I resized some pictures on my computer, but when i try to view them on my laptop some of them don’t show up. Except for a couple rotations and scaling all I did was resize. Why do I see some images and don’t see some. This is using thumbnails, IE, and Windows Picture Viewer.
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By not show up, do you mean you don’t see them in Windows Explorer at all or do you mean you have the thumbnail option enabled in Explorere but you see an icon for the file instead of a picture? If you double click on the file name does the Windows Picture Viewer display the image?
We would like to help if we could but it’s hard to figure out without knowing what operation system you have (I’m guessing Windows XP), what file format you are saving the photos in (jpg, psd, something else???), and the answers to the other questions.
Do you have the thumbnail option enabled in Elements? Open an image, open the "save as" option and look to see if the thumbnail box at the bottom has a checkmark.
NP, check backwards in the thread; you’ll see that RobertHJones has asked you some questions that will help shed light on the problem. If you come back with those answers, help may be on the way!
Thanks for the assistance. I might have additional problems.
Robert to answer your question.
I’m using Windows XP Pro on the computer that has Adobe Photoshop Elements. I am using Windows XP Home on the laptop. I’m trying to view the pictures off of a shared drive from the WinXP Pro system.
I have the thumbnail option enabled in Explorer and yes you are correct. I see an icon for the file instead of a picture. When I double click on the file name Windows Picture Viewer shows "No preview available". I’m saving all the pics as jpg. When I open the image and do "save as" the thumbnail box at the bottom has a checkmark, but it grayed out.
So i decided to actually copy the unviewable pics to the laptop. And they are all viewable off the laptop’s drive. They also open in Windows Picture Viewer.
I guess I can live with copying the pics over, but if anyone can offer insight into why this is happening that will be great.
Since the copied files work fine under XP home on the laptop, the files are OK. One of the causes of this type of error ("No preview available") is using a compressed image, this usually happens to AOL users who download images off of the Internet — AOL and Compuserve compress by default. This is definitely not your problem. It would appear that the problem somehow relates to the XP Pro system and quite probably the file system on that shared drive.
The other case I’ve seen with "No preview available" is when an encrypting file system is used and the keys are missing or corrupted or the permissions are not allowing this access. I’m wondering if this may be part of the problem. XP Pro does support an encrypted file system using NTFS while XP Home does not. Have you checked your permissions on the shared drive?
A couple of more questions. On the XP pro system, are you using NTFS on that drive? I’m guessing you are, a FAT or FAT32 partition wouldn’t be expected to appear or behave differently on the two systems. Does the thumbnail show up on the XP Pro system and does Picture Viewer work as well? If it does, it pretty well points to a difference in the way the file system is handled.
I’m not sure what the greyed out thumbnail option in PSE implies in this case. Options that are not available or applicable are greyed out. Why that should be the case is puzzling.
How are you copying the file to the XP home system?
Both systems use NTFS. I might have a permission problem, since i have no problem copying from XP Pro to XP Home(laptop). But copying from XP Home to XP Pro gives my errors occasionally. The thumbnails show up in the XP Pro system and the Picture Viewer works there also.
I was able to copy the files from XP Pro to XP Home using the XP Pro system. Trying it the other way did not work. I definitely have a permission problem some where.
I never mentioned it, but the viewable pics and unviewable ones are in the same directory.
