Awesome thumbnail trick

[inkman996]

I learned a great trick for when you go from a 32 bit system to a 64 bit and you lose all your PDF thumbnails and some jpegs.

Seems the thumbnails were created with 32bit dlls and requires 32bit to view. Anyways below is pasted how to view them if your like me and have gazillions of PDFs and realy need to see the thumbnail preview.


You must use the 32-bit version of Windows Explorer. The 32-bit version of Windows Explorer is located in the %windir%\Syswow64 folder on the computer that is running an x64-based version of Windows.
To use the 32-bit version of Windows Explorer, follow these steps:
Click Start, click Run, type the following in the Open box, and then click OK:
Drive_Letter:\windows\syswow64\explorer.exe /separate
Note The placeholder Drive_Letter represents the drive where the x64-based version of Windows is installed.

Now check if the issue is resolved.
You may want to try the following steps:
PDF thumbnail view via the Acrobat reader:
1. Run Acrobat Reader. In Reader, click File > Open and navigate to the folder(s) containing your PDF file(s). If necessary, move the slider to show all your PDF files.
2. Cancel out of Open and exit Reader.
3. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the folders(s) containing your PDF file(s).
4. Click Views and move the slider until you see PDF thumbnails.

[Denis Kolar]

I was wandering why the PDF files are not showing up on the desktop

Stupid P(iece of) C(rap)

[Dottonedan]

I haven't looked into it, but am also wondering what difference does 32 and 64 bit do for us?  Whats the dif?  Operating speed?  computer efficiency or is it image or file efficiency? improved image quality?  All I know is Adobe comes in both.

[ScreenFoo]

Memory addressing:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_address#Word_size_versus_address_size

[Dottonedan]

Memory addressing:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_address#Word_size_versus_address_size

Well then,  there ya go.  Thanks.  That does clear it up.

[inkman996]

Pretty sad that microsoft could not address this issue automatically with in the 64bit shell. Pretty much millions and millions of users will be switching over to 64bit as a standard and all of them will have this issue.

Adobe could have stepped up to the plate and surely built in something in their reader software to convert 32bit dlls to 64bit dlls on the fly.

I still want to kick MS in the nuts for making the new folder structuring so damn stupid.

[Gilligan]

Think about the difference between 8 bit color and 24 bit color... goes from 256 to 16,777,216... so as you see it's exponential.  The same is true from 32 bit to 64 bit... it's HUGE.

Mostly for you it has a lot to do with memory limits... for example:

Most 32-bit OSes really only let individual applications use 2 GB of RAM, even if you have 4 GB installed. This is because the other 2 GB of address space is reserved for sharing data between applications, with the OS, and for communicating with drivers. Windows and Linux will let you adjust this tradeoff to be 3 GB for applications and 1 GB shared, but this can cause problems for some applications that don't expect the change. I'm also guessing it might cripple a graphics card that has 1 GB of RAM (but I'm not sure). A 64-bit OS can give individual 32-bit applications closer to the full 4 GB to play with.

There is more memory registers in a 64 bit CPU (which are faster) so that speeds things up... and other great benefits... but the easy to quantify for you and what you do is that you aren't limited to 4gigs of system ram and then applications can use more as well.

[inkman996]

I know with Java if you have 32bit OS you are limited to allocated memory to Java. If you have 64bit OS you can run 64bit Java and allocate as much RAM to chosen application as desired. A lot of java based games such as Minecraft are extremely memory intensive and users running mine craft in 32bit have serious performance issues, they switch to 64bit and its like a new computer.

[royster13]

I learned a great trick for when you go from a 32 bit system to a 64 bit and you lose all your PDF thumbnails and some jpegs.

Seems the thumbnails were created with 32bit dlls and requires 32bit to view. Anyways below is pasted how to view them if your like me and have gazillions of PDFs and realy need to see the thumbnail preview.


You must use the 32-bit version of Windows Explorer. The 32-bit version of Windows Explorer is located in the %windir%\Syswow64 folder on the computer that is running an x64-based version of Windows.
To use the 32-bit version of Windows Explorer, follow these steps:
Click Start, click Run, type the following in the Open box, and then click OK:
Drive_Letter:\windows\syswow64\explorer.exe /separate
Note The placeholder Drive_Letter represents the drive where the x64-based version of Windows is installed.

Now check if the issue is resolved.
You may want to try the following steps:
PDF thumbnail view via the Acrobat reader:
1. Run Acrobat Reader. In Reader, click File > Open and navigate to the folder(s) containing your PDF file(s). If necessary, move the slider to show all your PDF files.
2. Cancel out of Open and exit Reader.
3. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the folders(s) containing your PDF file(s).
4. Click Views and move the slider until you see PDF thumbnails.

Or you could use Adobe Bridge......

[inkman996]

So everyone should own illustrator products?

[royster13]

So everyone should own illustrator products?

And Corel Draw.....I keep up to date in both......

[BorisB]

Think about the difference between 8 bit color and 24 bit color... goes from 256 to 16,777,216... so as you see it's exponential.  The same is true from 32 bit to 64 bit... it's HUGE.

Mostly for you it has a lot to do with memory limits... for example:

Most 32-bit OSes really only let individual applications use 2 GB of RAM, even if you have 4 GB installed. This is because the other 2 GB of address space is reserved for sharing data between applications, with the OS, and for communicating with drivers. Windows and Linux will let you adjust this tradeoff to be 3 GB for applications and 1 GB shared, but this can cause problems for some applications that don't expect the change. I'm also guessing it might cripple a graphics card that has 1 GB of RAM (but I'm not sure). A 64-bit OS can give individual 32-bit applications closer to the full 4 GB to play with.

There is more memory registers in a 64 bit CPU (which are faster) so that speeds things up... and other great benefits... but the easy to quantify for you and what you do is that you aren't limited to 4gigs of system ram and then applications can use more as well.

Due to Xerox not writing 64bit drivers for   production printer we use we have to stick to 32 bit OS for some comps. We installed SSD hard drives and that really sped up our work. I'm no expert and we didn't measure and compared to 64 bit OS on some other machines... But looks like we gained more speed this way.

Boris

[Gilligan]

Think about the difference between 8 bit color and 24 bit color... goes from 256 to 16,777,216... so as you see it's exponential.  The same is true from 32 bit to 64 bit... it's HUGE.

Mostly for you it has a lot to do with memory limits... for example:

Most 32-bit OSes really only let individual applications use 2 GB of RAM, even if you have 4 GB installed. This is because the other 2 GB of address space is reserved for sharing data between applications, with the OS, and for communicating with drivers. Windows and Linux will let you adjust this tradeoff to be 3 GB for applications and 1 GB shared, but this can cause problems for some applications that don't expect the change. I'm also guessing it might cripple a graphics card that has 1 GB of RAM (but I'm not sure). A 64-bit OS can give individual 32-bit applications closer to the full 4 GB to play with.

There is more memory registers in a 64 bit CPU (which are faster) so that speeds things up... and other great benefits... but the easy to quantify for you and what you do is that you aren't limited to 4gigs of system ram and then applications can use more as well.

Due to Xerox not writing 64bit drivers for   production printer we use we have to stick to 32 bit OS for some comps. We installed SSD hard drives and that really sped up our work. I'm no expert and we didn't measure and compared to 64 bit OS on some other machines... But looks like we gained more speed this way.

Boris

absolutely!

but getting above 4 gigs of ram is a nice boost for a lot of graphics users. that can only be done with 64 bits.