Picture Library not displaying correctly after upgrade from WSS 3.0
We recently upgraded to Sharepoint 2010 from WSS 3.0. I used at database attach upgrade method and all went smoothly considering I'm quite inexperienced. We don't have any custom coding in our site so the visual upgrade tool worked well. Unfortunately, Since the upgrade I've noticed that IE8 doesn't display picture previews/thumbnails in picture libraries - instead I get a red X. I'm not sure if it's all picture libraries or just those with spaces in the path to the picture library - they are all named "Client Photographs" so all of them have a space in their path. Many of these picture libraries have subfolders within them. The problem is with the view for the library, not the library itself as the pictures are there and can be opened if I open the library in Windows Explorer. If I create a new view for the library, the new view works correctly. If I try to modify the view for the library and then return to the library, I can no longer navigate to subfolders the display only shows the root folder of the picture library. I will probably run a script to create new views for each picture library in our site collection but am interested to know if anyone else has experienced this, if there are any other solutions, and what I missed in our upgrade process that caused this.
October 21st, 2010 3:54pm

Ho does the link that you get from right clicking the red X and choosing properties compare with the actual images link. that should give you a good indication. HTH Nagesh
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October 21st, 2010 4:45pm

You're right! The link is incorrect for those images that are showing the red x. It appears that instead of the %20 to represent the space character in the URL, there is %2520. Suggestions on a fix? Regards, Marni
October 23rd, 2010 5:49pm

In the end I ran scripts to create new views. Cloning the view with the broken links produced views that worked properly. Because I wanted to keep the site link structure / file structure and view names the same I used powershell scripts to find all of the photo libraries in question (this was easy for me because they all had the same list name) and performed the following actions: 1) Cloned the view "All Pictures" to a view called "Temp" and assigned Temp to be the default view. 2) Delete the "All Pictures" view 3) Clone the view "Temp" to "AllItems" assigning AllItems to be the default view. 4) Delete the view "Temp" 5) Set the title fo the AllItems view to be "All Pictures" Aside from the view GUID everything appears to be identical, but with links functioning properly.
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October 24th, 2010 12:10pm

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