My initial plan was to try to extract the JPG files in thumbs.db, but (a) we couldn't see (quickly) how to do it, (b) I have my system set up so that I don't get thumbs.db created automatically, so the code would have to persuade Losedows to create it before we ran it. Excel still wins even on directories that don't have thumbs.db. I should have mentioned this sidetrack in my original meditation.

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