Solution adadada25 Posted February 23, 2023 Solution Share Posted February 23, 2023 (edited) *** UPDATE *** Solved it. Apparently Windows Registry had an old record or whatever pointing to a program I used before Paint.Net and that was messing up the thumbnails as well as showing an old "Open with..." suggestion for that same program that had been uninstalled. Now the thumbnails show correctly and it had nothing to do with Paint.Net but crappy Windows, as usual. Admins/moderators: Feel free to delete this if deemed appropriate. *** UPDATE *** This issue started today as I edited a DDS texture, after saving the file no longer displays a thumbnail, only the Paint.Net icon. The thumbnails are also gone for most DDS files I have on my computer. When I download new DDS textures, the thumbnails are displayed for some of them but not others. Diffuse textures were displayed as thumbnails more often than normals and speculars, not sure how it's relevant or is it just random. I'm using 5.0.2. Portable. Updated a few days ago and was using the previous as portable as well. No other file type other than DDS has this issue so I think something is wrong with DDS thumbnail handling and it's because of a bad PaintNet installation or something on my Windows thumbnail settings but I can't figure it out. I've tried setting File Explorer settings to always show thumbnails and it does work for all other file types as I mentioned, but DDSs won't show the thumbnail which makes working with thousands of textures really frustrating. Could be that it happens with other programs as well but I haven't tried Gimp yet. Has anyone had any similar issues with DDS files? Edited February 23, 2023 by adadada25 Solved the issue. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigma Posted September 2, 2023 Share Posted September 2, 2023 I have the same problem as you but since the update you did I couldn't figure out how you solved it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigma Posted September 2, 2023 Share Posted September 2, 2023 (edited) I had the problem after moving the paint.net directory to a different folder Edited September 2, 2023 by Sigma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null54 Posted September 2, 2023 Share Posted September 2, 2023 36 minutes ago, Sigma said: I had the problem after moving the paint.net directory to a different folder That is the cause of your issue. If paint.net is not located in the folder that it was installed to the code that handles the thumbnails for DDS, PDN, etc will not work. 1 Quote Plugin Pack | PSFilterPdn | Content Aware Fill | G'MIC | Paint Shop Pro Filetype | RAW Filetype | WebP Filetype The small increase in performance you get coding in C++ over C# is hardly enough to offset the headache of coding in the C++ language. ~BoltBait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigma Posted September 2, 2023 Share Posted September 2, 2023 Ok thx, do you suggest to uninstall and reinstall the program in the new folder or is there a quicker method? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null54 Posted September 2, 2023 Share Posted September 2, 2023 Just now, Sigma said: Ok thx, do you suggest to uninstall and reinstall the program in the new folder or is there a quicker method? Uninstalling and reinstalling would be the best method, you will need to move paint.net back to its original folder before uninstalling it. Quote Plugin Pack | PSFilterPdn | Content Aware Fill | G'MIC | Paint Shop Pro Filetype | RAW Filetype | WebP Filetype The small increase in performance you get coding in C++ over C# is hardly enough to offset the headache of coding in the C++ language. ~BoltBait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigma Posted September 2, 2023 Share Posted September 2, 2023 That fixed it, thank you very much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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