Hi everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with another tech-torial for you.
This time on working with the folder view in Windows
and the image thumbnails. If you know how
you see a thumbnail view for your photos like here and it makes it convenient so
you know what the photo is rather than just going by the name of the photo but
have you ever had the case where you're opening up a folder and it's just not
showing you the thumbnails they're just coming up like this.
Well I'm going to explain how it's such a quick and easy fix here
Coming right up...
Alright, so quickly real quick shout out thank you to Hugh Barnsley for this
question and it prompted the making of this video.
link to him here.
So the problem is quite simple here and I'm gonna show you the
solution to it as well as some other things so even though it's a quick
answer that's faster than the introduction to this video stick around
because I'm gonna show you a few other things that you might not know about
with working with the folders. So let's have a look at my screen here.
When you're looking at the screen and you have a folder here for example I've got
a folder for clips and it's showing a list of Clips so I want to go into view
here, large icons, medium, usually even large or extra-large should show you the
thumbnails but instead we're seeing this view here which is not very helpful at all.
So the problem with this if we go back to this other screen here as we'll
see it's a zip folder it's not a regular folder that's what the problem is.
So the solution is we've got to unzip it. So how do you unzip it. You're thinking you just
double click on it and view it. There's a couple of ways of doing it, you could
just right-click on it and say extract all but there's also when you click on
it a folder appears up here that says extract, compress folder tools, if you
click on that then you'll see extract all and it will prompt you the location
of where it's gonna unzip it to and it'll put it in the same folder by default.
So I'm gonna uncheck to show the extracted files when complete
just so that we can see here
that the folder is now created in that same location with the same name
so if I click on that folder and go into it now I can actually see the thumbnails
for that folder. It's as simple as that you just need to unzip the folder now
there's a lot of options in here most people don't even look at them you're
just working with your files opening them. So like all the other folders that
you have within windows there's a lot of options in here. So there's some quick
shortcuts up in the top where if you hover the mouse over usually it will
tell you, you know, you got your quick menu there to close, minimize, and so on
you've got a properties button so whatever the folder is that your
highlighted on will give you the properties for that and you can create a
new folder inside of this folder right from there and then this other little
drop-down menu gives you some more options where you can customize the
quick access adding the undo, redo, delete, rename, and a couple other things here to
show the ribbon below or minimize the ribbon so that is something as well that
giving you a little bit extra space here I've had people do this by accident and
then you click on it and you can see the options here but if you are just looking
at the folders you might be thinking well where's all my options that were up
here there are they're gone it's because this is set to minimize so you could go
back over here and uncheck that to minimize the ribbon but you could also
just do what you probably did in the first place which accidentally minimized
it is just double click on it and now as I'm looking around on the
different files or moving around it's keeping that ribbon open so I can see
all of the properties still I've seen that happen many times and I've done it
myself too. It's just a slip of the finger.
You accidentally double-click when you meant to a single click and maybe it's too
much coffee, I don't know what it is, but somehow this kind of stuff can happen
and for the average person if they don't know that that's a shortcut and what
it's actually done they just start freaking out when they double-click on it
by accident and think oh crap! Where's all the options gone to? click once and it
shows them and click off and it disappears or just double click on any
one of these tabs and it will bring it back or go up to the menu here and you
can minimize and uncheck the minimize even showing the... you know changing the
location of the ribbon. The ribbons above these quick access things. So that just
moves that around for you and within each one of these tabs Microsoft has
tried to organize things in a way that makes sense so your home screen is what
you have by default and that's what you use most of the time when you're
highlighting something you've got the ability to copy and paste or cut and
moving it or copying it somewhere else or deleting it, you know, renaming and
making new folders so those are all pretty common things as well and under
the sharing, depending on what other software you have installed, you may see
some other things in here and depending on the version of Windows you may have
some encryption here as well.
There's some advanced security options we're not going to go
into too much detail in that but under view this is something to help you view
your folders a little bit better so we've got the thumbnail view as we know
Captain Obvious appropriate timing medium list
you've got detailed view which sometimes if you want to have that you can click
on any one of these headings so if you wanted to sort of by the date or the
type to see all of the same type together and the size maybe to see which
is the longest one so whatever you click on it'll sort it by that and clicking it
again changes it from ascending to descending order and clicking again
reverses it back again one thing that I found that's a little bit annoying like
that fan I should have turned off first I'm gonna just turn that off
okay so one of the things that I found that's a little bit annoying and you
might find as well and you wouldn't even know what to call it is in group buy and
it will group the folders and files by alphabet or somehow it'll come up with
some way if you click on group by you can choose are you grouping it by the
names by the dates by the type so you can see here it'll group them that way
and then as they're grouped you can still sort them by any one of these
columns but they're still categorized at the same time so you'd be clicking
around like crazy on these buttons or on the headings trying to sort it by one of
these headings and it's still having two groups so you go to group by and select
none that takes out the grouping and now it's simply sorted by whatever heading
that you have that selected on. I think that's a big one you can also choose
sort by and choose the options from here and there's other things here you can
add more columns for the folder that may not be showing depending on what you
have in that folder there'll be columns by default based on
the type of files you have for example the length column that only makes sense
if it's a video or a music file if they're just pictures there is no length
to a picture so that folder or that column wouldn't even be there.
You would have the hidden files option you can turn on and off and for me I usually
seem to have that on because I can see things that might have gotten hidden or
even viruses that can go in your system a lot of times they'll hide themselves
so you won't even know that they're in there.
So it can give you a little bit too much and it can be overwhelming
for most people and you'll see ghost files of things that you're working on
so normally maybe you want to leave that off but at least you know that's there
and there is an options button where you can go in here change folder and search
options and something else here now I've already got this changed on mine is by
default when you open the file explorer goes to the quick access view and for me
I like to see the this PC view and it gives you the hard drives that you have
installed on the system your documents pictures downloads instead of quick
access just showing you the last things you worked on well I'm constantly
working on different things so I don't really need the last thing I worked on
I'm working on stuff right from the Documents folder and this now as well
you might be in the past we'd have to change it because it was annoying having
each folder you click on it would open it in its own window and then all of a
sudden you've got dozens of folders open so having it opened in the same window
it saves on memory as well on your computer so you're not having so many
folders open and really you just need that one that you're working on you're
just trying to drill down through the subfolders so you might want to make
sure that's on and yeah the quick access if you're making use of that to show
recently used files and a quick access you can even clear them out there so
that you're not getting all the history but you can work with the current recent
files that you're working on and not having all the other crap but if you
have open file explorer to this PC then the quick access thing may not even
matter as much to you anyway so that's in the folder options under options and
change folder and search options and because this is a video folder
there's video tools on here if I have a picture highlighted it says picture tools
So depending on what you click on there may be other options appear up
here and I was gonna go back to show you the zip folder again because that's
where we saw it zipped but that reminded me a quick way of going back is clicking on
one of these so you can see here as you highlight the mouse over top of one of
these that basically tells you which one you're gonna click on and you can jump
back to that specific folder so if I highlight this zip folder we have a
compressed folders tools so that is basically the quick short version of
using the folders in Windows and hopefully that helps you with your
organizing of your files, videos, music, and so on and if you guys have other
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