Vista - tagging photos in Windows Photo Gallery

When you tag photos in the Windows Photo Gallery, I see it saves the photo in
the original dated file as well as in the tagged file. Is there a way to
make sure there are not two copies of the photo as to save space?
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jessk

I do not seem get files duplicated when I tag them. How are you looking at
the file to see the duplicate? Maybe the other one is hidden from me? The
file I see has 'changed date/time' set to when I add the tag as expected.


Michael
Vista Home premium, Windows Photo Gallery


"jessk" <jessk@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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My pictures are all listed according to date. I created new tags and was
just dragging the pictures from the dated files to the newly created tag.
The picture remains in the dated file when I look there but is also in the
tagged file.

Thanks!
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jessk


"Michael Walraven" wrote:

I am way confused here.

To 'tag' a file in Photo Gallery you right click it and select 'add a tag'
(you can also do as I think you are trying to do 'drag' it to a already
existing tag, but that is pretty cumbersome when adding multiple tags )

Perhaps you created a 'folder' rather than a tag and then did a 'drag' to
that folder.

A 'tag' is something attached to the file, it is not a location.

On the Photo Gallery left pane there should be
All pictures and Videos
Recently Imported
Tags
Date Taken
Ratings
Folders

It sounds like you may be in the 'folders' view when you are dragging the
picture.


In sum, I suggest that you right click a picture, select add tag and add any
tags you want. This rather than creating a tag first and then dragging to
that tag.

After you tag the file, you will be able to see it by many attributes, by
date, by tags, by names. Just because you can now see it multiple ways does
not mean it is duplicated. It just can be accessed by multiple attributes.

So I am still not sure why you think the file is duplicated. One thing you
can do is to right click the picture, select properties, and general tab.
This will show the actual name and the location that it is at. If there
actually duplicate pictures they will have different names or locations.

Michael



"jessk" <jessk@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I know. I am a bit confusing.

In the left pane, I was clicking on Create New Tag and then once I created
one, I was dragging the pictures into that tag. I didn't realize you could
just add the tag right to the picture by right clicking on it. I guess I
didn't really know what a tag was.

So, to be clear, just because I can click on my "vacation" tag and see my
pictures there and also click on July 2007 and see those same pictures does
not mean that the pictures are saved on my computer twice. It simply means
they can be viewed in a couple of different places?

Thanks!
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jessk


"Michael Walraven" wrote:

You got it.


"jessk" <jessk@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you for your help. I appreciate it.
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jessk


"Michael Walraven" wrote: