Resolved How to get pictures to show up in the folders icon

When I go to "My Pictures" I can see folders with up to 4 pictures inside that gives me an idea what pictures are in the folder.

I started getting my photos partition full so I transferred some pictures over to my 1TB drive. This only has the folders and no pictures inside them. I have no idea what's in each folder.
How come "My Pictures" folder does this but the my pictures folder I made doesn't? Is there a way to have the pictures show up?

Thank you,
Chris.

 

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I'm just checking my XP comp to see if it's the same as Vista.
My Vista Pictures has 34 to 35 Folders with photos in them. I double click on a folder and it opens and displays all the photos contained therein. I hope I'm understanding what you are saying.

My Pictures Folders would be holding around a thousand photos and I don't have a problem with space. I use Picasa 3.9 and Import to it and create Albums which show as Folders in Pictures.

Please let us know if this is what happens for you or have you set up a separate Pictures partition? Neil.

 

This worked good, although it was a little different getting to it in my XP.
Sorry about not having my specs, I was on Windowsbbs for a long time but something happened and I guess I somehow started over.

I will post them, and will change it again very soon after I get a few more questions answered about my soon upgrade.

Chris

 

You need to go the folder the photos are stored in, Right click in a blank area where the photo files are listed, select View, then select Thumbnails. After the hidden file named Thumbs.Db is created by all the photos being read, your folder icon should reflect the contents.