Zoombrowser EX Issue - Freezing when displaying PP'ed .jpg's

When I first open up a folder in Zoombrowser EX of RAW photos I've yet to PP, it iterates through all of the RAW photos to produce thumbnails (I'm viewing in Scroll Mode) just fine. I then go through, pick my favorites, import into CS5, PP them, and save them all back to the same folder as .jpg's (with quality of 10). The next time I go into Zoombrowser EX and display the folder, it begins iterating through them again but freezes (sometimes a couple seconds, sometimes a minute, and sometimes indefinitely to where I have to kill the program) on almost all of the processed .jpg's. This will also happen if I'm scrolling through them in full-size display mode (where you double-click a photo and then scroll through the album using the arrow keys) when it displays one of the .jpg's.

Does anyone else have this problem and/or know what might be going wrong and have a possible solution? I thought it might have been fixed in the latest version so I downloaded and installed 6.7.2.33 but it hasn't fixed it.

is your computer fast enough to handle the file sizes? just a thought. or maybe try saving as an 8 not 10 quality, smaller files easier for pc to handle.

It's a Quad-core running at 3.2 GHz with 4 GB of memory. It's certainly fast enough to thumbnail and display jpg's no matter what their size. I don't have this problem when displaying them anywhere else on the computer, so it's an issue inherent in Zoombrowser, I'm just not sure what causes it. It's certainly not a large file, especially when compared to the RAW pictures it just breezes through.

what about DPP? can you use that without freezing?

you running vista? windows xp? windows 7?

OR

try breezebrowser

i googled 'zoombrowser freezing' up and got a few finds.

Windows 7 x64. Yea, I've googled the problem as well but found nothing addressing a possible cause or fix.

Well, I don't know any details, but Canon software has had some issues opening and processing files that have been produced by other software. I haven't heard about this with jpegs, but I have heard about it with tiffs.

Like I said, I don't know details, and I myself haven't seen "bad" behavior with jpegs, but I have with tiffs produced by Photoshop. I just don't often use the Canon software for anything but Canon Raw files so have no "in-depth" input for you.

I just opened ZoomBrowser and used it to view a bunch of jpegs that I'd exported from Lightroom with no issues. It's version 6.7.2.33 if that matters, on an XP workstation.

Yea, I'm not sure this is an issue across the board, I just don't see what it is I'm doing that's causing this problem.

Fligi7 wrote in post #13376742
Yea, I'm not sure this is an issue across the board, I just don't see what it is I'm doing that's causing this problem.

Well, I dunno -- strange things do happen, and I wouldn't assume it's something you are doing. Canon probably doesn't put much work into ZoomBrowser -- have you tried using DPP to view these?

i hear breezebrowser works well, i'd try that.

tonylong wrote in post #13376863
Well, I dunno -- strange things do happen, and I wouldn't assume it's something you are doing. Canon probably doesn't put much work into ZoomBrowser -- have you tried using DPP to view these?

Yea, the problem with DPP is that you can't scroll through the photos once you double-click on one like you can in ZB. It's really annoying to have to double-click on every photo I want to see larger than a thumbnail.

led hed wrote in post #13377063
i hear breezebrowser works well, i'd try that.

It looks good except I'd rather not pay $70 for software that does most of the same as zoombrowser that I get for free. If I'm going to pay for something, it wouldn't be for another program like I already have.

Raising hand,
I have definately seen the slow to start of ZoomBrowser compared to Bridge.
I guess that can be a freeze, as it takes some time to start?
This is on Windows XPPro, Dell Latitude D620 laptop 4GB.
I want to say I have seen this on my new 8GB win7-64Pro XPS17 laptop as well, but cannot remember...
Still setting up my new machine.

It can be a bit slow to start if you're loading a bunch of images but this is a different, more acute issue.