Re: Thumbnails, and what creates them.

On Sun, 11/3/2024 7:03 PM, micky wrote:

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 3 Nov 2024 17:46:23 -0500, "Alan K."
<alan@invalid.com> wrote:
 

On 11/3/24 05:37 PM, micky wrote:

Thumbnails, and what creates them.
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I have a lot of pictures on my Android phone, and I copy them all to my
laptop, and I copy all of them to my backup drive.
>
  In
c:\users\[me]\appdata\roaming\MyPhoneExplorer\XiaomiRedmiNote8Pro[bunch
of numbers]\thumbnailcache\sdcard\DCIM, I have 5 entries, 4 created
today 3 of which are of photos I viewed today (and maybeeee the other
one?), and one created in April of a photo I viewed today.
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This implies, iiuc, that windows creates the thumbnail when I do
something, view the picture in any vieweer?   Some viewers?
>
At any rate, the thumbnail is used mostly, or entirely??, when using a
file manager that displays the thumbnails, right?
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So I don't have to worry about copying them to a final location, and in
fact I can delete them all, right?  If I ever need one, Windows will
recreate it????

Thumbnails will be recreated as needed if deleted at anytime.  The only downside is the need to
remake them.

 
Thanks.  It was disturbing because the file name is the same and it took
me a while to see that it was in a thumbnail directory.  I thought I had
failed to copy all my photos from the phone to the laptop, and unrelated
to thumbnails, later on I found out that was true.  Most of my pictures
were in external storage but over 100 were in internal storage and I
think I had never copied them from the phone.
 
I've been using MyPhoneExlorer to both connect the phone and to copy
from it, and I have to compare the source and dest each time to see what
to copy, but maybe all I need to do is plug the phone into a USB port
and use any of the Windows-based backup programs that don't copy what's
already copied.  Like robocopy or xxcopy.
 

The phone doesn't have a drive letter (meaning it is MTP and
not USB Mass Storage type).

Your phone is meant to be a puzzle. Mission accomplished.

*******

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/250944/how-to-make-a-full-local-backup-of-my-phone

   "There is no method to make a full backup of android smartphones.
    It is always only a partial backup"

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/226573/adb-pull-stops-after-first-error

It's the stuff nightmares are made of.

   Paul