Why do pictures from my Digital Camera cause Windows Explorer to Crash with Thumbnails?

Computer is a new Dell Precision 3400 with dual core Pentium and 2 GB RAM.
OS is manufacturer's load of XP with SP2 and all of the latest updates since
delivery last month.

Camera is a Nikon D300 shooting in 14-bit Raw mode. Sometimes -- and only
in some folders -- Windows Explorer barfs when asked to display thumbnails.
If it fails in a folder, it will fail everytime in that folder so there's
obviously something about the pictures in that folder that kills it. BUT
... when I view the same folders from another (but older) WinXP over the
network with thumbnails, there's no problem and the images of the JPG in the
folder are displayed properly.

What possible incompatibility could exist between a folder of digital
pictures, about half .NEF and the other half .JPG and one WinXP computer but
not another?

TIA
Norm

Big
Thu May 08 14:38:37 PDT 2008

Norm Dresner wrote:
> Computer is a new Dell Precision 3400 with dual core Pentium and 2 GB RAM.
> OS is manufacturer's load of XP with SP2 and all of the latest updates since
> delivery last month.
>
> Camera is a Nikon D300 shooting in 14-bit Raw mode. Sometimes -- and only
> in some folders -- Windows Explorer barfs when asked to display thumbnails.
> If it fails in a folder, it will fail everytime in that folder so there's
> obviously something about the pictures in that folder that kills it. BUT
> ... when I view the same folders from another (but older) WinXP over the
> network with thumbnails, there's no problem and the images of the JPG in the
> folder are displayed properly.
>
> What possible incompatibility could exist between a folder of digital
> pictures, about half .NEF and the other half .JPG and one WinXP computer but
> not another?
>
> TIA
> Norm
>
Do you have any viewer assigned to the .nef files? And is the
association of .jpg the same between computers. I guess your
iconcache.db could be corrupt.

Norm
Fri May 09 05:30:54 PDT 2008

"Big Al" <BigAl@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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| Norm Dresner wrote:
| > Computer is a new Dell Precision 3400 with dual core Pentium and 2 GB
RAM.
| > OS is manufacturer's load of XP with SP2 and all of the latest updates
since
| > delivery last month.
| >
| > Camera is a Nikon D300 shooting in 14-bit Raw mode. Sometimes -- and
only
| > in some folders -- Windows Explorer barfs when asked to display
thumbnails.
| > If it fails in a folder, it will fail everytime in that folder so
there's
| > obviously something about the pictures in that folder that kills it.
BUT
| > ... when I view the same folders from another (but older) WinXP over the
| > network with thumbnails, there's no problem and the images of the JPG in
the
| > folder are displayed properly.
| >
| > What possible incompatibility could exist between a folder of digital
| > pictures, about half .NEF and the other half .JPG and one WinXP computer
but
| > not another?
| >
| > TIA
| > Norm
| >
| Do you have any viewer assigned to the .nef files? And is the
| association of .jpg the same between computers. I guess your
| iconcache.db could be corrupt.

The viewer is an excellent suggestion and I'll check it as soon as I can get
back to that system.
Thanks
Norm

Norm
Fri May 09 06:38:06 PDT 2008

"Norm Dresner" <ndrez@att.net> wrote in message
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| "Big Al" <BigAl@nowhere.com> wrote in message
| news:xpKUj.52546$Bb3.50352@trnddc01...
|| Norm Dresner wrote:
|| > Computer is a new Dell Precision 3400 with dual core Pentium and 2 GB
| RAM.
|| > OS is manufacturer's load of XP with SP2 and all of the latest updates
| since
|| > delivery last month.
|| >
|| > Camera is a Nikon D300 shooting in 14-bit Raw mode. Sometimes -- and
| only
|| > in some folders -- Windows Explorer barfs when asked to display
| thumbnails.
|| > If it fails in a folder, it will fail everytime in that folder so
| there's
|| > obviously something about the pictures in that folder that kills it.
| BUT
|| > ... when I view the same folders from another (but older) WinXP over
the
|| > network with thumbnails, there's no problem and the images of the JPG
in
| the
|| > folder are displayed properly.
|| >
|| > What possible incompatibility could exist between a folder of digital
|| > pictures, about half .NEF and the other half .JPG and one WinXP
computer
| but
|| > not another?
|| >
|| > TIA
|| > Norm
|| >
|| Do you have any viewer assigned to the .nef files? And is the
|| association of .jpg the same between computers. I guess your
|| iconcache.db could be corrupt.
|
| The viewer is an excellent suggestion and I'll check it as soon as I can
get
| back to that system.
| Thanks
| Norm

Big Al was right on target. I changed the viewer on the new system to what
it was on the old one and everything's at least peaceful, even if I can't
view the thumbnails of the NEF files. Since I always shoot raw + jpg
whenever I shoot raw I always can see what the image looks like before I
open it in Nikon's software.
Norm