Windows 10 JPG Thumbnails Not showing

[Ben-B]

I'm not sure what changed recently, but when viewing a folder of images in Windows 10, with Thumbnail view (medium or larger), a lot of them are showing blank white space where the thumbail should be, others show the thumbnail fine. The only advice I can find online is for enabling thumbnails if they've been disabled, I've seen nothing about Windows showing some, and missing others. I went and checked older folders, in case it was just happening to recent images, but it does it all folders. Some have thumbnails, some don't.

I'm a photographer, so spend a LOT of my time working going through images. I use various different bits of software for thumbnail viewing, but a lot of the time simply grabbing an image based on its thumbnail in Windows Explorer is important.

 

[boodaddy]

Sounds like your thumbnail cache may have been corrupted. You can clear this very easily, and windows will re-scan/cache the images in the folder when you go into it.

1. Open Windows Explorer
2. Right-Click on C: & Click "Properties"
3. Click "Disk Cleanup"
4. Make sure "Thumbnails" is checked. You can also check anything else you wish to clean up. I always check everything.
5. Select "OK" Then click on "Delete Files"
6. Reboot. Please reboot first before going back into the images folder.

Good Luck