperate to get a little space on his hdd and when he delete all of these thumbs he got up to 600mb free!!! 8O

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