Network folder image thumbnails taking long time to load

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Published on 2011-06-27T02:39:09Z Indexed on 2011/06/27 8:24 UTC
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windows-2003-sp2

Our internal network folder can take up to 5 seconds to generate a thumbnail for each photo in a network folder. Usually, only 10% of thumbnails actually display; the rest are default jpg icons.

A thumbs.db file already exists inside this folder, so presumably the thumbnails have been generated before. Why do they have to be generated again?

The PC is Win7 64-bit. The server is Windows 2003 Server SP2.

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