Hi

I have a lot of photos on my laptops hard drive that I regulary back up to an external 2.5 portable drive. I check the file sizes in properties of each to make sure that both are the same, with the same amount of files etc. However it always includes thumbs.db (with show hidden files off), so I delete them all but its getting annoying. I read I can turn off thumbs.db with gpedit.msc but I can't seem to find it on my laptop (win 7 home premium x64). Or is there a better way/program I can use to make backing up of photos more easy?

Thanks

Hi

I have a lot of photos on my laptops hard drive that I regulary back up to an external 2.5 portable drive. I check the file sizes in properties of each to make sure that both are the same, with the same amount of files etc. However it always includes thumbs.db (with show hidden files off), so I delete them all but its getting annoying. I read I can turn off thumbs.db with gpedit.msc but I can't seem to find it on my laptop (win 7 home premium x64). Or is there a better way/program I can use to make backing up of photos more easy?

Thanks

Wouldn't it be easier to use a "mirroring" utility and (optionally) exclude thumbs.db?

Something like:

http://www.mirrorfolders.com/en/index.html

http://titan.fsb.hr/~dzorc/zback.html

http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html

(only examples)

jaclaz

To disable thumbs.db files.

gpedit.msc didn't work on my windows as I only have Home Premium and need Professional or higher. But I found a registry file for Windows 7 on how to disable thumbs.db, I think it is working..

If anyone needs it, add this to a .reg file -

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

"NoThumbnailCache"=dword:00000001