emailing picture.

I can see my pictures that used to be in "My Birds" which was in "My
Pictures".
I've found them now on "windows picture and fax viewer". I don't know how
they got there.
Where are the instructions for putting them into email please? It isn't in
any "topic" instructions there.
With my old computer I could do that, as they just appeared in My Birds,
which was in My Pictures.
Do I need to put them into something else first?
Can I get them back into "My Pictures"?

Everything seems different on this new computer. They have gone from My
Pictures and I have to hunt about in Favourites.
Is there somewhere else they might be?

Is this a job for the computer man, or could I manage to do it? I don't want
to make a mistake and lose them.
It might be best to copy them from where they are, so copies are also in
another place.

XP, Outlook Express, Favourites. Dell computer.

Thank you
Geopelia

 

Can you view the "properties" of the file when you have it open in the
viewer. That might give you the "path" to the file.
It is pretty easy to accidently click and push a folder into another folder
so the "My Birds" folder could have gone up or down a level?

You could also search for the filename of one of the bird pictures and it
should show you the "path" that way too.

I hope that helps a little.

 

They could still be in "My Birds", the "windows picture and fax viewer" is
just a programme to view photos.

No might about it Geo. One should have at least three copies of ones
important data (files). But one backup is way, way better than nothing.
There are two types of computer users, one who will need to use a back up
and the others who have been so delighted they had one.

Backs ups have no value until they are needed, then their value skyrockets.

Get an external USB hard drive and back up to that, at the very least.

 

Geo, it is likely that they are still in the original folder and that
what you see in "windows picture and fax viewer" is merely a link in the
"windows picture and fax viewer" application.

If you have the computer man over, you could ask him, certainly. It is
unlikely that you will totally lose the pictures since you would have to
confirm any delete. However as you have found, you might not easily find
them. But they will be there. Nevertheless you are right to be careful.

If you right-click the picture it may give you a menu, with an option to
email. If you have only a few pictures to email you could send them in
separate emails.

Alternatively, you could locate the pictures, hold down Ctrl and click
the pictures that you want to send and then release the Ctrl and right
click any one of them. If the drop down menu allows you to email them
they will all be attached to your email.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

The computer man connected a small box thing which he said was back up.
Would that be what it was? It's supposed to back everything up.
I'll have to ask him how to get in to it.

 

Thank you, I'll try that. If it works I'll email them to myself and file
them where I want them.
Geopelia

 

Thank you. I don't understand paths, but if something comes up I might be
able to work it out.

 

On top of the other suggestions, I'd add that you might like to give
Google's Picasa a go. It does a great job of searching your PC for all
the pictures and videos - keeps them in an easy to see order, and has
easy to use functionality to send out via e-mail.

http://picasa.google.com

Should you download and install, be careful of the installation wizard -
ensure that the checkboxes (to install Google Chrome and make it default
browser, etc), are the options you want. Otherwise, untick them. In
short, just read each screen carefully as you "next", "next", "next"
your way through the intstaller wizard to ensure you get the install you
want (and not what Google wants! ).

Picasa is a great wee free 'pictures and video' indexer/viewer and more.
It's built in editing functions are simple and easy to use (colour and
contrast adjustments), straightening (leveling) a picture is a cinch,
cropping, red-eye removal, etc.

For 'finding' a photo - ie opening it's location in a 'My Computer'
window, you can simple right-click a picture in Picasa and choose the
"Locate on Disk" function and it'll open up a 'My Computer' window at
that location, with the file selected/highlighted.

Oh, and over time it will use it's face recognition technology to build
up groups of faces it sees as the same, which you can, if you want,
name.

 

Thank you, but that is much too advanced for me to try.
I could ask the computer man to do it. I'll save your instructions.
Your help is appreciated.

 

I've still got XP. I changed to a new computer and everything was supposed
to go from one to the other, but my Favourites are all mixed up on this new
one.
My Birds used to be a folder in My Pictures, but it has gone from there.
Any idea where it might be and what it would be called now?

 

What's the difference between Picassa and google+ photos ??????????

http://googlesystem.blogspot.co.nz/2013/03/picasa-web-albums-redirects-to-google.html

 

Install TeamViewer and skype and get someone you trust to help you
with it remotely instead of paying $100 an hour to a computer man.

 

With all due respect, no-one here, AFAIK, can mind-read.

 

I think the 'computer man' does that - info spotted in a way earlier
post.

 

It's not too advanced at all. It's a very easy to drive program
specialising in pictures and video. Give it a go - download it, and
install it. You can always remove it (uninstall it) if you don't like
it.

 

The computer man can do it remotely.

 

I think he just transferred the whole thing. It all seems to be mixed up.
It might have been a different technician who did it.

 

Ask him to make a desktop shortcut to your My Birds folder.

 

Yes, that should find it, wherever it has gone. It's supposed to be in My
Pictures.

 

All the sub folders have gone from My Pictures.