Hi guys.
I have a problem that I would like Directory Opus to help me fix easily if it can.
I have a lot of music that has is all tagged well, but somehow on the 16 May, 2010, some app must have put all this low quality hidden cover art in my music folders.
If I select, "Show System Files" the hidden cover art is displayed.
There are 2 files in each of my music folders. But I have a lot of music and many folders.
So, how do I get Directory Opus to display all these crappy hidden system album art files so I can delete them?
The file names seem to be always called:
AlbumArtSmall.jpg
Folder.jpg
Image below:
I am sure Directory has the power to do this. I just need to know how.
Thanks for your help...
The thing that did that is the awful media sharing scanner built into Windows Media Player. That evil thing is the main reason I've permissioned my music folders to require full Administrator (UAC elevation) to make any changes, so that it cannot mess up my high-res folder.jpg files with low-res abominations. It was like this in Vista and MS didn't fix it in Win7. A bunch of threads complaining about it on the web... It really is awful that it overwrites existing files with worse quality versions...
Anyway, you can use Tools -> Find Files -> Advanced to find those files:
The name wildcard in the screenshot is (AlbumArtSmall.jpg|Folder.jpg)
And I only use Windows Media Player for Media Sharing.
Even though I have Tools > Options > Library: "Retrieve additional information from the Internet" unselected.
You changed both pipe symbols to dots. Only one was wrong. Try copying & pasting what was in my original message, below the screenshot. Here it is again:
