TechMike Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 HiI have a lot of photos on my laptops hard drive that I regulary back up to an external 2.5 portable drive. I check the file sizes in properties of each to make sure that both are the same, with the same amount of files etc. However it always includes thumbs.db (with show hidden files off), so I delete them all but its getting annoying. I read I can turn off thumbs.db with gpedit.msc but I can't seem to find it on my laptop (win 7 home premium x64). Or is there a better way/program I can use to make backing up of photos more easy? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 HiI have a lot of photos on my laptops hard drive that I regulary back up to an external 2.5 portable drive. I check the file sizes in properties of each to make sure that both are the same, with the same amount of files etc. However it always includes thumbs.db (with show hidden files off), so I delete them all but its getting annoying. I read I can turn off thumbs.db with gpedit.msc but I can't seem to find it on my laptop (win 7 home premium x64). Or is there a better way/program I can use to make backing up of photos more easy? ThanksWouldn't it be easier to use a "mirroring" utility and (optionally) exclude thumbs.db?Something like:http://www.mirrorfolders.com/en/index.htmlhttp://titan.fsb.hr/~dzorc/zback.htmlhttp://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html(only examples)jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allen2 Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 To disable thumbs.db files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechMike Posted March 11, 2012 Author Share Posted March 11, 2012 gpedit.msc didn't work on my windows as I only have Home Premium and need Professional or higher. But I found a registry file for Windows 7 on how to disable thumbs.db, I think it is working..If anyone needs it, add this to a .reg file - Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]"NoThumbnailCache"=dword:00000001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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