A case of a missing jpeg.

Question

I am sure this will be considered the most frivolous request for assistance that has ever been posted on this forum, but here goes. I have a folder with a goodly number of JPEGs that revolve in order on my screen as a slideshow. There is one particular picture that I would like to delete due to its poor quality but I have searched the folder top to bottom and vice-versa and cannot locate it. Whenever it appears on my screen, if I right-click on the screen a pop-up window appears with the option to select the next picture. Every time the next picture is always the same and I don’t mean the same as the image I wish to delete but another picture and this happens every time. When I locate that “next” JPEG in the folder and click on the one immediately before it, it is Not the one I wish to delete. I tried moving all the jpegs to another folder, thinking that perhaps the image is a ping and that’s why it doesn’t show up, but then the original folder shows as empty.
This is driving me bonkers (which is a short drive anyway) but can anybody assist me with this or provide a solution? Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi Folkhedd, glad to help!

Answer 2

Thank you for your assistance. You were correct, the images were stored in a cached folder which I deleted and now since I've set up my folder of images as a desktop slide show the mysterious jpeg has disappeared.

Answer 3

Hi Folkhedd,

The slideshow function must copy the image files to a cached folder, are those images stored in the folder if you paste this into the address bar in File Epxlorer?

%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\CachedFiles

Answer 4

Thanks for your reply. I followed your instructions but still was unable to locate that elusive jpeg (or png). I then removed the folder from the hard drive and put it into an external drive which I then disconnected. The pictures still kept revolving. How is that possible? Are they located somewhere else on the hard drive?
Thanks.

Answer 5

Hi Folkhedd,

I am Dave, I will help you with this.

The slideshow does not normally show images in the order they are in the folder, usually images are shown in random order

Open the folder of images, set View to Details, so you see all the file details then click the Dimensions column header until the smallest dimensions is at the top of the column

If you do not see the Dimensions column, right click any column header and add it from there.

The image you are looking for is most likely one of the images with the smallest dimensions

On the View tab, turn on the Preview pane, then click each of the images with the smallest dimensions, in the preview pane can you see the image you are looking for?