"Jay Honeck" writes:

Microsoft has been strangely silent on this problem, much to my dismay.
Luckily, today I FINALLY found the solution. The glitch has to do
with the icons that are used in Explorer to denote a picture file, and
(in turn) it's also directly related to having Photoshop set up as your
default picture viewer. Further, it also is directly related to having
folder names that are longer than 10 characters long -- something XP
can handle, but (apparently) Photoshop cannot.

SO, long story short, there are now TWO work-arounds to this problem:

1. Uninstall Photoshop, and reinstall it without making it the default
picture file viewer for .jpg flies. This allows you to still use long
folder names.

2. Leave Photoshop as is, but be sure to keep your file names to 10 or
fewer characters in length.

I have chosen the latter course, for now, and it works.

Why the heck Microsoft or Adobe couldn't simply announce this
problem/fix is beyond me -- it's been a hot topic of discussion all
over the 'net, and most people with XP and Photoshop have experienced
it at times. It took a generous computer sleuth to figure out the
solution, through trial and error, and post it online.

Glad you got your problem resolved.

I find it interesting that, although photography is my main hobby, and
I participate in many photo newsgroups and mailing lists, I've never
heard anybody mention a problem like this, and never experienced it
myself. However, I've never had Photoshop as my default viewer, I
find it rather overkill (IrfanView is my default viewer; I can
transfer to photoshop from within IrfanView and from within Thumbs
Plus).
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