If you accidentally deleted photos or other images from your disc, you can restore them with the appropriate tools. However, if the deleted files cannot be recovered with the appropriate applications, you can try to get their previews from the cache.
You may be wondering what the meaning is, because the image will be in low resolution.
This depends on what exactly is shown in the image. May contain addresses, telephone numbers or passwords. Thus the retrieval of such an image makes sense regardless of its analysis.
The free Thumbs Viewer utility can be downloaded from thumbsviewer.github.io, and will help you in this theme.
Η application will allow you to view files baseof data, which may contain many interesting things. Specifically, it allows inspection of the contents of the Thumbs.db file, which contains the image thumbnails that File Explorer displays in Windows.
Thumbs.db files are usually located at the root of the disk or folder where the images are stored.
Στα Windows 10 και τα Windows 11, αποθηκεύεται στο φάκελο c:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer.
There you will find files like thumbcache_7876.db, thumbcache_3456.db, thumbcache_8876.db, thumbcache_32454.db and so on.
By default, system files are hidden. So that you can edit them, enable the appearance of hidden protected system files in the folder.
To extract images from a Thumbs.db file, follow these steps.
Copy the Thumbs.db or thumbcache_xxxx.db file to a different folder on your PC.
Start Thumbs Viewer and browse for your file using the File menu.
The application will display the list of thumbnails contained in your file. Except name of the thumbnail, the list includes their size, modified date, OS version, and path.
Click on an entry to open a window projections in which you can see the images.
To save a thumbnail, right-click on it and select "Save Selected" from the menu.
Image resolution, of course, is not original, but it may be enough to read text data.
