Thanks for being there......good news is that I was able to figure it out
myself without having to download picasa as adviced by you. The problem was
pretty simply which I was able to ignore earlier. In the root directory of my
SD card, my camera had placed some kind of indexing file(hidden) called
index.pvm (i guess it stands for preview manager) and it was the same file
that the windows photo gallery was trying to open before the other jpeg files
in the sub directories. Now we know that the windows photo gallery starts to
search for files from the root directory itself and tries to open each and
every file that is present on the SD card...starting from the root directory.
As of now the Issue stands resolved. we can now close the thread.
Thanks and regards.
"Ian Betts" wrote:
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>
> "feroze_khan" <ferozekhan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C024EBBC-0502-46D8-B116-43B460C10B71@microsoft.com...
> > Hi Ian....Truly appreciate your reply.... To brief you further, I do not
> > have
> > any programs such as photo shop installed on my vista, so how could the
> > pictures be opened anyways as you claim that they need a program to open
> > the
> > same. The files are the ones that have been clicked on my canon digicam
> > and I
> > believe that they would be jpeg formats (not too sure what is the default
> > file format that it links with the photos that it clicks). If I am not
> > wrong
> > you said that photo gallery is just a program that displays the pics using
> > the default programs associated with the files (such as photo shop) ? If
> > it
> > is the case, how come I am able to view them from windows explorer (right
> > click >> open with windows photo gallery) without that error on the photo
> > gallery application?
> > would be more than happy to give more information on that. Till then hope
> > you could figure out something regarding this.
> >
> > Thanks once again.
> > Regards
>
>
> OK Feroze
>
> Lets just experiment. Go to www.google.com and choose the More..........
> link that you see above/left of the search box. When the list of programs
> shows, choose Picasa. Download this free program and install it. It will
> collect all photos on your computer and copy them to its file system,
> leaving the original where it was. Now when you have Picasa up and running
> and can see those pic's of yours click to open just one. Read below what
> format it is.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Ian
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