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Thumbnail cache issues in Windows

Megalith

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Just curious how many people have issues with the thumbnail cache in Windows. Like, folders showing thumbnails of photos that belong to other folders in completely different directories.

This is happening to some of my folders and I feel like it's spreading like a fucking disease. I have already tried emptying the entire cache folder and turning caching on and off, but nothing is clearing them (although hitting "restore default" under folder pictures sometimes works).
 
If you're using Win 8.x, the IconCache.db file in C:\Users\[User]\AppData\Local may have been there like it was in Win 7 and earlier, but Win 8.x and later don't actually use that file anymore. Instead, go to:

C:\Users\[User]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer

You will find a bunch of files beginning with iconcache such as iconcache_32.db, iconcache_48.db and so on, and also a bunch of files beginning with thumbcache_32.db, thumbcache_48.db and so on.

If you try to delete them using the Windows GUI, not all of them will be deletable because Windows Explorer is using them. To delete ALL of those files, you need to run a command prompt, use the CLI to navigate to the folder with the files, force-quit Explorer using the Task Manager, and use the command prompt to delete the files:

del iconcache*
del thumbcache*

Then Ctrl-Alt-Del and Sign Off. When you sign back in, they should be fixed.
 
Yeah, I did that, although there was one icon_cache or thumb_cache file that couldn't be deleted ("access denied") even though I had Explorer shut down. There is no other location where Windows keeps its thumbnails in, so I am at a total loss as to how some folders are still stuck with incorrect thumbnails. I've even tried deleting every single desktop.ini file I could, but that didn't solve anything.

This isn't worth formatting over, but that seems to be the only solution.
 
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