Where oh where have my pictures gone...

Duncs · Oct 16, 2009

Oh where oh where can they be!

Help, but I can't find my Pictures amywhere on my hard-drive. I've
looked in "C:\users\duncs\documents\Pictures", but I don't have a
folder called "documents", or indeed one called "Pictures".

In Explorer, under 'Desktop | Duncs' I have the following, among other
things:

Documents - This has a location of G:\

I don't however, have anything for 'Pictures' or 'My Pictures'. When
I do a search on my G:\ drive, for .JPG files, it lists all the
picture files that I have...so where are they? Displaying the folder
shows the following-"My Pictures (G", but still I can't find them.
There is no folder called 'My Pictures' or 'Pictures' on the G: drive.

If I try to right-click and open location, I get the message "G:\My
Pictures is not accessible. The directory name is invalid."

Can anyone help?

Many TIA

Duncs

Gordon · Oct 16, 2009

"Duncs" <true.kilted.scot@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:3cd8504c-6f5e-44ef-a592-60ecd32591b7@w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com...
> Oh where oh where can they be!
>
> Help, but I can't find my Pictures amywhere on my hard-drive. I've
> looked in "C:usersduncsdocumentsPictures", but I don't have a
> folder called "documents", or indeed one called "Pictures".
>
> In Explorer, under 'Desktop | Duncs' I have the following, among other
> things:
>
> Documents - This has a location of G:
>
> I don't however, have anything for 'Pictures' or 'My Pictures'. When
> I do a search on my G: drive, for .JPG files, it lists all the
> picture files that I have...so where are they? Displaying the folder
> shows the following-"My Pictures (G", but still I can't find them.
> There is no folder called 'My Pictures' or 'Pictures' on the G: drive.
>
> If I try to right-click and open location, I get the message "G:My
> Pictures is not accessible. The directory name is invalid."
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Many TIA
>
> Duncs

G would seem to be a network or external drive. Is this connected?

Duncs · Oct 16, 2009

On 16 Oct, 17:26, "Gordon" <gordonbpar...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Duncs" <true.kilted.s...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:3cd8504c-6f5e-44ef-a592-60ecd32591b7@w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
>
>
> > Oh where oh where can they be!
>
> > Help, but I can't find my Pictures amywhere on my hard-drive. I've
> > looked in "C:usersduncsdocumentsPictures", but I don't have a
> > folder called "documents", or indeed one called "Pictures".
>
> > In Explorer, under 'Desktop | Duncs' I have the following, among other
> > things:
>
> > Documents - This has a location of G:
>
> > I don't however, have anything for 'Pictures' or 'My Pictures'. When
> > I do a search on my G: drive, for .JPG files, it lists all the
> > picture files that I have...so where are they? Displaying the folder
> > shows the following-"My Pictures (G", but still I can't find them.
> > There is no folder called 'My Pictures' or 'Pictures' on the G: drive.
>
> > If I try to right-click and open location, I get the message "G:My
> > Pictures is not accessible. The directory name is invalid."
>
> > Can anyone help?
>
> > Many TIA
>
> > Duncs
>
> G would seem to be a network or external drive. Is this connected?- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

No, G: is an internal hard-drive, that I can access and open files
on. I just can't see / find my pictures.

Charles W Davis · Oct 16, 2009

"Duncs" <true.kilted.scot@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On 16 Oct, 17:26, "Gordon" <gordonbpar...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Duncs" <true.kilted.s...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:3cd8504c-6f5e-44ef-a592-60ecd32591b7@w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
>
>
> > Oh where oh where can they be!
>
> > Help, but I can't find my Pictures amywhere on my hard-drive. I've
> > looked in "C:usersduncsdocumentsPictures", but I don't have a
> > folder called "documents", or indeed one called "Pictures".
>
> > In Explorer, under 'Desktop | Duncs' I have the following, among other
> > things:
>
> > Documents - This has a location of G:
>
> > I don't however, have anything for 'Pictures' or 'My Pictures'. When
> > I do a search on my G: drive, for .JPG files, it lists all the
> > picture files that I have...so where are they? Displaying the folder
> > shows the following-"My Pictures (G", but still I can't find them.
> > There is no folder called 'My Pictures' or 'Pictures' on the G: drive.
>
> > If I try to right-click and open location, I get the message "G:My
> > Pictures is not accessible. The directory name is invalid."
>
> > Can anyone help?
>
> > Many TIA
>
> > Duncs
>
> G would seem to be a network or external drive. Is this connected?- Hide
> quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

No, G: is an internal hard-drive, that I can access and open files
on. I just can't see / find my pictures.

