'Save Picture' Opening With Thumbnails

I know this has been discussed recently HERE , but it did not solve my problem.

I often save JPG pictures from a CF memory card through a card reader to be sent over the Internet to a business website. I save these in a folder at C:\Pictures to be retrieved later when uploading.

After I open the folder from the memory card and open a picture with Internet Explorer, I am then ready to save it to the C:\Pictures folder. When I select 'Save As' the 'Save Picture' window opens to the C:\Pictures folder because I have reassigned the 'My Pictures' folder to C:\Pictures using Tweakui. The reason I use Internet Explorer to view the picture is that the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer will increase the size of the file when stored.

The problem is, when I chose 'Save As', the 'Save Picture' window opens in THUMBNAILS view instead of LIST view that I need. I must manually change the view to LIST. This is not a major problem when saving pictures because I can go ahead and save it ignoring the thumbnails view. However when I am uploading the pictures to the website and click their 'Browse' button it opens in THUMBNAILS view and I must change it to LIST view to easily find the picture I want. Then when I click 'Browse' again for the next picture, I have to go through the same routine again. This gets very time consuming for many pictures.

Can someone tell me how to change this to where the 'Save As' and 'Browse' will open in LIST view?

Surely someone knows where this is in the Registry so I can change it.

Any help will be appreciated.

Daniel

 

I gather (from the other post link) that you HAVE set the view in folder options so all windows folders are the same (list)?

 

Paul

You are correct, I have all folders set to LIST and all of them that I have checked do open in LIST view.

Daniel

 

For the benefit of someone else that my encounter this same problem, I have found a partial solution.

I created a sub-folder in C:\Pictures and assigned 'My Pictures' to it. Now when I click 'Save As' this folder opens and is empty. Then I click the 'Up One Level' icon and am in the proper folder and it is in LIST view. When I upload these pictures, the website remembers where it went last and goes directly to C:\Pictures which opens in LIST view. This means the minimum amount of clicks when uploading, which is where it was causing me the most trouble.

If I could find out how to change the folder in which 'My Pictures' is assigned to open in LIST view, I could eliminate the one extra click when I save a picture.

Daniel

 

Hi Daniel ...

XP always opens images in the "My Pictures" folder as thumbnails by default, and I haven't found any way to change that. You've already done what I suggested in the other thread, by assigning "My Pictures" to a subfolder of the one where you store your images.

As is usually the case when two users do the same thing in Windows, you and I save images on a CF card in totally different ways. I have a SanDisk ImageMate CF reader, which shows up in Windows Explorer as a removable disk. I open the card in WE, highlight the images in the right pane, drag them to the desired folder and COPY them there (my experience has been that if I try to move them from card to folder I'm likely to lose parts of images).

I don't bother to review the images while they're on the card, because it's faster to do it from the hard drive. And, I don't use the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer ... I user either ACDSee (shareware) or IrfanView (freeware). While reviewing, I delete the ones I know I don't want, and sometimes edit those that may require it. If I make an error, I've still got the original image on the CF card.

When I'm satisfied, I simply put the card back in my camera (Kodak DC4800) and format it.

You're fortunate that you prefer the List view. I prefer Details, and haven't yet figured out how to force requesters (Open, Save, Save As) to open in Details, rather than List.

 

Jim

When I insert my CF card in the reader in the front of my computer, I open 'My Computer' and open the card. I then click each picture and glance at the thumbnail in the left column to get the best one to save as I take several pictures when I am out. After I determine which picture I want to save I open it in Internet Explorer to make sure I am satisfied with my choice. Then I click the SAVE icon in the top left corner of the picture to open the 'Save Picture' window.

I do not move the picture from the card but instead copy it to C:\Pictures on the hard drive. I leave the pictures on the CF card for a period of time as backup. The way I am taking these pictures I can store over 2700 on my 256MB CF card, so I do not need to delete any until I have several hundred stored.

I am not doing a very large quantity of these, so this has seemed the best way for me.

I did not pick up from the previous thread that you had assigned 'My Pictures' to a subfolder in the folder where you store you images. I thought you had put it somewhere else out of the way.

I am just glad I got it to a point where I can function comfortably when storing pictures from a memory card and then uploading them to a website.

Daniel

 

To each his own, Daniel, but I can think of a couple of ways to do the job more easily.

1. The way I described in my previous post ... in Windows Explorer, copy your images from the CF card to the hard drive (all at once, of course, rather than individually), then open the first one in IrfanView. Move through the images using the Page Down and Page Up keys, deleting your unwanted images from your HD folder as you go. The job is done in far fewer steps, as you're seeing each image at full size, and you're not leaving the program between images, as I think you must be doing with IE.

2. Almost the same way, except that you view the images on the card with IrfanView, saving the ones you want as you go. Again, you never have to leave the program until you're done.​

Additionally, IrfanView allows you to save images in a number of different formats and to choose the amount of compression for .jpgs.

Hmmm ... normally I can put 129 on a 128MB card. My .jpg images are 2160x1440 compressed at 1:5, ranging from about 550KB to 1600KB.

Currently, my E:\Images folder contains over 9,300 images in 35 primary subfolders and 355 subordinate subfolders. "My Pictures" is assigned to E:\Images\Z(MyPictures). It is a hidden, read-only folder and contains nothing.