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Software => Computer software => Topic started by: younggeeza on December 14, 2008, 06:26:22 PM

Title: Paint
Post by: younggeeza on December 14, 2008, 06:26:22 PM

I noticed that with MS Paint, sometimes when you edit an image that the image will appear unedited in thumbnail preview. I was wondering if it was possible that simply edited paint images could be restored to the last saved version? assuming it was only simply edited.

Title: Re: Paint
Post by: BC_Programmer on December 14, 2008, 07:47:29 PM

reopen the file.

Title: Re: Paint
Post by: Kurtiskain on December 15, 2008, 03:53:32 AM

I assume you mean the windows generated thumbnails and no, if you have saved over it them it is gone, forever.

The thumbnails are not always updated right away, i believe if you push f5 (refresh) or re-open the folder it may work, and of course, if you take a copy of the thumbs.db (hidden file) then you can probably extract the tiny thumbnail of the original :D

Title: Re: Paint
Post by: younggeeza on December 15, 2008, 04:14:27 PM

no really...the thumbnail image remains the same as the original.

Title: Re: Paint
Post by: Kurtiskain on December 15, 2008, 05:59:33 PM

It will if you haven't saved the edited one, eg it wont "update on the fly" if thats what you are meaning.

Also I believe there would be a registry tweak to disable thumbnail generation, though I have no clue where it would be  ;D

Anyway what exactly is your question/issue here   ???

Title: Re: Paint
Post by: Kip on December 15, 2008, 08:02:43 PM

Try right-clicking the preview and clicking "Refresh Thumbnail".

Edit: Sorry, I thought you wanted to refresh the thumbnail preview.  I should have paid more attention.  As Kurtiskain said, once you save over a file, the original version is gone.  I have found that out the hard way.