I have been taking lots and lots of photos from old prints and imported them onto my laptop.
I've had hours of fun categorising them, the majority of which requiring new folders.
When I open one particular folder and view full screen the forward and reverse arrows are non existent and the slide show refuses to operate.
No problem with any other folder, just the most important one, any help would be appreciated
May I ask if you are using the Windows Photo App or if you are selecting and view via the slideshow function of File Explorer in Manage Picture Tools? The latter seems to use a different app and the slideview operation is controlled via a right click as shown below.
Thanks for your reply, I am not too clever with computers but to answer your question I am using windows ten but I am not using tens picture app.
When I right click as you suggested I get a different set of options to the ones on your displayed, what I am looking at is View all photos, Share, Slideshow, Edit, Rotate, Delete, etc, etc.
The response when I clicked on slide show was the picture kept repeating itself.
Like I say this problem only effects a few folders so I might try reloading one of them onto a new folder
Navigate to the problematic folder
Change the view to Medium icons
Do all images show a thumbnail?
If they show the icon for the program, you'll need to de-select the view setting Always show icons, never thumbnails
You can also try scrolling though the images using Preview (Windows Photo Viewer)
Select the first image file
Right click - select Preview
(you might have to Open With > Windows Photo Viewer)
The above only helps determine if there is a file that won't properly display
If everything displays properly, then try copying a few images to a new folder and test Slide show on the test folder
Continue copying image files, a few at a time (10-20), and test Slide show on the test folder
If / when Slide show stops working, you know that the last group copied is causing the issue.
The question is: Are thre too many images for Slide Show to handle or is one of the images causing the issue.
Easy enough to answer, remove that last group of images that you copied, then copy the next set of images to the test folder
If Slideshow fails, it's probably too many files.
If Slideshow works, it was one of the images.
Thanks For your help guys, opening and transferring photos to a new folder did the trick.
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