Have you tried find for *.jpg?

Tae Song · Oct 17, 2009

"Duncs" <true.kilted.scot@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:3cd8504c-6f5e-44ef-a592-60ecd32591b7@w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com...
> Oh where oh where can they be!
>
> Help, but I can't find my Pictures amywhere on my hard-drive. I've
> looked in "C:usersduncsdocumentsPictures", but I don't have a
> folder called "documents", or indeed one called "Pictures".
>
> In Explorer, under 'Desktop | Duncs' I have the following, among other
> things:
>
> Documents - This has a location of G:
>
> I don't however, have anything for 'Pictures' or 'My Pictures'. When
> I do a search on my G: drive, for .JPG files, it lists all the
> picture files that I have...so where are they? Displaying the folder
> shows the following-"My Pictures (G", but still I can't find them.
> There is no folder called 'My Pictures' or 'Pictures' on the G: drive.
>
> If I try to right-click and open location, I get the message "G:My
> Pictures is not accessible. The directory name is invalid."
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Many TIA
>
> Duncs

Default location for Pictures folder is C:\Users\UserName\Pictures

Another place to check would be C:\Users\Public\Public Pictures

You can do an all out search by opening Computer and typing ext:jpg in the
Search field (this will take a while)

or

Open a command prompt and type dir \*.jpg /s /p

or

Open a command prompt and type dir \*.jpg /s > jpg.txt and open jpg.txt with
notepad and do a search on the jpg if you remember the name

The Search 4.0 on XP, Vista and Windows 7 seems to be modeled on Google's
Desktop Search and has a limitation in search behavior you should be aware
of . If you're doing a search on filename with fox in it, it won't bring up
for example Firefox.exe. It will list filenames if they have a separator
like a space or _ before the search word, Install_Fox.exe for example.

So if you are doing a search using the built in Search, you need to supply
the starting characters at the beginning of the filename or beginning after
a separator. So if you ask for it to search for ox, it won't return with a
fox, which is OK for an internet search engine, but it defeats the purpose
of filename search in Windows, in my opinion.

Duncs · Oct 21, 2009

On Oct 17, 6:56 pm, "Tae Song" <tae_s...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Duncs" <true.kilted.s...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:3cd8504c-6f5e-44ef-a592-60ecd32591b7@w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
>
>
> > Oh where oh where can they be!
>
> > Help, but I can't find my Pictures amywhere on my hard-drive. I've
> > looked in "C:usersduncsdocumentsPictures", but I don't have a
> > folder called "documents", or indeed one called "Pictures".
>
> > In Explorer, under 'Desktop | Duncs' I have the following, among other
> > things:
>
> > Documents - This has a location of G:
>
> > I don't however, have anything for 'Pictures' or 'My Pictures'. When
> > I do a search on my G: drive, for .JPG files, it lists all the
> > picture files that I have...so where are they? Displaying the folder
> > shows the following-"My Pictures (G", but still I can't find them.
> > There is no folder called 'My Pictures' or 'Pictures' on the G: drive.
>
> > If I try to right-click and open location, I get the message "G:My
> > Pictures is not accessible. The directory name is invalid."
>
> > Can anyone help?
>
> > Many TIA
>
> > Duncs
>
> Default location for Pictures folder is C:UsersUserNamePictures
>
> Another place to check would be C:UsersPublicPublic Pictures
>
> You can do an all out search by opening Computer and typing ext:jpg in the
> Search field (this will take a while)
>
> or
>
> Open a command prompt and type dir *.jpg /s /p
>
> or
>
> Open a command prompt and type dir *.jpg /s > jpg.txt and open jpg.txt with
> notepad and do a search on the jpg if you remember the name
>
> The Search 4.0 on XP, Vista and Windows 7 seems to be modeled on Google's
> Desktop Search and has a limitation in search behavior you should be aware
> of . If you're doing a search on filename with fox in it, it won't bring up
> for example Firefox.exe. It will list filenames if they have a separator
> like a space or _ before the search word, Install_Fox.exe for example.
>
> So if you are doing a search using the built in Search, you need to supply
> the starting characters at the beginning of the filename or beginning after
> a separator. So if you ask for it to search for ox, it won't return with a
> fox, which is OK for an internet search engine, but it defeats the purpose
> of filename search in Windows, in my opinion.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -


> Default location for Pictures folder is C:UsersUserNamePictures
There is no folder called 'Pictures', within Users\<my user name>.

> Another place to check would be C:UsersPublicPublic Pictures
All that is in this folder, is a folder called 'Sample Pictures'.

