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1. #PHOTOS WONT PREVIEW ON WINDOWS 10 IN FOLDERS ANDROID#
2. #PHOTOS WONT PREVIEW ON WINDOWS 10 IN FOLDERS SOFTWARE#
3. #PHOTOS WONT PREVIEW ON WINDOWS 10 IN FOLDERS CODE#
4. #PHOTOS WONT PREVIEW ON WINDOWS 10 IN FOLDERS PC#

A good middle ground, and a company that seems to regularly fill int he gap between Windows and Google, is Samsung. Google would prefer you just upload your photos to Google drive/Photos and access them via a browser, and MS wants you to use their crappy Import feature on their Windows Photos app, which doesn't work most of the time. Of course, here is the disconnect, as both companies typically ignore these little incompatibilities as they wold prefer you stick to their ecosystem. OR Windows needs to adapt file explorer to be automatically generate thumbnails for media files when connected to a storage devices designated as MTP.

#PHOTOS WONT PREVIEW ON WINDOWS 10 IN FOLDERS CODE#

Stop suggesting that people.Įither GOOGLE has to include some code allowing for windows access the file folders on the phone as an external storage device, when accessed via file explorer. Now when file explorer expands your file folder containing photos and videos, it only shows ICONS and does not generate thumbnails as it would do automatically with any external USB device.Ĭlearing/Rebuilding the thumbnail cache DOES NOT WORK.

#PHOTOS WONT PREVIEW ON WINDOWS 10 IN FOLDERS SOFTWARE#

This is so files can be transferred more easily using crappy "transfer/import photos" dialogues from built in windows Software like Windows Photos.

#PHOTOS WONT PREVIEW ON WINDOWS 10 IN FOLDERS ANDROID#

Now you know.Android phones used to mount as an external storage device when connected to Windows.Ī few Android versions ago, Google decided to change this and use MTP instead. Notice how this shows a different – albeit single – preview image in the folder while the screen capture immediately above it still shows the unicorn and shamrock graphic. Cool image, eh? I choose it, click on “Open” and…ĭone. I have a cool Dia de la Muertas-style skull image I’m going to use, so I just find it in the subsequent Browse window: To change the image, have a new image or picture file ready to go and click on “Choose File…” to select it. The middle section of this particular window is the key: Folder pictures. Apparently we see a folder icon, but Microsoft sees a world of things you can analyze and tweak. Notice that there are no less than six tabs on this window, and that we’ve chosen “ Customize” to get to this set of options. The choice you want is at the very bottom: Properties.

That’s done by right-clicking on the folder icon to bring up the context menu:

So let’s change Saved Pictures to use a different image entirely. Meanwhile, Saved Pictures has all sorts of strange images, including, yes, that’s a unicorn! Turns out that it’s pretty straightforward to change the graphic image, so let’s start by simply looking at a folder icon that has the preview images included:Ĭamera Roll and Screenshots are empty, so they’re shown as such in the icon. But hey, we can handle this level of obscurity! So you’re definitely not asking about a mainstream Win feature.

#PHOTOS WONT PREVIEW ON WINDOWS 10 IN FOLDERS PC#

Thing of it is, I bet that if Microsoft collected user behavior and analyzed millions of PC computers, they’d find that maybe a half-dozen out of those million tweaked or changed this setting. I’m impressed! Since you’re clearly a detail oriented person, I will tell you up front that while the default preview images on the folder icons in Win10 let you sneak a peak at two images from the folder, if you change or specify what you want shown, it’ll only be one image, not two. You’re paying close attention to the nuances and details of your Windows system if you are not just aware of the tiny photo thumbnails integrated into the Windows folder icons, but realize that you can change them if it’s information you don’t want to have in the icon itself.