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| | Photo Gallery & My Pictures I understand that Windows Picture Gallery is essentially an organizer and picture viewer. Why don't recent photos imported into Picture Gallery ALSO appear in Pictures (My Pictures)? Photos which were were transferred from My Pictures on my old computer to Pictures on my new computer appear on Photo Gallery when I click on All Photos but any new pictures appear in Photo Gallery but not in Pictures (My Pictures). Can any one explain this? Handyman -- Handyman |
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| | Re: Photo Gallery & My Pictures On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 12:20:03 -0700, Handyman <Handyman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >I understand that Windows Picture Gallery is essentially an organizer and >picture viewer. Why don't recent photos imported into Picture Gallery ALSO >appear in Pictures (My Pictures)? Photos which were were transferred from My >Pictures on my old computer to Pictures on my new computer appear on Photo >Gallery when I click on All Photos but any new pictures appear in Photo >Gallery but not in Pictures (My Pictures). Can any one explain this? > >Handyman I think Microsoft misnamed Photo Galley since the name implies it is some gallery or collection of photos. It is no such thing. The actual file structure in Vista hasn't changed from prior versions of Windows. Files are still located in folders. What you see in Photo Gallery or don't see depends which folders you tell it to include. In other words there isn't any special folders where Photo Gallery stores anything, it simply can build a list of folders to display. This confusion is further compounded since Photo Galley is the default picture viewer which actives anytime you double click on a image file in Windows Explorer. The difference being when you do that you are limited to viewing photos in whatever folder Windows Explorer happens to be in at the moment. Then add in junction points that may link to phantom folders that don't really exist but are there to assist older applications and it can be a bit confusing to find where your photos actually are. My advise, and I have over a million graphic files; movies, still images, clip art, etc., is totally ignore Vista's special folders and replace it with your own design scheme. That should make it easier to keep track of where you photos actually are. For example here is how I do it: I set up a folder I called raw. EVEYTHING new, regardless of origin begins here. All the stuff I download off the web, stuff people send me as an email attachment, photos I take, videos I shoot, the works. This folder has several sub folder to help me kept track of various categories. From time to time I scan the contents before it gets to be too unmanageable and delete stuff I know I'll never use. What remains gets moved to a folder I call hold. This is stuff I may still discard at some point, but I haven't decided yet. This folder is broken up still more into various sub categories. But I know it's still raw files I haven't done any work on yet. Stuff I have finished I move to an external drive. On it there are several master folders I named archives, one for video, another for still images slideshows and so on. Within each are a very detailed series of sub folders arranged by categories. So it looks something like this: still images-- vacations-- Arizona-- sunsets Doing it this way you can take advantage of Vista's better file search routines or use combinations of Windows Explorer or Photo Galley to quick see what you have. |
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