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Image preview in Explorer of files stored in Centera
Hi everyone!
We are using a Celerra / Rainfinity / Centera combination to store old files that our users are unwilling or unable to delete. We're a private company and the management here has the "keep everything forever" mentality. The problem that we're running into is that our PR people have a lot of old pictures (jpeg, tif, bmp, etc) that they are no longer able to see a thumbnail for on their computers. Before these files were moved from the Celerra, they could see a thumbnail of these files in Windows Explorer without having to open them. Now that these files have been moved to the Centera using our Rainfinity, Explorer just lists the files with the generic icon with the little "offline" flag on them. They can open the file to view it but Explorer will not generate the thumbnail view anymore. This is causing frustration for these users because they can no longer simply scroll through the directory to find a picture they want. They have to open each one to find what they are looking for - and we have tens of thousands of pictures. Any ideas?
We are using a Celerra / Rainfinity / Centera combination to store old files that our users are unwilling or unable to delete. We're a private company and the management here has the "keep everything forever" mentality. The problem that we're running into is that our PR people have a lot of old pictures (jpeg, tif, bmp, etc) that they are no longer able to see a thumbnail for on their computers. Before these files were moved from the Celerra, they could see a thumbnail of these files in Windows Explorer without having to open them. Now that these files have been moved to the Centera using our Rainfinity, Explorer just lists the files with the generic icon with the little "offline" flag on them. They can open the file to view it but Explorer will not generate the thumbnail view anymore. This is causing frustration for these users because they can no longer simply scroll through the directory to find a picture they want. They have to open each one to find what they are looking for - and we have tens of thousands of pictures. Any ideas?
JarrodB1
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May 29th, 2009 06:00
Thanks for the reply. The problem is that these files need to be moved to the Centera due to capacity issues on our Celerra. Somehow Windows Explorer needs to "open" these files enough for the Celerra/Rainfinity to actually fetch the content from the Centera.
sagle
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May 29th, 2009 06:00
JarrodB1
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May 29th, 2009 07:00
JarrodB1
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June 10th, 2009 10:00
PDLS
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July 6th, 2009 09:00
The work royund relates to the passthrough function of the Celerra dhsm.
jhamer1
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July 6th, 2009 09:00
JarrodB1
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July 6th, 2009 09:00
If you would, please post what your work around is if you have any luck with it. My problem is with archived Celerra file systems so if this works you'll be my new best friend!
Nathan_N_Anthon
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October 26th, 2009 13:00