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    1. Re: [FO] Why is FO 90.2 doubling the files of scanned photos?
    2. Wayne League
    3. [email protected] wrote: > Am I doing something wrong when I scan photos into the "scrapbook"? >They appear to be going into the database alright (I can see them almost >immediately) but now "My Documents" is jammed full of their files... two for >every scan. Why two? The .THU files are small thumbnail versions of the photo file and are used to quickly display the photo on screen in print previews of reports that include photos. When you actually print out the photo report the larger file with better resolution is used. When you deleted the .THU file you no longer saw the photo displayed on the main screen, but if you open the scrapbook and display that photo there then FO will recreate the .THU file and you will again see the photo displayed in the main view. Whenever you remove a photo from the FO scrapbook, FO will delete the associated .THU file. When you scan photos and don't want them in your My Documents folder then you should change that to your photo folder in the file finder dialog that FO presents to you when saving the scanned photo file. If you want to move all your existing photo files to a different folder, you can do that from the windows explorer. You can highlight all the photo files in your My Documents folder (including all the .thu files), click on the 'cut' button, then go to the folder where you want to move them to and click on the 'paste' button in the windows explorer tool bar. After you do that, FO will not be able to find them for it is still looking for them in your My Documents folder. So, you must open FO again and use the global search/replace tool to change all the multimedia filenames to the path of the folder where you have relocated your photos. Wayne League

    07/18/2002 01:49:57