media folders crash explorer

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chriske911

I have a lot of folders containing media files
so far only the folders containing video files of all nature make
explorer restart every time
I can reproduce this by going to that folder again
this was also happening in previous build 5600

anyone else?

grtz
 
Most likely it is trying to build thumbnails and failing. you can try to
re-load, and get a good codec back, if you are using a lot of AVIs and such.
Check the consistency of it. If it is certain folders that are crashing
Explorer, then there is a corrupt file in teh folder that is causing this.
Try to get it, see where it locks and delete the file(s) causing the problem.
My experience with media crashing windows is that it is usually a folder
with a lot of media and only 1 or 2 files causing the crash.
You can go into your settings and disable thumbnails. then see what you can
do. If you can get intp the folder, open the files one by one, until you
crash, then you know which file to delete. Corrupt files either will not
play, or will crash explorer the moment you try to open it..

Hope this helps :-)
 
Gene Fitz explained on 22/10/2006 :
Most likely it is trying to build thumbnails and failing. you can try to
re-load, and get a good codec back, if you are using a lot of AVIs and such.
Check the consistency of it. If it is certain folders that are crashing
Explorer, then there is a corrupt file in teh folder that is causing this.
Try to get it, see where it locks and delete the file(s) causing the problem.
My experience with media crashing windows is that it is usually a folder
with a lot of media and only 1 or 2 files causing the crash.
You can go into your settings and disable thumbnails. then see what you can
do. If you can get intp the folder, open the files one by one, until you
crash, then you know which file to delete. Corrupt files either will not
play, or will crash explorer the moment you try to open it..
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Hope this helps :-)
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"chriske911" wrote:
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winxp and all other OS I have on this machine have no problem with the
same folder but the codec cache is indeed different for any of them

could be that you are right, video files can get corrupted and still be
playable but the main file manager in a cutting edge OS crashing over
this seems a bit awkward, don't you agree?

since this is a test release I am testing it and sofar I have come
across so many errors that already existed in previous versions of the
OS that I am wondering if MS has changed any code at all since win95
B-)

grtz
 
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