Can't get folder images to work

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Hello all,  I’ve got all of my movies lumped into a folder titled “Movies”  within that folder i have a jpg titled Movies.jpg.  I also have a folder titled folder.jpg  However, the folder image show up as the art from the 1st movie file in the folder (12 monkeys) instead of the folder jpg.  I’ve tried deleting the thumbs folder, pulling the power on the machine, doing a system restart from the settings menu.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

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All folder thumbnails need to be named “folder.jpg”.

With that said, if deleting the thumbs folder and unplugging the power didn’t reset the images, the only other thing you can try is to delete the entire .wd_tv folder.

You will want to back up any themes that you have installed to your PC first, then the way I do it when this happens is to put the HUB into standby and delete the .wd_tv folder.  Then turn the HUB on, it should start compiling the library.  Once it’s done, you should be able to navigate to your folders and they should show your new images.

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Still no luck.  Deleted the entire wd_tv folder with no results.  Then I tried rolling back the firmware.  Also no luck.  I have 3 folders (Movies, HD Movies, TV Series) and all they ever show are blank folders for ‘HD Movies’ and ‘TV Series’ and the cover for the first movie in the folder for ‘Movies’

Any other suggestions for this problem?  Is there any way to directly edit the .thumb file?  It seems ridiculous that the hub needs to convert images into '.thumb files for folders, wouldn’t it make more sense to just use the .jpg as is, like it does for movie thumbnails?  (at least as far as I’m aware :P)

Thanks!

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.thumbs are smaller files and will load faster.

But, that being said, I don’t have but about 8 .thumb files for the thousands of videos I have.   I don’t know why some have them and most don’t.

Make sure your .JPG files are correctly formatted. 

Compressed RGB JPEG formats only and progressive JPEG up to 2048x2048.

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Well, apparently it was something wrong with the formatting.  I opened each JPG in photoshop and resaved the file.  That seemed to do the trick.  Thanks for the suggestions!!!