Open dialog file previews in CS

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Ho
Feb 17, 2004
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Was anything ever resolved re the very slow initial generation of file previews in the CS File>Open dialog box? On my system it takes several seconds for the preview of a large file to appear. I know others were complaining of the same issue, but I’ve lost track of the threads.

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Robert_Levine
Feb 17, 2004
Several seconds? Consider yourself lucky. Mine took a couple of minutes for some of them.

Bob
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dave_milbut
Feb 17, 2004
ho, not sure if this is the one i remember, so i’ll just throw this out – did you run the reg file in the goodies folder to turn off thumbs in the open dialog? (or do you want them and they’re just too slow?)
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Rick Moore
Feb 17, 2004
Dave, it doesn’t work. I asked Chris what the thing was actually supposed to do but I never got an answer.
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dave_milbut
Feb 17, 2004
what doesn’t work derrick? turning it off or on? it says it "allows" (or not) thumbnails in the open dialog box.

I recently found an article on chaning the view of the open dialog (details, thumbnails, icons, etc.). if anyone’s interested i’ll post it. not sure if it’ll help w/this issue.
RM
Rick Moore
Feb 17, 2004
We were trying to get rid of the preview that is in the File|Open dialog, underneath the file list window. Near as I could tell this reg key didn’t do anything at all – off or on, CS or 7, and I know others tried it to no avail

what doesn’t work derrick? turning it off or on? it says it "allows" (or
not) thumbnails in the open dialog box.
DM
dave_milbut
Feb 17, 2004
OIC. the preview is different from thumbnails, i think.
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Rick Moore
Feb 18, 2004
Yes, dave, apparently the preview is hooked to the File Browser cache (create a new file and go to the open dialog, then look at your FB cache – a new file will have been created), so I assume it has nothing to do with psicon.dll or the Windows thumbs.db

OIC. the preview is different from thumbnails, i think.
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Ho
Feb 18, 2004
"Several seconds" might have been an optimistic assesment.

Anyway, I take it that this has yet to be resolved.
RL
Robert_Levine
Feb 18, 2004
Anyway, I take it that this has yet to be resolved.

You take it correctly.

Bob
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Ho
Feb 18, 2004
OK, while we’re on the subject of "things that run like frozen molasses", has anyone tried the jpeg 2000 plugin in CS? Do you find it to be as irritatingly slow as I do? I think the previews (the source of the sluggishness on my machine) should be faster… a lot faster, and there should be an option to disable them altogether. Especially if there’s no way to speed them up.
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dave_milbut
Feb 18, 2004
has anyone tried the jpeg 2000 plugin in CS?

sorry not me. is it supported anywhere else yet? mozilla? IE?
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Ho
Feb 19, 2004
Not as far as I know, dave. I just want to use it for my own archiving purposes, but it is very tedious in its current configuration.
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dave_milbut
Feb 19, 2004
is that something you really want to use for archiving if it’s not a widely supported industry standard (yet)? don’t know much about it, but what if it doesn’t catch on and you want to get at your files in 10 years. who knows if you’ll be able to re-activate cs version 1 in order to open them! (only half-joking.)

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