Vista - "windows photo gallery cannot open picture or video........."

Every time I select 'view pictures in windows photo gallery' from the auto
play pop up, it opens up the windows photo gallery with an error "windows
photo gallery cannot open picture or video. either the file format is not
supported or you dont have the latest updates for windows photo gallery" on a
window titled 'index.vpm'
However when I click on the next or previous button to view the pictures,
they show up fine. I was just wondering if I really need some updates for
windows (My vista ultimate says that windows is upto date) else my pictures
are non supported file format (How come they do open fine with the left and
the right arrow).
please help, I dont want to see the error when I preview my SD card pictures
using the photo gallery via the auto play pop up.
I am able to explore my SD card and preview the selected pictures without
any problems.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

I am sorry it is window titled 'index.pvm'

"feroze_khan" wrote:

> Every time I select 'view pictures in windows photo gallery' from the auto
> play pop up, it opens up the windows photo gallery with an error "windows
> photo gallery cannot open picture or video. either the file format is not
> supported or you dont have the latest updates for windows photo gallery" on a
> window titled 'index.vpm'
> However when I click on the next or previous button to view the pictures,
> they show up fine. I was just wondering if I really need some updates for
> windows (My vista ultimate says that windows is upto date) else my pictures
> are non supported file format (How come they do open fine with the left and
> the right arrow).
> please help, I dont want to see the error when I preview my SD card pictures
> using the photo gallery via the auto play pop up.
> I am able to explore my SD card and preview the selected pictures without
> any problems.
> Any help would be highly appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.

"feroze_khan" <ferozekhan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8D089740-CDAB-4FB9-B3CC-C63714BDC88F@microsoft.com...
> Every time I select 'view pictures in windows photo gallery' from the auto
> play pop up, it opens up the windows photo gallery with an error "windows
> photo gallery cannot open picture or video. either the file format is not
> supported or you dont have the latest updates for windows photo gallery"
> on a
> window titled 'index.vpm'
> However when I click on the next or previous button to view the pictures,
> they show up fine. I was just wondering if I really need some updates for
> windows (My vista ultimate says that windows is upto date) else my
> pictures
> are non supported file format (How come they do open fine with the left
> and
> the right arrow).
> please help, I dont want to see the error when I preview my SD card
> pictures
> using the photo gallery via the auto play pop up.
> I am able to explore my SD card and preview the selected pictures without
> any problems.
> Any help would be highly appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.
>
Photo Gallery is only a viewing program. It clearly cannot open that format;
VPM is normally a text format. I suggest you check want format your pics
are. Normally when you click a pic in PG it will open the pic in the Photo
program you may have like Photo Shop.

--
Ian

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
"Ian Betts" wrote:

>
>
> "feroze_khan" <ferozekhan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8D089740-CDAB-4FB9-B3CC-C63714BDC88F@microsoft.com...
> > Every time I select 'view pictures in windows photo gallery' from the auto
> > play pop up, it opens up the windows photo gallery with an error "windows
> > photo gallery cannot open picture or video. either the file format is not
> > supported or you dont have the latest updates for windows photo gallery"
> > on a
> > window titled 'index.vpm'
> > However when I click on the next or previous button to view the pictures,
> > they show up fine. I was just wondering if I really need some updates for
> > windows (My vista ultimate says that windows is upto date) else my
> > pictures
> > are non supported file format (How come they do open fine with the left
> > and
> > the right arrow).
> > please help, I dont want to see the error when I preview my SD card
> > pictures
> > using the photo gallery via the auto play pop up.
> > I am able to explore my SD card and preview the selected pictures without
> > any problems.
> > Any help would be highly appreciated.
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> Photo Gallery is only a viewing program. It clearly cannot open that format;
> VPM is normally a text format. I suggest you check want format your pics
> are. Normally when you click a pic in PG it will open the pic in the Photo
> program you may have like Photo Shop.
>
> --
> Ian
>
>

"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

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
>
>

"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

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
>
>

"feroze_khan" <ferozekhan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:22DD73E6-09CC-4466-A5A7-FCC28084C639@microsoft.com...
> 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???


Not quite, Picasa just searches for graphics' including photos so you will
of course see things like ads and icon logos which are easily collectively
deleted afterwards if not required. The things you call unsupported files
are not graphics.

"Ian Betts" <ian.betts@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:E9BF8170-B510-461A-AF65-573F2D711E20@microsoft.com...
>
>
> "feroze_khan" <ferozekhan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:22DD73E6-09CC-4466-A5A7-FCC28084C639@microsoft.com...
>> 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???
>
>
> Not quite, Picasa just searches for graphics' including photos so you will
> of course see things like ads and icon logos which are easily collectively
> deleted afterwards if not required. The things you call unsupported files
> are not graphics.
>
Why no download it and give it a run. You can always delete it if it does
not suit. It will show pics, videos and you can use its basic manipulation
of your photos and easily size and send by email attachment from within the
program etc'.

No amount of description makes up for a test run.



--
Ian

With patience there is always a way.

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