Features
Aug. 1, 2006
Tips & Tricks
By Sandra Rosenzweig
Here's the sitch: You try to copy a very large folder of photos to another drive and the task crashes your PC because, the error message says, thumbs.db is a system file and you aren't authorized to copy, move, or delete it. Thumbs.db? Each time you look at a folder's contents in thumbnail view, the system creates and saves (caches) a thumbs.db file. These unnecessary files accum...
Here's the sitch: You try to copy a very large folder of photos to another drive and the task crashes your PC because, the error message says, thumbs.db is a system file and you aren't authorized to copy, move, or delete it. Thumbs.db? Each time you look at a folder's contents in thumbnail view, the system creates and saves (caches) a thumbs.db file. These unnecessary files accum...
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