Resolved No JPEG files found in Start/Search

Hi. I am running Win XP sp 3. Something strange has happened to my Start/search feature.

I used to be able to check JPEG Image in the advanced option and all my jpeg images on my c drive would be displayed. Now the search grinds on and on until it reaches the end without one image to display.

If I uncheck all the choices below the type of file window and click search, it completes the search almost at once with no jpeg images found. Individually the only box that the search continues on and on is the "search sub folders" choice, the rest complete the search at once with now images. Also if I do a search of "pictures, music, or videos" /â€pictures and photos" I get everything that is on the drive, jpeg, gif, bmp, WMF etc.

I replaced my old hard drive with a larger one and transferred everything successfully about two weeks ago so I am wondering if I could have done something that is causing this to happen?

Is there something that will get me back to searching for .jpeg images only?

Thank you. Troof

 

Hi Pete, I did download Agent Ransack a couple of days ago but could not find away to search only for jpeg files.

The Help feature did not seem to offer anything for jpeg files. What am I missing?

Would still like to stick to the search method I grew up with. Thanks Troof

 

Pete - O.K. I guess I didn't read about the wild card. Now is there a way to make the results show up in a thumbnail view? Thanks, Troof

 

Thanks Pete but it looks like I am back to the start of this thread. Most of my files are labeled with the date and a number. I guess I could use Picaso in a pinch but would prefer to use the start/search as I have in the past. Any other thoughts on this would be appreciated. - Troof

 

Pete - Well I have got it figured out but can not explain what happened.

After staring at the icons of my JPEG files in detail view I noticed that they looked some what different then what I remembered. I chose one photo and clicked on properties and the “Open With” box opened which showed the choices of programs to open the file with. As I scanned down the list I noticed the icon for “Picasa Photo Viewer” was the same one that was associated with all my JPEG files. I have no idea how that got there. Anyhow I then proceeded to click on the SeaMonkey program (my browser) as the one to always open this type of file. After doing this for the one file all the JPEG files were then corrected and now they all show up in my windows search when I search for JPEG Images in the more advanced options of the windows search.

I guess the problem is solved except not knowing how the “open file with” got changed from SeaMonkey to Picasa Photo Viewer. It is nothing I would do on my own. I wonder if my Picasa program did it for me some how. At least now I know.

Thanks again for your input Pete.