No thumbnails when saving PSD files.

[Letty2019]

Read every single post about this subject and nothing is working.

Best guess so far is that it's a system problem in WIN10 preventing the thumbs to show.

I still can't believe a problem like "thumbs" is even a problem with today's advanced computers.

Thumbs used to work, but stopped a few months ago. 

I'm on a PC, WIN10, GPU 3060Ti , PS 7 and PS latest.

Please somebody talk me off the ledge!

Thank you!!
Letty

[Trevor.Dennis]

Hi Letty

I take it you are referring to thumbnails in File Explorer which display with the icons as below?

Were you using a third party app like SageThumbs?  I have never used it myself, but the reviews look to be positive.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/sagethumbs/

BTW It's a very long time since PSD thumbs displayed natively, but it would be nice to have that feature back.  If you try SageThumbs, perhaps you'll come back and tell us how it worked for you?  Thanks

[Trevor.Dennis]

Hmmm...  I don't like the look of those reviews, so I am not going to risk it.

[Letty2019]

Thanks, I've been trying to find sagethumbs but after checking 5 online sources, they are all full of viruses and spyware.

The link you sent me had this embeded in the program:

If you got a clean version, I'm ready to install 🙂 Thanks.

 

[AxelMatt]

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Thumbs used to work, but stopped a few months ago. 

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By @Letty2019

What has been changed on your system before the issue occur?

You can also try MysticThumbs -> MysticThumbs - Image thumbnails for Windows Explorer. (mysticcoder.net)

[Letty2019]

Yikes $33 to see thumbnails that the system should auto post?  I don't get this mess. How could thumbs be an issue?

Only change I did was added a new gpu a few months back. 3060Ti.   Did all the monthly WIN10 updates.  😞

[AxelMatt]

Yikes $33 to see thumbnails that the system should auto post? 

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By @Letty2019

You must have installed any third party tool. Windows can't show the content of psd files as a thumbnail by its own.

On my system I see for psd files also only the PS icon as thumbnail.

[Letty2019]

Odd, because I've been seeing thumbs for my psd files for the last 10+ years.  I've been using PS7 the old version. Couple years ago installed PS cc.  I'm starting to give up on my quest. 

[Jeff Arola]

Photoshop 7 should generate thumbnails from psd files without having to install a third party codec.

However, the caveat is one needs to use psb 7 to navigate to the directly containing the psds in order to generate the thumbnails. I guess it's also possible that ps 7 won't generate accurate thumbnails from some psds made with the newest photoshop versions.

Also windows has a feature to delete the thumbnail cache every so often if you haven't turned that feature off.

[Letty2019 · Accepted solution]

Thank you for all the tips, but besides getting a 3rd party software to see psd's (which is very annoying to use) I have come to a simple conclusion.... (after researching about 30 blogs) It makes no sense that PSD thumbs will not show, but jpg's, et all and movie files will. The only conclusion is there is some type of license turf war going on with Microsoft and Adobe. It always comes down to money. PS is the dominant photo program and Microsoft wants a piece of the pie. Displaying a thumb image is computer 101 stuff. Turning off the thumbs is like a shot across the bow of a ship. Today it's thumbs, tomorrow it could be 'certain filters' not working, or crashing when applying the blur tool. Then Microsoft will introduce their new "glitch free" photo imaging software to directly compete with Adobe. Yes, this all sounds crazy, but I have not read anything that supports or corrects why a simple thumb can not be produced. It's ridiculous and annoying, but does seem to be a reality. We are witnessing and caught up in a turf war.

[rodrigounda]

2024 and I'm still unable to see thumbnails on .psd

win 10 ps 25. 32gb ram

[lorenat79988603]

Glad to see Im not the only one. Did this recently go away? I feel like I had it up until the last update or two ago....
Such a stupid issue to have.