If I got you right....you mean to say that Picasa will not at all try to open
any other files apart from the jpegs or the other supported formats. Hence we
could avoid seeing similar errors as the one I had got with the non supported
files present in the root directory of an SD card???
"Ian Betts" wrote:
>
>
> "feroze_khan" <ferozekhan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:44736E55-784A-4796-9D3F-65DECCC408D9@microsoft.com...
> > 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:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> "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
> >>
> >>
> >
> Ah of course. As a matter of interest Picasa does not do that. Glad you
> found the root of your problem. In time most of us do of course but maybe we
> help others on the way.
>
> --
> Ian
>
>