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| From | Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android |
| Subject | Re: Thumbnails, and what creates them. |
| Date | 2024-11-03 21:50 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vg9cpt$oua4$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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Cross-posted to 2 groups.
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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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
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Thumbnails, and what creates them. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-11-03 17:37 -0500
Re: Thumbnails, and what creates them. "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2024-11-03 17:46 -0500
Re: Thumbnails, and what creates them. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-11-03 19:03 -0500
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Re: Thumbnails, and what creates them. Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-11-09 00:45 +0000
Re: Thumbnails, and what creates them. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-11-08 10:26 +0000
Re: Thumbnails, and what creates them. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-11-04 15:41 +0000
Re: Thumbnails, and what creates them. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-11-06 11:03 -0500
Re: Thumbnails, and what creates them. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-11-03 21:16 -0500
Re: Thumbnails, and what creates them. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-11-03 23:01 -0500
Re: Thumbnails, and what creates them. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-11-04 03:46 -0500
Re: Thumbnails, and what creates them. "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-11-05 12:23 +0100
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