Photoshop thumbnails and CS4

I have found Bridge CS4 a vast improvement over the CS3 version, I actually use it now. I had to use Bridge 2 to get any work done.

If you put it that way, I quite agree!

Even with a decent Bridge, that starts up in <1 second now, and is correspondingly quick in operation, it would be nice not to see those ugly generic icons in Windows.

mmmh, not exactly, John, rather "Having Icons of Photoshop files in Explorer that would not lock files would sure be part of our User Experience!"

> Having Icons of Photoshop files in Explorer is was sure part of our User Experience!

Fixed that for you Pierre! ;)

Welcome, Brandon, thanks for offering a helping hand! I'm wondering: is it Mark Hamburg that suggested Microsoft Employees to show up in here?
Having Icons of Photoshop files in Explorer is sure part of our User Experience!

Sorry didn't mean for that to sound so snarky, just trying to help out! :)

>Blaming your bugs on the OS ...

Aha, a Microsoft techie is challenging an Adobe techie to a dual. I'm sitting on the sidelines with interest. :)

Chris et al -

Which API and supposed bug are you referring to?

If you use IInitializeWithStream for your thumbnail provider, that will help prevent your code from messing up others trying to access the file. Just don't leak any references to the stream.

If you are having the shell initialize your handler with a file path / IShellItem / pidl, and having problems properly managing access to the file, you should let me know and I'll do my best to help you (or get you in touch with our platform PM who I know would be happy to help you out).

Blaming your bugs on the OS is so tacky =P

Thanks,
Brandon Paddock
http://brandonlive.com

so long as you got the message... pass it on yeah.