Can't hide .db files

[obelisk]

thumb mode, adding DB to custom files as part of "HTM HTML MHT MHTML XML XHTML EML NWS URL DB"

uncheck all

thumbs.db still shown in thumb mode
due to 2 letter ext?

[Clo]

obelisk

Hello !

…thumbs.db still shown in thumb mode

• The XnView own databases are named :

XnView.db
cache_thumb.db

• So, the file you are talking of could be the one that WINDOWS spreads eveywhere
- I've disabled this here in Win XP (don't remember how…) a long while ago because it sucks a lot !

KR
Claude
Clo

[obelisk]

yes, but then every time you open a folder of 100 RAWs you'd have to wait 2min for thumbs!

[Clo]

obelisk

Again…

yes, but then every time you open a folder of 100 RAWs you'd have to wait 2min for thumbs!

• Not at all because :
1. There is no RAW file here, I don't deal with cameras (I even don't hold one…)
2. Supposing I open a big folder of images elsewhere than in XnView, I'll get thumbnails if I want very quickly,
since I do not use Win Explorer (YUK !) but Total Commander which has its own database I optimize often…
- There are options making that the thumbnails are created while scrolling the file-list - if not already in the TC database…
- You may also use XnView to get¦create the thumb nails in TC if you prefer…
- So, I sent the damned Explorer thumbs.dbs to limbo once for all !

KR
Claude
Clo

[bmezenga]

yes, but then every time you open a folder of 100 RAWs you'd have to wait 2min for thumbs!

Sorry but I don´t get it:
If you are using XnView as image browser, why do you enable thumbnails view mode in explorer ?
Just disable "remember each folder´s view setting", change the view mode from thumbnails to any other and voila: no more thumbnails in explorer.

Anyway, i don´t think that raw files are supported in Windows by default.
You should have installed some kind of shell extension from your camera manufacturer software bundle.
Try uninstalling it.

[obelisk]

Yes raw files are supported in Windows by the MS Raw codecs

why do enable thumbnails view mode in explorer ? Have you ever used PS or any other program or even a web browser? When you browse for a file, it's using explorer to show thumbnails.

Because I want to use explorer as well as XnView . XnView is a viewer. explorer is my shell. When I mail files I use explorer to select them, not XnView .

I use diff. tools to get diff. jobs done, I don't worry about small hidden thumbs.db files (much). Just like I don't worry about optimizing XnView's cache every day for 'stray' thumbs

This is all straying from the point that this is a bug of some sort.

[xnview]

I have not this problem, do you use filter/Custom?

[obelisk]

filter/all
never used filter

only trigger is

thumb mode-> all other files

[xnview]

Filter/all show all files

[obelisk]

what is filter/Custom?
options has 2 Custom lines