Camera Questions - Preview Time and *.thumbs

[Geordie Glazer]

Good evening everyone. I recently switched over to a 950XL. When I take pics with HDR, these *.thumbs files are synced to my OneDrive. What are they? Do I need them, don't seem to. Can I stop this?

Also is there a way to have the last picture taken preview on the screen for a second or two instead to having to tap on the camera roll icon to see the last picture?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

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[Chintan Gohel]

Good evening everyone. I recently switched over to a 950XL. When I take pics with HDR, these *.thumbs files are synced to my OneDrive. What are they? Do I need them, don't seem to. Can I stop this?

Also is there a way to have the last picture taken preview on the screen for a second or two instead to having to tap on the camera roll icon to see the last picture?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

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what are the size of the .thumbs files?

As for the second question, that option used to be there a couple of years back, but not any more

 

[AuraTigital]

.thumbs should just be just cached thumbnail data. It's safe to delete them, not sure how to prevent them from being synced though. Weird that it's being synced.

 

[Geordie Glazer]

Thanks guys, the *.thumbs are only a few hundred Kb and I can just delete them, but they're just annoying, be nice to disable them.

Weird thing is, I can't figure out how they're generated. Some images have a .thumb to go with the main image, some don't. If I take 6 pictures right now and don't view them on my phone, when I check OneDrive on my desktop, some of those images will have a .thumb to go with it. It's a head scratcher.

 

[Chintan Gohel]

Thanks guys, the *.thumbs are only a few hundred Kb and I can just delete them, but they're just annoying, be nice to disable them.

Weird thing is, I can't figure out how they're generated. Some images have a .thumb to go with the main image, some don't. If I take 6 pictures right now and don't view them on my phone, when I check OneDrive on my desktop, some of those images will have a .thumb to go with it. It's a head scratcher.

I've not heard of thumb files being visible unless they are supposed to be hidden but actually have been changed to show up normally