I have a similar problem to the one Jay had, but I don't use Photoshop. If
I try and scroll down one particular (large) folder of pictures, and if I
have the view by "Thumbnails" option on, likely as not the entire folder
will suddenly disappear from the screen. I can reopen it, but now it's even
more likely that the same thing will happen. If I have view by "List" or
"Details" on instead, it seems to always work. Very frustrating, because
who can remember what "P2349737.jpg" was?

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)


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Jay Honeck wrote:

Like many of you, I keep a LOT of pictures on my hard drive. Also,
like many of you, I use Adobe Photoshop to crop and enhance my photos.

I have had an infuriating problem with Windows Explorer (in Win XP,
both Home and Professional) crashing instantly and utterly when trying
to open a folder with many .jpg picture files in it. It wouldn't do it
all the time, but when it did, it was always fatal -- there was no
warning, and no work-around.


What's a lot of pictures? I have 5 folders, labeled by year for the last
5 years. Each folder has several hundred pictures. 90+ percent of the
pictures have been fixed or cropped and every one of them has had their
name changed. Every one of them is a jpg. I use 3 different programs for
working with these pictures, but Photoshop is not one of them. Not once
has windows or just windows explorer crashed. I've never even heard of
the problem.