Strange Explorer Problem

I'd guess that you may have a corrupt file in there somewhere. That may explain how the thumbs.db got corrupt. I've never had that happen but I remember a post about it on here some time back. Perhaps do a search here using different term until you hit it. Interesting problem..

 

hmm... is there any way that I can find this file so that I can just delete it? So the way this works is that when Windows tries to generate a thumbnail for this one corrupted file, it corrupts the entire Thumbs.DB file, which causes Explorer to go freakishly slow and locks up my whole system when opening this one folder? I know there are a few corrupted files in there that windows media player wont play, would they be causing it?

EDIT: Well, I did some searching and changed folder options so that it doesn't cache thumbnails. I think this was the problem, the thumbnails were using to many system resources due to the size of the folder and number of files within... it seems to be working fine now though... Correction, it was working fine for a minute, I opened a video, it played for me, but when I started deleting things and cleaning up the folder a bit it went and locked the hell up on me for a good couple minutes before it decided to respond again so I could close it. I had task manager open at the time and it was using 47000 kb, as well there were two explorer processes, the other was using 12000 and wasn't hogging the cpu usage. Any other ideas?

 

I don't know. Perhaps it's a corrupt file like dude said. To test it, you might try opening the folder (if you can). Then start moving them out several at a time to see if you can track it down. If this is a fairly recent problem, sort by date and then move them out starting with the newer ones first.

Another thought that crossed my mind is the possibility of a bad context menu handler or shell extension of some kind but I don't know if this would be relevant in this case as they usually cause problems when you right click on files. But, I suppose you could check it out. It can't hurt. You can download ShellExView and use it to disable them. Disable all non Microsoft shell extensions and then see if the behavior changes. If so, start re-enable them one or a few at a time until you find the one that's causing the problem. As I said, I don't know if this is relevant or not but it can't hurt to try it.

 

Er... solved a problem, so there's no need for that message... but the problem remains.... my Music folder just hangs after opening it and double clicking a video... everything grinds to a halt.... it's alright when the folder is in list mode, which leads me to believe it's a thumbnail problem still...