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How do I view files in a folder in my picture library that w

Jan 7, 2015 2:59PM PST

I use windows 7. When I right click on the folder and clock properties it says there are 3,244 files in the folder but when I open the folder it will only load 1,276 of the photos. I have tried the "show hidden files" from the folder options in the control panel, it did not help at all. I have also tried recovery software on the file and before it finishes the recovery process it shuts off and gives an I/O error message. Can some one please give me some ideas on what might help me view the rest of the files? Thank you.

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Did you try the DIR command?
Jan 7, 2015 3:50PM PST

It's been around a few decades so I'll pause while you try it.
Bob

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Re: files
Jan 7, 2015 4:09PM PST

Can you tell more about "tried recovery software on the file"? Recovery commonly is done on a partition on a device (a hard disk, a SD card, a USB-stick), not on a file.

Kees

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Jan 8, 2015 2:20AM PST

Thank you or replying. Yes, I originally downloaded it previously to get files off of an SD card, but the program also has an option for putting in a specific file location (such as your library folders). So I tried this and it searches for files and finds many but before it completes it shuts of and gives me a blue screen with the error code 0x0000007A. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

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Re: 0x000007A
Jan 8, 2015 6:04AM PST
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Jan 8, 2015 9:22AM PST

Thanks so much for your help, i'll check into the info you provided.

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Jan 8, 2015 2:11AM PST

Thanks for your reply. No I did not try a DIR command. Can you explain how to do this. The error code it gives me is 0x000007A If that helps at all. Thank you.

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Sure. There are so many articles about this old tool.
Jan 8, 2015 6:08AM PST
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Jan 8, 2015 9:22AM PST

Thanks for your help, I'll check into it more.

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(NT) are some of those, subfolders with files in them?
Jan 8, 2015 10:52AM PST
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Jan 8, 2015 2:02PM PST

No, the particular folder I am working with is just one folder with around 3200 files (photos) in it. I actually went into the properties and went to the sharing tab and was able to bring up all of the photos in the sharing area, but I can not get them to transfer to my external hard drive without the screen going blue before it finishes and getting an error code.

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been thinking on it
Jan 8, 2015 8:38PM PST

found this;



FAT32
"There's no practical limit on the combined sizes of all the files in a folder, though there may be limits on the number of files in a folder."FAT32 was introduced to overcome some of the limitations of FAT16.
Maximum disk size: 2 terabytes
Maximum file size: 4 gigabytes
Maximum number of files on disk: 268,435,437
Maximum number of files in a single folder: 65,534

NTFS
NTFS, or "New Technology File System" introduced with Windows NT, is a completely redesigned file system.
Maximum disk size: 256 terabytes
Maximum file size: 256 terabytes
Maximum number of files on disk: 4,294,967,295
Maximum number of files in a single folder: 4,294,967,295


Also wondering if you have it set to show thumbnails, instead of to "Details", that might be maxing out RAM due to the large number of files loading up the thumbnails into memory.

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Thumbnails can incur a huge overhead.
Jan 9, 2015 3:00AM PST

Not only much each file be opened, read but also may call up a CODEC to render a thumbnail. As each video file could be encoded in some other way, CODEC after CODEC are called up and some are less than speedy in their initialization and response times.

Back to DIR. It shows how fast a folder list can be. Asking for Windows Explorer to thumbnail files can be as painful as hitting your thumb with the hammer.

Then we have MRUBAGS and BAGS to consider as the counts increase.
http://superuser.com/questions/260391/cant-find-the-bagmru-size-value-my-folder-settings-are-getting-lost

Some folk continue to use Windows Explorer and don't get it.
Bob

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Jan 9, 2015 4:55AM PST

I doubt if it's a thumbnail issue.

- dir might work, it doesn't read the files, just the directory, so it need not be relevant for issues with copy
- thumbnails aren't read when copying, even in Windows Explorer

What I would do:
- Use xcopy or robocopy from the command prompt to copy all files (*.jpg or something like that) to a USB-stick (or a folder on the external hard drive); both are command prompt programs available in Windows.
- Copy the contents of the folder from there to another PC.
- If both operations are fine, see what happens there if the same is done as on the original PC.
- Next step depends on the result of these 3 steps.

Kees

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I've seen Windows BSOD on folders with images.
Jan 9, 2015 7:28AM PST