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Help Pictures and Thumbnails and Facebook. Oh My!

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WVMontani

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Running Windows and and have a Pixel 2

When I save a picture from Facebook it goes into a folder named "Facebook" under DCIM. Then if I connect the Pixel to my PC via a USB cable, I cannot see the pictures under Facebook folder; all I see is icons representing each picture. I'm not seeing Thumbnails of the pictures.

Now, if I look in the Camera folder under DCIM, I see the thumbnails just fine.

Why can't I see Thumbnails under the Facebook folder?

-WVMontani
 
Dannydet said:
I believe windows cannot draw up the thumbnails, if connected by USB...
Once copied to a windows folder, the thumbnails should appear.
I'm no expert, but that's my only explanation...
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That does not do me much good because I want to transfer only certain files to the PC not all of them. Besides, I can see thumbnails for the camera folder just fine; it's the Facebook folder where I can't see them.
 
WVMontani said:
Running Windows and and have a Pixel 2

When I save a picture from Facebook it goes into a folder named "Facebook" under DCIM. Then if I connect the Pixel to my PC via a USB cable, I cannot see the pictures under Facebook folder; all I see is icons representing each picture. I'm not seeing Thumbnails of the pictures.

Now, if I look in the Camera folder under DCIM, I see the thumbnails just fine.

Why can't I see Thumbnails under the Facebook folder?

-WVMontani
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It sounds like Windows doesn't know that a folder called "Facebook" might contain pictures, and so it doesn't scan them and generate the thumbnails, and just shows a list of filenames or icons. Unlike a folder called "Pictures", where it assumes there are pictures stored. How you can change that, no ideas I don't use Windows. I use Mac or Linux.
 
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