I imported 17,000 pictures from my D drive to Windows photo gallery without
knowing what I'm doing and now and I know they didn't go on my C drive and
that they are still on the D drive but how do I get them off of Windows
Photo Gallery and I sure don't want to delete them from my D drive?

Very carefully. First, leave them in Photo Gallery, close Photo Gallery, and
don't worry about it. Then move them from your D: drive to the Picture
folder in your user account (or wherever). Then open Photo Gallery and see
what's up. I didn't try it so I'm not sure what'll happen. But don't delete
anything from Photo Gallery until you see what's going on and know what
you're doing.


"Richard" <miller039@cox.net> wrote in message
news:D5A63444-1BDD-4B7C-AEDD-55D2E9BF3BD4@microsoft.com...
>I imported 17,000 pictures from my D drive to Windows photo gallery without
>knowing what I'm doing and now and I know they didn't go on my C drive and
>that they are still on the D drive but how do I get them off of Windows
>Photo Gallery and I sure don't want to delete them from my D drive?

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:02:12 -0700, "Richard" <miller039@cox.net>
wrote:

>I imported 17,000 pictures from my D drive to Windows photo gallery without
>knowing what I'm doing and now and I know they didn't go on my C drive and
>that they are still on the D drive but how do I get them off of Windows
>Photo Gallery and I sure don't want to delete them from my D drive?

Photo Gallery is simply a viewer, it doesn't do anything to your
files. If you can remmeber some file name, or part of any of them you
can probably locate where they all are with Vista's Search from the
start menu.

Another way is go to Windows Explorer, then walk down the tree,
expanding the sub folders as you go. Brute force method, but sooner or
later you'll find what you're looking for.

Example:

From Windows Explorer, click on Computer, then your D drive, then
explorer the folders there in by clicking on the little arrow and
expands the root folder.

WPG doesn't move any files. It just displays photos and videos that are in
your Pictures directory, and any other folder you tell it to look in. The
files stay where they were.

In WPG, if you hover your mouse pointer over a directory in the left pane,
it will show you the path. If you want to remove that directory from WPG,
right-click on the folder and select Remove From Gallery (DO NOT select
Delete).



"Richard" <miller039@cox.net> wrote in message
news:D5A63444-1BDD-4B7C-AEDD-55D2E9BF3BD4@microsoft.com...
>I imported 17,000 pictures from my D drive to Windows photo gallery without
>knowing what I'm doing and now and I know they didn't go on my C drive and
>that they are still on the D drive but how do I get them off of Windows
>Photo Gallery and I sure don't want to delete them from my D drive?