Windows File Explorer Fail

Callender said:

Well one way of checking video files for corruption is to set Explorer to show medium icons then check that you can see icons for all video files on all drives. It takes a bit of effort depending on how you've arranged folders.
You'd need media preview or similar to view thumbnails for all types of video.
No thumbnail? Then either delete the video or move it to an external drive then disconnect the drive.
EDIT: Check all video files but in particular check .flv

They all checked out.
So video files are OK as well.
Even ran them all for five minutes... and I got a LARGE library of movies.
90% is MKV...
I love that container.

Wait, I said they are OK, they all work.

90% of my huge movie library is MKV, I have a few AVI, MPG, ..., but mainly MKV.

For the record, I run that command quite a few times a year an all drive, so.
And yes, in CMD as Admin.
Reuires a reboot for my C:\ and Virtual Swap Drive, as these are obviously locked.

Callender said:

Well one way of checking video files for corruption is to set Explorer to show medium icons then check that you can see icons for all video files on all drives. It takes a bit of effort depending on how you've arranged folders.

You'd need media preview or similar to view thumbnails for all types of video.

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No thumbnail? Then either delete the video or move it to an external drive then disconnect the drive.

EDIT: Check all video files but in particular check .flv

A little over 10 years ago─soon after I moved to Windows 7─I discovered that the automatic thumbnail generation of the XviD codec on AVI files was preventing external drives from being able to be "safely removed". I remember searching for a solution for days... until finally I found that installing K-Lite Codec Pack fixed that issue for me. There are no ads or spyware, it's clean and it's free to download from codecguide.com where it gets updated frequently by the author. The bottom line is that keeping all codecs and codec related software setups in smooth working condition is what's the golden ticket for anyone dealing with media files.

Callender said:

Thanks. Well I'm out of ideas except to mention again that you should try switching off folder template discovery for all folders and libraries by setting the all to "general items" then reboot and test.
Other than that I have no ideas.

Thank you.
I REALLY appreciate the help you gave, sir.

I fail to get, that, over MANY versions and even far more builds, these simple errors just were not fixed.

How sad is it, having to go to a third-party tool, as a BASE FUNCTION part of something just fails...

Maybe they should never have gone beyond Win 3.0 and DOS 6.22