Vista - Windows Media Center and image files

I've had Vista Home Premium installed on my desktop PC for over a year now,
but I never used Windows Media Center until recently and noticed this problem
when I purchased a Media Center Extender. After choosing the folders (music,
video and image) that I wanted in my WMC library (on BOTH my desktop PC AND
Media Center Extender), only my image files do not appear in the libraries.
Under "Picture Library" (again, on both units), all folders and sub-folders
which I selected are shown but contain no "items". The files which I desire
to view are .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, and .bmp formats and I have converted some
back and forth between formats to see if that changed anything. Can anyone
steer me in the right direction on this? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

There is a limitation as to which folders containing images can be viewable
on an extender, even though they are in a monitored folder and are viewable
in WMP. I have my images on a seperate partition in a "pictures" folder.
These are visible in WMP but not on the extender (the folder is monitored by
WMP/WMC). When I move the images to the official or system "My Pictures"
folder, the images are now viewable.

Try moving your images to public/picutres or the pictures folder for your
logon account.

"dsweida" wrote:

Why is that true ONLY of images since it is NOT the case with music,
playlists, or video files. All of my media is located on a secondary drive
and everything else plays fine on both the extender and on WMC on my PC. And
why would WMC on my PC be similarly unable to view those same images?
Anyway, I'll test it out with the "official" My Pictures folder as you
suggest and see what happens. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

"Don W" wrote:

Ok, I moved several folders of images to the "official" My Pictures folder
and the results were no different after being added to the libraries of BOTH
the extender and WMC on my PC. In both cases, the main folder as well as all
of the subfolders were displayed properly just without any images present.
Based on that, I would have to conclude that location of the files is not the
problem. Any more ideas?

"Don W" wrote:

Your conclusion is unfounded.
Do not store files in any folder starting with "My". In Vista they are not
real folders. They are junction points.
See this:
http://www.svrops.com/svrops/articles/jpoints.htm
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"dsweida" <dsweida@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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The folder (on the secondary hard drive) with which I have been experiencing
this problem is "Pictures" (not MY Pictures). I only experimented with the
My Pictures folder at the suggestion of the previous responder, and it has no
relation to my problem as originally posted. Now what?

"Bob" wrote:

I have exactly the same problem. My files are JPG or JPEG. All the folders
appear with images in Pictures. Alll the folders are shown in Windows media
centre, but no images with a very few exceptions and these are TIFF files. I
await the solution with interest. Thanks

"dsweida" wrote:

Me too. I have posted this problem several times and gotten very few
suggestions (and no follow-ups from the ones that have replied).

"Mick" wrote:

Any idea where we go from here for a solution? I havea new computer but the
shop knows nothing. have you tried Microsoft support?
Anybody out there got a solution please. Thanks

"dsweida" wrote:

I would try Microsoft directly, but I've had Vista for over a year and am
WELL outside of free tech support (and I am certainly not paying to get
transferred from one foreign tech support agent to the next for scripted
troubleshooting). If you have a new computer, you should be able to get
support for free (within 90 days of purchase I think). If you get and
answer, please post on here.

"Mick" wrote: