One photo directory corrupted?

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When I try to open one of my directories, which is many
large photos, I get the following error message.
Explorer.exe: Instruction 0x7c9111de referenced memory at
0x00000067. The memory could not be "read." I can't get
into the folder to fix anything or take anything out. I'm
in XP-SP2, though this predated loading SP2. If I click
OK, I lose Explorer. It also asks if I want to de-bug, but
I can't make hide nor hair of the code in my Developer.
I've read back about 15 pages and can't find this problem
dealt with. Appreciate any and all thoughts!
 
Well remove the photoes one by one till you find it. See if a File - Open dialog box will open the folder and work from that.
 
My PhotoShop 7 just shuts down immediately when I try to
open the directory. Search for .jpgs gets six thumbnails up
and then gives me the error. I can't seem to get into the
directory at all without crashing.

Got any File/Open ideas I haven't thought of?

Thanks for your time and thinking cap!
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Well remove the photoes one by one till you find it. See
if a File - Open dialog box will open the folder and work
from that.wrote in message news:[email protected]...
 
You can try IE. Start IE then type c:\ in the address bar. Office uses it's own File Open dialogs - try an office one.

Failing that, type cmd in Start Run
type
cd <path to directory> (eg cd c:\documents and settings\your name\my documents\my pictures)

Type
dir /a

then look at file 1 on list

move "c:\documents and settings\your name\my documents\my pictures\<file1.jpg> c:\someotherfolder

Try to open explorer, if it won't open do the second file on list.

PS There is a good chance that photoshop is responsible for this. It has an option to not generate thumbnails or something. I'm not a photoshop user.
 
I moved the whole directory to C:\ so it would be easier to
type the path. Lo and behold, I can open the directory.
What should I look for to see if something's corrupted now?
Thanks again for your help.
-----Original Message-----
You can try IE. Start IE then type c:\ in the address bar.
Office uses it's own File Open dialogs - try an office one.
Failing that, type cmd in Start Run
type
cd <path to directory> (eg cd c:\documents and
settings\your name\my documents\my pictures)
Type
dir /a

then look at file 1 on list

move "c:\documents and settings\your name\my documents\my
pictures\ said:
Try to open explorer, if it won't open do the second file on list.

PS There is a good chance that photoshop is responsible
for this. It has an option to not generate thumbnails or
something. I'm not a photoshop user.wrote in message news:[email protected]...
 
Move it back and see what happens (and up arrow keys retrieve the previous typed command in cmd). Does it still crash. Did you disable thumbnails in PS options.

Does the folder have the same appearance?
 
Moved it back. While I could get in there, I moved all the
..jpgs to an Images directory.

In Windows Explorer, I'm not getting the error message, but
the whole thing just disappears. I could go through the
images in Pictures and Fax Viewer while it was out on the
outer edges of the C:/ drive. I don't know if I disabled
the thumbnails thing, but I did whatever PhotoShop help
told me to do. Edit/preferences/filehandling/don't make
previews.

Thanks again. I'll keep trying to open the images one by
one somehow. There are about 400 of them.



-----Original Message-----
Move it back and see what happens (and up arrow keys
retrieve the previous typed command in cmd). Does it still
crash. Did you disable thumbnails in PS options.
Does the folder have the same appearance?
wrote in message news:[email protected]...
 
Try this (CD to the directory first)

for %A in (*.*) do start "" /w "%~A"

This will open each file one by one as if you dbl clicked. It will wait till you close a file then do the next. But your application may be able to read the file but not a thumbnail generator or a property extractor.
 
There's still a mystery here, but I've downloaded the
entire directory from a remote server and I can get into
that one, so I suppose it stays mysterious. Thanks for your
help, David. As we say in the South, 'preciate it. TT
-----Original Message-----
Move it back and see what happens (and up arrow keys
retrieve the previous typed command in cmd). Does it still
crash. Did you disable thumbnails in PS options.
Does the folder have the same appearance?
wrote in message news:[email protected]...
 
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