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[Mighty_A-MAN]

Hi there,


I bought a new computer and transferred all my library files (music, pictures, videos) to the new PC. I used the same drive letter and folder as on th old PC (which is my backup system now) and also transfered the MC library itself.

All works fine, however, a huge amount of thumbnails of videos is not showing up, which it still does on the old PC. Most of the files are some from my digital camera, so it's a "normal" supported format. I can watch them without any problems, but I will never see a thumbnail. As said, some show up, most don't and I have no clue what to do. (I tried to solve the problem through "Import Media/Build missing thumbnails" but that didn't help at all.)


Thanks in advance,

Mighty A-MAN

Media Center Registered 11.0.254 -- C:\Programme\Media Center 11\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 3191 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1048 MB, Free - 524 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2900.2627 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.050309-1648) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2900.2620 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.050225-1820) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping /   Drive X:   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Drive Y:   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No 

Burning /  Drive X: PIONEER  DVD RW  DVR-109    Addr: 0:0:0  Speed:48  MaxSpeed:48  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[glynor]

This is probably because the location where MC stores it's thumbnails was recently changed from inside the Library to your /Documents and Settings/[username]/Application Data/J River/ folder (I think that's where it is, I'm on a Mac now so I can't check) and you didn't move those files to the new computer too.

The problem is that when you tell MC to rebuild the Thumbnails, it skips those because the Library database says that you already have the thumbnails built for those files (which you do, just on the old machine).

I would probably just erase all your thumbnails (Options > Tree & View > Thumbnails) and then do a Build Missing Thumbnails to recreate them all.  If you have a big library, it'll take a while but should work.

[Mighty_A-MAN]

Hi Glynor,


Thanks for your message, which sounds pretty logic!   

While I also moved all the CD covers and secure rip protocols, I did not think about the thumbnail folder.

I'll try that way and assume it will help. Otherwise I will shout again.


Thanks,

Mighty A-MAN

[Mighty_A-MAN]

Oh, yes, it works!

I just deleted the thumbnails and then opened the different categories inside MC (video, pictures) and the thumbnails will be build and show up immediately as in the past.


Thanks again,

Mighty A-MAN   

[glynor]

Glad I could help!