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Where Did My Pictures Go?
An-D
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So, I just got Windows 7 and apparently it has a super cool feature (one I'm *NOT* taking credit for) where if you make a folder in your 'Pictures' folder (in the Libraries-thing), it makes all your other pictures disappear.
That's what I did.
I had a folder full of folders of pictures. I wanted a place for my Zune to draw pictures from rather than my entire Pictures folder, so in the Zune program, I removed the entire 'pictures' thing from the collections and than added a new folder I made for the program to draw from.
All my other pictures were gone.
So...whats up with that? Is that common? I feel like I did this exact thing in Windows XP, but all my other pictures didn't disappear.
That's what I did.
I had a folder full of folders of pictures. I wanted a place for my Zune to draw pictures from rather than my entire Pictures folder, so in the Zune program, I removed the entire 'pictures' thing from the collections and than added a new folder I made for the program to draw from.
All my other pictures were gone.
So...whats up with that? Is that common? I feel like I did this exact thing in Windows XP, but all my other pictures didn't disappear.
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Note that Libraries are a virtual folder grouping tool, not a "folder on the filesystem" tool. You could have added both Pictures folders to the Pictures library.
No Problem.
Libraries take a few to get used to, but they're actually quite handy, particularly if you've got multiple hard drives with content. They can get reasonably configurable as well, for instance, allowing you to set the default save location for that library, etc (IE, have several drives worth of media in a library, and set the least-full one as the save-location, and then share them all in one single homegroup library)
It's the kind of thing that really becomes useful with several win7 systems in a network, though, and you need to setup homegroup for that. It's almost a little too fiddly, initially, imho