Thumbnail problem solved!!!

Thank you Mike and tbunkley. Went to "manage thumbnail cache" and removed "orphaned thumbs". That helped so I went back and dumped everything past 6 months. That got rid of 7147 old thumbs!!!!! Now they load in seconds!!!

Thanks again.....
 

Mike...

A little background. In My Pictures I have about 175 picture files. Some have 200-300 pictures in them and others have 10-30. I'd say they average 50-60 per file. As of tonight (7-08-09)... about 30-50% have been totally populated. Some files load up to the last 10 or 15 and then just go to the blank squares. Many more have loaded since last night and there is no rhyme or resason why one file loads and another doesn't. It's been two days and it's getting there.

I thought I saw a post that said that old thumbs build up over time. Well I've been with you for years and I've never cleaned any out. Is there a way that I might get rid of old ones? I have updated the system at least twice a year and have never ever had any problems with the thumbs not loading. Every year the whole thing slows down. and I expect that... It's getting like PhotoShop. I need to get a new laptop with 4 gigs of memory and a fast processor. Maybe I just have to wait another day or two. Do they continue to load when you turn off the program? Do they continue to load if you just minimize the program? Again... I've never had a problem with Qimage until now. I wish I would not have upgraded this time.... Bill

Hi Mike....

When you say restart Qimage to you mean to start from scratch and start with the program file... i.e. start with the user-password or just turn it off and back on... which won't work because I've done that ten times already today.....

I upgraded my Qimage Professional from one about a year ago to 265 today. Everything was fine until it came to thumbnails. It made thumbs of about 5 file folders and quit. There is nothing I can do to make it make any more. I have70 or 80 folders full of pictures...some with 100-200 images in them. Maybe it won't handle that many. It always has in the past. Until I upgraded today...all the thumbnails were in the last version that I had. Maybe I need to reset or restart something. I have no idea how to get the thumbs to appear... the line above the the empty squares shows that they are loading...but when it gets to the end it just says 151 but none of the squares has an image in it.... What can I do to get it to make the thumbs?

Bill

Thanks Tony... I'm not sure what the Thumbs section says, but I have about 5 folders that loaded and none of the rest will load.... They say they are loading but when the last one loads there's still no thumbs, just a big Q in the middle of a square. I have about 60 folders to load and I can't wait around for each folder to finish...even if it was actually loading the thumbs. I've NEVER had this problem and I've been on this system for YEARS. I wish I would have stayed with the 2008 version... it worked just fine. This is the first time I've ever had a problem like this.

Bill

I just upgraded from mid-2008 to today's version and I have HUNDREDS of pictures in MY PICTURES file. How long will it take for the thumbnails to build? And will they continue to build if I'm out of the program? And is there anythhing I can do to make the process move faster? It's no problem if the program just keeps building the thumbs while I work on other projects.
Thanks.....  Glovbug