Bedwyr Posted April 20, 2021 Posted April 20, 2021 Hi. New user recently migrated over from an aging copy of CS6. I've run across at least one topic regarding file type thumbnails, but I wanted to get a recommendation specifically for what I'm looking for. I understand that there's no direct functionality for providing preview thumbnails in Explorer. I'd still like to have thumbnails, but basically want the fewest other features. If possible, no context menu additions, no other functionality, just preview thumbnails. Which app/package is the least skeezy way of doing that? Quote
Andy05 Posted April 20, 2021 Posted April 20, 2021 The freeware (!) XnView might be worth a try. It's also a not-so-bad DAM, can show at least the embedded previews of .aphoto files and also adds thumbnails to Explorer's view. https://www.xnview.com/de/xnviewmp/ Quote »There are three responses to a piece of design: yes, no, and wow. Wow is the one to aim for.« Milton Glaser (1929 - 2020)
Bedwyr Posted April 20, 2021 Author Posted April 20, 2021 On the assumption from the link: Vielen Dank. Ich werde es versuchen. (did I get it right?) Quote
Andy05 Posted April 20, 2021 Posted April 20, 2021 Dang, sorry for posting the German link. I used a different browser than my standard one in order to find that URL, so the one I used was set to my system language (German). But the software should be multi-lingual. Quote »There are three responses to a piece of design: yes, no, and wow. Wow is the one to aim for.« Milton Glaser (1929 - 2020)
Bedwyr Posted April 20, 2021 Author Posted April 20, 2021 No problem. I just wanted to see if I remembered something from the language without looking it up. Quote
Andy05 Posted April 20, 2021 Posted April 20, 2021 2 minutes ago, Bedwyr said: No problem. I just wanted to see if I remembered something from the language without looking it up. Oh. Ok. 😄 In that case: yes, that German part was correct. Bedwyr 1 Quote »There are three responses to a piece of design: yes, no, and wow. Wow is the one to aim for.« Milton Glaser (1929 - 2020)
Bedwyr Posted April 21, 2021 Author Posted April 21, 2021 (edited) Hi again. I tried XnView and, while it does do things nicely, I'd prefer not to supplant Windows Explorer. I tried SageThumbs and that appears to have done exactly what I wanted without arbitrarily filling my context menu with entries. Because it's related to XnView, it put me on the right track. Thank you for the help. edit: oh dear. Sagethumb gave up on particularly large files and simply displayed a blank file. I think previews simply might be more trouble than they're worth. At a later time I might revisit this and look for a file manager like XnView that does things akin to Bridge, I suppose. Thanks for your help in any case. Edited April 21, 2021 by Bedwyr Quote
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