Microsoft Compound Document File Format

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Sacha (Posted 2009) [#1]

Hey there. Again. Here's the plot : I want to read thumbs.db files. At first I tought of using windows dlls to read thumbs.db files, and even asked for help for that here, however after finding out it requires to juggle with quite a few windows shell & co libs, and that those arent the same on XP, Vista and Win7, I ended up writing my own thumbs.db reader. I found the following doc about the MCDFF format : http://www.forensicswiki.org/images/5/5b/Compdocfileformat.pdf It is very complete, which is a good thing because thats basically all I could find. So the reader seems to work fine but I have some problems, so If you know about that format or like to read technical docs, can you tell me the following : - How do you get a "short stream" position in the file ? The doc says offset = SecID*Short_sec_size, however if I use that, a SecID between 0 and 3 will give a position offset pointing in the document header, which is obviously not a short stream container. - I can read most of the thumbnail jpgs of the file, but couldnt find a consistent way to find out the name of the picture file that thumbnail comes from. Anyone can give me help or point me to a good place to ask for help on this matter ? I tried MSDN but no one replied so far.

Wings (Posted 2009) [#2]

Wait a min.. DB format is the help format for programfiles isent it :) simular to html. Never ever gona use it-. better of using html.

Subirenihil (Posted 2009) [#3]

thumbs.db stores all the thumbnail images used to display in explorer or various other file browsers.