[Gabriel]

Hi, I posted a similar thread in another forum part, but am getting no answer, so it must be in the wrong place, and I know you digital image pros can answer it here....I have these 1.6KB tiny thumbnail JPEGS of my photos that are in MY DOCUMENTS,..they have little blue E's on them.....how are they created....I don't remember doing them.......are they created automatically from my Adobe photo-editing program when I edit photos?...Any insight would be appreciated.....THANKS

[xgerryx]

If you change the image file type the icons will change to represent the new type.
Does the E look like the E from Internet explorer.

[Gabriel]

Yes, They are Internet Explorer E's.....How do I change the image file types......are they useful for anything as tiny thumbnails?

[xgerryx]

Right click one of the icons and click properties. What file type does it say it is.

[Gabriel]

The file type is JPG file, and it opens with Abobe....It is not the IE, E, but rather the adobe photosop emblem on them....some of the editing I do must create this type of thumbnail and put it in this folder????? But what are they good for?

[RT]

It seems that Adobe is the program associated with JPG files on your computer.
You can change that, if you want, by right clicking any jpg and "Open with..." and choose another program, be aware of the "Always use this program..." box that you can check/uncheck. You may not want to do that if you use Adobe as your main editor/viewer, but it's easy to switch programs.

The thumbnails I find useful to locate an image faster if I cannot recall the filename, or even the folder it's in. Which is quite often.

You can change the view to not show the thumbs, if you wish, too. Open the folder and choose View from the drop down menu. That will show your options to view as thumbnails, icons, a list of the filenames, etc.

I'm betting there's a setting in your Adobe PS that is automatically saving a copy (if not the real file itself) in the My Documents folder by default. You should be able to change that too - not having PhotoShop, can't help you there - but I bet it's in there somewhere.

[xgerryx]

As long as you can open them with whatever program you choose you don't really have a problem. It probably means that photoshop is set as your default viewer. If using xp you can change this by right clicking the icon, open with and choose program, then put a tick in the box that says "always use this program to open this kind of file."

[Gabriel]

Thank all of you...this info will help me a lot

[acraftylady]

Could it be they changed the phtoshop icon on the photos some how to the IE icon thus the photos open in photos shop but have the IE icon? You know if you go into folder options and file types you can change icons for things in there. I played around in there once doing this but I can't remember how to do it.