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DNG Codec for Viewing in Explorer

Aug 4, 2012 5:45 PM

I just came across the Adobe DNG codec which lets me see DNG files as thumbbains in Windows 7 Explorer windoes.

 

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/DNG_Codec

 

It works fine, with one problem: it doesn't seem to work for the files inside the Trash folder.  This actually matters, as sometimes I'm not quite sure what all I Trashed, and then it would be useful to see the images in the Trash folder.

 

Typicall I browse the regular folders via LightRoom anyway, so I probably won't be using the DNG codec a huge amount.  But I'm glad it's there for free.

 

(I had to BUY a Codec for Canon CR2 to use in cleaning out my camera RAM chips in a Windows Explorer window.)

3605 Views   3 Replies   Latest reply: jeronimo, Oct 4, 2012 10:50 AM
 
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  • jeronimo
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    1. jeronimo,
    Sep 18, 2012 9:23 AM   in reply to rudytheelder
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    Well I downloaded and installed the (latest?) 'dngcodec_r2_042711.exe' codec today ....and it didn't work.

     

    Windows Explorer used to show a basic 'DNG' icon for each file ...Now it just shows generic 'picture' icons instead. Not a lot of help.

     

    I have win7 64-bit, Lightroom 4 etc. and used the 'Make copy as dng' menu option to generate DNGs from Nikon NEF (raw) files, already present on the hard drive, as I wanted to get away from the cumbersome additional 'sidecar' files generated by the ACR engine but it seems I am stuck with them until someone (Adobe, can you hear this?) comes up with a suggested fix or something.

     

    Anyone any ideas?

     
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    2. Yammer P,
    Oct 4, 2012 7:38 AM   in reply to jeronimo
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    There's a new one available now:

    http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5495

     
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    3. jeronimo,
    Oct 4, 2012 10:50 AM   in reply to Yammer P
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    Thanks for the link Yammer P... I'll check it out    ;-)

     

    30 frustrating minutes later... No luck, just the same pic of sky/mountain/lake when viewed in Win Explorer -and Picture Viewer can't handle it at all. Thanks anyway. Maybe it's my graphics card -but ACR can see dngs so maybe not. Doh!

     

    I think I might give the Ardfry Imaging codec a shot : http://www.ardfry.com/

     
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