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Thanks Sarkut Tried that and something seems to work. First time I reopened Paint.net the stored images remained the same size as the original....but only the first two. Thereafter it behaved itself. I couldn't find the thumbs.db file but instead there's a tick box - Do not cache thumbnails. I ticked that and hoped! Problem (at least temporarily) solved but I'll come back in a few days when I do another batch of pix, if the same problem arises. Typically another problem came up - insufficient storage space. Had to stop editing. Easy!!! Simply close Paint.net and reopen it again. Storage emptied.....at least I think so! Or at least I was able to proceed again without any problem.... Oh well........!!! :?

Sometimes - but not consistently...... At one time (probably when I first started using Paint.net) I seem to remember being offered that advice and I followed it - with (mainly) good results. So, of late, I've taken to renaming all my images before I crop them....but to no general avail. (What that has solved is that I now know the subject of a photo even if it shows up incorrectly!) The problem isn't constant. Sometimes I can run through a whole batch (30-50 usually) of photos without any problem....but then last night, the problems both arose quite extensively. I had 96 photos of about 25 items to edit and decided to rename them all. Having done so, I changed my view (this is all in Window Explorer), from thumbnails to details, so that I could relist them in alphabetical order. I changed the view back to thumbnails and then opened the Paint.net editing tool. Then when I opened the file, I found that the first two photos had changed themselves into another item from well down the batch. They were still named correctly but were dislayed wrongly. When I brought them up for editing they were the right pictures.... Looking at my Explorer folder, this error was now evident there too..... It had made me think that it was a Windows Explorer problem (rather than Paint.net) but it only happens when I edit photos. I'm beginning to get confused myself.... :? *** Hi Rick - Hmmmm - I'll have to look into that....

I bet this these are questions that have come up before, because they've been happening to me ever since I first used Paint.net some 4 - 5 years ago. There are two anomolies..... I sell on eBay and take photos of items for sale. I use the photo editor to crop the pictures and also to reduce the size in the process - it takes a lifetime to upload a 12Mg photo onto eBay! However, quite often, I find that the saved photo appears the same size as the original - it doesn't show the cropped close-up. However, when I click on it, it does...... And there's a further related strange effect. If I'm editing a whole series of photos, quite often the photo, when saved back on my computer, will show a different picture. But again, when I click on it, the correct photo appears. Usually the picture is the next one in the series - but not always. Please can someone solve these problems for me. PS In case anyone wonders why I haven't raised the matter before - well, it's like most things - you get used to it....! :?

That's excellent, Brad - many thanks. All done and dusted - easy peasy - especially when you know how!! PS - love reading this forum....so many useful and clever ideas on offer. Some brilliant minds out there! Thanks again. Chris

I’ve just had to have my 6 month old computer formatted (Windows XP Home) due to a deeply embedded virus :evil: that snuck past my defences, so I’m now going through the process of reinstalling umpteen useful programs – including this one, of course. However when I tried to do so (from http://www.download) the message came up that……. “Paint.NET requires that the .NET framework is installed. Go to Microsoft’s webpage where you can download and install this.” Fair enough – so I followed the link. I found the right program, clicked on the button and after waiting while the program tried to download, another error message came up……”This computer does not meet the requirements to install this software. Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1” :?: Please could someone tell me why my computer has become ‘out of date’ or whatever? :?: Is it safe to load Installer 3.1 on my existing system? :?: Why do I need all these installations when the last time I installed Paint.NET, it downloaded simply and easily without me being told to install any other programs? PS – In the interim, because I urgently needed a photo editing tool, I downloaded and installed PhotoFiltre….it took a minute or two and needed no extras.

Thanks for that…glad it’s not just me! I managed to return the rightful pictures to their places, simply by renaming them, of all things! They’d been stored initially as Picture 001, Picture 002, etc. As soon as I renamed them “Train Set” or “Dart Board”, the correct pictures reappeared. I could presumably have named them 1 or 2 or 3 and sorted it out….so I live and learn. Most strange! :? Anyway, Paint.NET is an excellent tool despite that strange glitch – and one which I really don’t use enough. Nice to find your forum and your helpful and quick response. And ‘no’ – I don’t blame your system for everything! Cheers

In 'My Pictures' folder in my computer, I loaded some 40 or so photos of various items to go on eBay and they're on view as thumbnails. I start off by taking perhaps 4 or 5 of each subject and then I reject the worst and edit the best. So I then, as usual, went to Paint.NET to edit some of them. But having edited three, I found, to my horror that the thumbnail pictures I see in 'My Pictures' are not the same as the stored ones. For example, Picture 1 shows a dartboard. But when I click on it to bring it up, lo and behold, it’s a Mathmos colour-changing light (which is photos 27 – 31) Picture 8 shows a train set, but when I bring that up it’s a Polaroid camera (photos 32 – 37). Picture 16 is a selection of watches. When I bring that up the train set that is photos 8 – 12 appears. What on earth is happening? Why have the photos been mixed up? This isn’t the first time it’s happened and in the past I’ve put up with it but this time it’s a major shuffling of my photos which will cost me a lot of time and effort if I have to re-photo everything. It puts me off using Paint.NET altogether.