> [various helpful suggestion from Stephen - SNIPPED]
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> > Stephen
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> Thanks for your suggestions. The Scotsman was able to find another help article on MS that shed more light on the problem. It seems that there's some sort of buggy interaction between Windows XP and .TIF files. And there's currently no fix for it, the article merely notes that the bug exists.
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> It makes sense to me, too, because until I got my digital camera in March, I wasn't saving large amounts of TIF files on my PC, which is probably why I never experienced the problem until recently. I seem to have "fixed" the problem by converting all my archived TIF files into JPEGs. (And yeah, I know not to go back and work on them in JPEG format because every time you save them you lose more image information to lossy compression.)
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> I did lose a whole folder of hi-res images, but at least I still have the lo-res JPEGS.
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> Gri"gives Stephen some loose change and a big bad bottle of apple juice"shny

Hrmph. Well, at least Microcrap at least can give you *hints* to what is wrong. I'm glad that article was good for *something*, Grish.

For all the other unenlightened out there, the official solution given by Microsoft on their website for Grishny's problem can be quoted as follows:

"Microsoft is aware that this is a problem".

Well, I can sleep better at nights now that I know this. At least they also said they think it might have something to do with .TIF sizes.

Sheesh.

The_Scots"Whoop-dee-doo."man