Clips causing windows to crash?

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:20 pm

I've had a similar problem with large corrupted files before, but not with everything. i'd review what you installed lately and see if you can't find any culprits there.

Purge · Post by **Purge** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:47 am

something like that happened to me when i had exported a corrupted huffyuv file - my fix was to delete the whole folder because as you say entering the folder crashed explorer.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:10 am

James Sharp wrote:I mean i cant just open the folder and right click to show list. because it crashed before i get the chance too..

Don't click on the main screen - use the "view" button at the top and select "list" from there. If you can't even use the main buttons, because it closes the second you open the folder, then getting rid of the preview icons won't help.

One way around it in the future would be to set the tools, and 'folder options' to "remember each folder's view settings" - set your clip folder to "list" and don't put your clips in any other folders unless you set it to "list" beforehand. Those folders should remain in "list" mode indefinitely. [works for XP, at least]

The Shogun · Post by **The Shogun** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:54 am

Its a progam on your computer thats doing that, happened to me recently, If you can hang in there for the weekend Ill have the solution for you (I dont have the net anymore)

M.H.A.Q.S. · Post by **M.H.A.Q.S.** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:09 pm

Ok, first to get the thumbnails off by opening a folder.

Open a Dos Prompt and delete the Thumbs.db in that folder and do this for any folder that you need to work on.

Next is to get your system stop giving this stupid error. There are many ways around this.

1. Uninstall all Codec software in your system including some major media packages like FFdshow or DivX etc. No need to uninstall WMP or such stuff. Run a registry cleaner and restart your comp00per. Then install a clean set of codecs and you won't (hopefully) get this problem.

James Sharp · Post by **James Sharp** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:18 pm

I really appreciate the responses and have gotten many great solutions as a result.

But at the moment i cannot take any action that would include deleting files or uninstalling codecs.

Because im in the middle of a amv project and it has been said that its very bad to install new codecs in the middle of an editing project.

So i have to withstand for now. But thank you very much for your suggestions and i will surely use them in the future