can someone advise:
the icons of SW files dissapeared and I cant get it back. I tried file manager and I saw that the icon assigned but in the explorer cant see them.
I use SW 2011 and installed also 2012 but the icons still missing.
I work on dell m6500 with windows 7
Hi,
I am not sure what you mean by "file icon", but when I generate a new installation, I make sure that non of the SW services are running and that the SW key is removed from the windows registry (double check in 64bit systems).
Where the installation suggests file location, I refer it to a location I choose specifically.
I never had this problem.
If you can send a screen print - I will investigate it further.
Aviv
Aviv - I cannot speak for the OP but by "file icons" here is what I meant: When you click File>Open... the window that appears will have icons (depending upon how your view settings are, they will be large or small). Our issue was the icon next to the file name was a generic SW image and not an image of what the model or drawing actually looks like.
There are other threads on the forums discussing this issue.
https://forum.solidworks.com/message/268604#268604
Thanks Matt.
Now I recall this issue occurred in the past with XP and Vista and SW 2008&9.
It was solved with changing a windows setting to "enable thumbnails".
When I get to a computer with SW - I'll check and advise.
Aviv
here is an explanation from the help docs:
Show thumbnail graphics in Windows Explorer. Displays a thumbnail graphic instead of an icon in Windows Explorer for each SolidWorks part or assembly document. The graphic is displayed in an isometric view, zoomed to fit, with a white background. A palette of 16 colors is used; if the model uses a color that is not available, a similar color is substituted. The thumbnail graphics are also used in the Open and Save As dialog boxes.
If you do not see thumbnail graphics in the Open or Save As dialog boxes, you may have to open, then save your documents. When you re-open these dialog boxes, you will see the thumbnail graphics.
Iftach,
Welcome to the forum.
I am with everyone else that you should do a clean uninstall then do a clean install.
There is something obviously set in the registry I feel that is causing this.
Take a look at the link I provided.
We had a similar issue. The thought was that we did not have a "clean" install. The 2012 was installed and I still had 2011 on my box. I uninstalled all SW products, and reinstalled 2012 and I got my icons back. I also could not save a .jpg file and the reinstall took care of that. I hope this helps.