Windows shows me the thumbnail images but doesn't create Thumbs.db

Question

I have some Revit files in a folder which Windows Explorer shows me the their thumbnails. See below.

However, I cannot locate thumbs.db in the folder. Any idea?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 18 '16 at 12:18

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Go to your folder options and make sure you have the circled items on this image selected as they are in the image.

If you do and it still isn't creating a Thumbs.db file then that is because these files aren't supported by windows natively. They just have an image preview handler and the preview images are being handled by an explorer extension (which would never use the MS Thumbs.db file). If it is an extension and it is caching the previews it isn't saving the cached info in Thumbs.db.

answered Mar 18 '16 at 12:18

krowe

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Thanks for the reply. My case is what you described in the last paragraph of your answer. Any idea how I can get access to those thumbnail images? I have thousands of these Revit files and I need to have a copy of their thumbnail images. I was hoping that I could muck around with thumbs.db :( – Bababarghi Mar 18 '16 at 12:33
http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2009/06/rvt-and-rfa-thumbnail-image.html – krowe Mar 18 '16 at 12:37
http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2010/06/open-revit-ole-storage.html – krowe Mar 18 '16 at 12:38
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb761844%28v=vs.85%29.aspx – krowe Mar 18 '16 at 12:40
Any explanation about above links is highly appreciated. – Bababarghi Mar 18 '16 at 12:57

Windows shows me the thumbnail images but doesn't create Thumbs.db

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