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john d hamilton - 19 Sep 2008 10:33 GMT

Novice has years of photos moved around and copied 'here and there', so now
has lots of *duplicates* all over the place, including the external hard
drive.

In an attempt to organise them i downloaded Picassa and so can easily
'delete' the duplicates, since they appear side by side.

For some reason the folder icon with most of the photos in, that used to be
in 'My Documents' has disappeared. Although a search shows the photos are
still in 'My Documents'.

What would be the best way to draw all the photos together and have them
now in one place please ?

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Trev - 19 Sep 2008 11:18 GMT

> Novice has years of photos moved around and copied 'here and there',
> so now has lots of *duplicates* all over the place, including the
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> What would be the best way to draw all the photos together and have
> them now in one place please ?

Windows has a nifty featur called Move to folder. has done for years The
icon will mostlickly now be a Picassa one as You have let it take over.

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Rob Morley - 19 Sep 2008 12:02 GMT

> Windows has a nifty featur called Move to folder.

ITYFI "Send to Folder"

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Trev - 19 Sep 2008 12:39 GMT

>> Windows has a nifty featur called Move to folder.
>
> ITYFI "Send to Folder"

Actually its move this folder and copy this folder. I have a Inf file that
added copy/move to the context menu to work like Send to X in my old win 98.
God knows what its called in Vista but I bet it needs admin rights and a
password

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Peter - 19 Sep 2008 12:51 GMT

>>> Windows has a nifty featur called Move to folder.
>>
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> 98. God knows what its called in Vista but I bet it needs admin rights and
> a password

The "send to" in Windows is not a move, it is a copy process.
While I have not tried it on my Vista machine, you are right that it does
require administrative rights. However, if that is your machine you should
set yourself up as administrator. If that is a machine at your workplace
your manager might not be thrilled with your use of a workplace machine for
personal storage of photos. I have no intention for the above statement to
start a discussion on proper use of workplace computers.

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mm - 22 Sep 2008 01:15 GMT

>Novice has years of photos moved around and copied 'here and there', so now
>has lots of *duplicates* all over the place, including the external hard
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>in 'My Documents' has disappeared. Although a search shows the photos are
>still in 'My Documents'.

I don't have more than a fleeting acquaintance iwth picasa but this
reminds me of a Yahoo group I subscribed to, unsubscribed, and still
get all the posts from. I tried again to unsubscribe and it wouldnt'
let me. I tried to post and it wouldn't let me. So I subscribed and
now plan to unsubscribe, hoping that will do it.

In your case, maybe more all the unavailbable photos to some dummy
folder, then move them back again to my documents.

I have a feeling you deleted them while in Picasa, if you can do that
there. I'm hoping that only deletes an entry in a picasa list, and
won't delete the photos from the hard drive. Otherwise it's dangerous.
But who knows.

>What would be the best way to draw all the photos together and have them
>now in one place please ?

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Morton - 23 Sep 2008 02:03 GMT

>> Novice has years of photos moved around and copied 'here and there', so now
>> has lots of *duplicates* all over the place, including the external hard
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>> What would be the best way to draw all the photos together and have them
>> now in one place please ?

Hi,

The beauty of Picasa is that it automatically copies any photos from
your hard drive. If you at any point delete photos from Picasa, the
originals will remain where they were on the hard drive. Similarly, if
you edit a photo in Picasa, the original unedited version will remain on
the hard drive. Being free doesn't hurt either.

Morton

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Pennywise@DerryMaine.Gov - 23 Sep 2008 04:10 GMT

>The beauty of Picasa is that it automatically copies any photos from
>your hard drive.

Your really on top of this computer security thing aren't you.

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Morton - 23 Sep 2008 21:43 GMT

>> The beauty of Picasa is that it automatically copies any photos from
>> your hard drive.
>
> Your really on top of this computer security thing aren't you.

Thank you. If you ever had important images deleted accidentally by a
malfunctioning device or program, then you would be too.

Morton

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OG - 23 Sep 2008 12:22 GMT

>>> Novice has years of photos moved around and copied 'here and there', so
>>> now has lots of *duplicates* all over the place, including the external
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> hard drive. If you at any point delete photos from Picasa, the originals
> will remain where they were on the hard drive.

Not necessarily so - if you copy the photo to your own *album*, you can
delete it from the *album* without losing the original; if however, you
delete the photo from the source folder in Picasa it *is* deleted from the
HD and can only be retrieved via the recycle bin. Be warned.

> Similarly, if you edit a photo in Picasa, the original unedited version
> will remain on the hard drive. Being free doesn't hurt either.

This is correct. Picasa backs up the original version of any image you edit
to a hidden folder called 'Originals' within the source folder.

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OG - 23 Sep 2008 13:03 GMT

>> Similarly, if you edit a photo in Picasa, the original unedited version
>> will remain on the hard drive. Being free doesn't hurt either.
>
> This is correct. Picasa backs up the original version of any image you
> edit to a hidden folder called 'Originals' within the source folder.

But deleting the edited version also deletes the backed up original. Again,
be warned

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Morton - 23 Sep 2008 21:48 GMT

>>> Similarly, if you edit a photo in Picasa, the original unedited version
>>> will remain on the hard drive. Being free doesn't hurt either.
>> This is correct. Picasa backs up the original version of any image you
>> edit to a hidden folder called 'Originals' within the source folder.
> But deleting the edited version also deletes the backed up original. Again,
> be warned

I keep all my original unedited pictures in the folder "Pictures" on my
hard drive, not resorting to Albums or other such moves. I therefore can
be sure that a delete in Picasa2 retains the original in Pictures.
(Vista Home Premium). In addition, I burn all my images to CD-Rs that
are suppose to last 100 years; which I will not live long enough to
prove.For important pictures in the field, I have a portable
battery-operated CD-R burner for pictures that automatically burns
images from the SD card to a blank CD-R.

Regards,

Morton

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OG - 24 Sep 2008 11:22 GMT

>>>> Similarly, if you edit a photo in Picasa, the original unedited version
>>>> will remain on the hard drive. Being free doesn't hurt either.
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> hard drive, not resorting to Albums or other such moves. I therefore can
> be sure that a delete in Picasa2 retains the original in Pictures.

Surely you have just contradicted yourself. If you are viewing the photos in
the "Pictures" folder and are not using Albums etc. then when you delete a
picture from Picasa it WILL be deleted from the "Pictures" folder (and from
the unedited copy in the "Original" folder).

Do you want to double check.

> (Vista Home Premium). In addition, I burn all my images to CD-Rs that are
> suppose to last 100 years; which I will not live long enough to prove.For
> important pictures in the field, I have a portable battery-operated CD-R
> burner for pictures that automatically burns images from the SD card to a
> blank CD-R.

I use Karen's Replicator to back up My Pictures to an external HDD

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