How Can I Find All My Pictures on my PC?
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How Can I Find All My Pictures on my PC?
Hi all. I have some pictures missing here and I know I have not deleted them, they are just 'lost' somewhere on my hard drive.
Anyone know what to put into the search to find them?
Anyone know what to put into the search to find them?
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Ahh, easy as that eh! Just typed in JPG and it came back with nearly two-thousand pictures!! Did not find the ones I am after, strange how they have just gone.
Also noticed many of them were there twice although they are in the same folder, My Pictures.
Also noticed many of them were there twice although they are in the same folder, My Pictures.
Did not find the ones I am after, strange how they have just gone.
Likewise, we make a back-up copy of any photo CD that we take to the printers (much cheaper than printing your own). Perhaps a little over cautious, but CDs are dirt cheap, and it saves much anguish, should things go wrong.
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Good way of finding errant piccies, is to do that search as mentioned - but if you have lost your files, then they ain't in the usual places. Thus, you can discount files that are where you expect to find them and concentrate on other reported locations.
Another trick, is that your pics from any camera are usually taken sequentially, so if you can identify those files before and after the missing ones, you can then do a more targeted search for the missing pictures of aunt Maud. You have (for instance) >DSC_5015 and <DSC_5215. Therefore, you have those in the missing group to find. Search for something in the middle, like DSC_5115 and you will most probably uncover the other blighters as well.
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Another trick, is that your pics from any camera are usually taken sequentially, so if you can identify those files before and after the missing ones, you can then do a more targeted search for the missing pictures of aunt Maud. You have (for instance) >DSC_5015 and <DSC_5215. Therefore, you have those in the missing group to find. Search for something in the middle, like DSC_5115 and you will most probably uncover the other blighters as well.
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If the .jpg search didn't work, don't forget other file formats for pictures. e.g. .gif .bmp .tif
If that doesn't find them, you probably accidentally deleted them!
If that doesn't find them, you probably accidentally deleted them!