> You can do an all out search by opening Computer and typing ext:jpg in the Search field (this will take a while)
If I do this it returns, among other things, files such as:

g:\My Pictures\Digital Pictures\Photo Frame\Football 2007

These I would expect the search to find, as these are .JPG files that
I have. However, when I paste this path into explorer, I get the
message:

Windows cannot find 'g:\My Pictures\Digital Pictures\Photo Frame
\Football 2007'. Check the spelling and try again.

So, from the search I can see the files are there, I just can't get at
them.

Wher can I go now?

TIA

Duncs

gls858 · Oct 21, 2009

Duncs wrote:
> On Oct 17, 6:56 pm, "Tae Song" <tae_s...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> "Duncs" <true.kilted.s...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:3cd8504c-6f5e-44ef-a592-60ecd32591b7@w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Oh where oh where can they be!
>>> Help, but I can't find my Pictures amywhere on my hard-drive. I've
>>> looked in "C:usersduncsdocumentsPictures", but I don't have a
>>> folder called "documents", or indeed one called "Pictures".
>>> In Explorer, under 'Desktop | Duncs' I have the following, among other
>>> things:
>>> Documents - This has a location of G:
>>> I don't however, have anything for 'Pictures' or 'My Pictures'. When
>>> I do a search on my G: drive, for .JPG files, it lists all the
>>> picture files that I have...so where are they? Displaying the folder
>>> shows the following-"My Pictures (G", but still I can't find them.
>>> There is no folder called 'My Pictures' or 'Pictures' on the G: drive.
>>> If I try to right-click and open location, I get the message "G:My
>>> Pictures is not accessible. The directory name is invalid."
>>> Can anyone help?
>>> Many TIA
>>> Duncs
>> Default location for Pictures folder is C:UsersUserNamePictures
>>
>> Another place to check would be C:UsersPublicPublic Pictures
>>
>> You can do an all out search by opening Computer and typing ext:jpg in the
>> Search field (this will take a while)
>>
>> or
>>
>> Open a command prompt and type dir *.jpg /s /p
>>
>> or
>>
>> Open a command prompt and type dir *.jpg /s > jpg.txt and open jpg.txt with
>> notepad and do a search on the jpg if you remember the name
>>
>> The Search 4.0 on XP, Vista and Windows 7 seems to be modeled on Google's
>> Desktop Search and has a limitation in search behavior you should be aware
>> of . If you're doing a search on filename with fox in it, it won't bring up
>> for example Firefox.exe. It will list filenames if they have a separator
>> like a space or _ before the search word, Install_Fox.exe for example.
>>
>> So if you are doing a search using the built in Search, you need to supply
>> the starting characters at the beginning of the filename or beginning after
>> a separator. So if you ask for it to search for ox, it won't return with a
>> fox, which is OK for an internet search engine, but it defeats the purpose
>> of filename search in Windows, in my opinion.- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> 
>> Default location for Pictures folder is C:UsersUserNamePictures
> There is no folder called 'Pictures', within Users<my user name>.
> 
>> Another place to check would be C:UsersPublicPublic Pictures
> All that is in this folder, is a folder called 'Sample Pictures'.
> 
>> You can do an all out search by opening Computer and typing ext:jpg in the Search field (this will take a while)
> If I do this it returns, among other things, files such as:
>
> g:My PicturesDigital PicturesPhoto FrameFootball 2007
>
> These I would expect the search to find, as these are .JPG files that
> I have. However, when I paste this path into explorer, I get the
> message:
>
> Windows cannot find 'g:My PicturesDigital PicturesPhoto Frame
> Football 2007'. Check the spelling and try again.
>
> So, from the search I can see the files are there, I just can't get at
> them.
>
> Wher can I go now?
>
> TIA
>
> Duncs

Try navigating to that folder from My computer or Windows Explorer
instead of cutting pasting the path. You might be copy a space before
or after the full path name.

gls858

Duncs · Oct 23, 2009

On Oct 21, 7:47 pm, gls858 <gls...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Duncs wrote:
> > On Oct 17, 6:56 pm, "Tae Song" <tae_s...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> "Duncs" <true.kilted.s...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> >>news:3cd8504c-6f5e-44ef-a592-60ecd32591b7@w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com....
>
> >>> Oh where oh where can they be!
> >>> Help, but I can't find my Pictures amywhere on my hard-drive. I've
> >>> looked in "C:usersduncsdocumentsPictures", but I don't have a
> >>> folder called "documents", or indeed one called "Pictures".
> >>> In Explorer, under 'Desktop | Duncs' I have the following, among other
> >>> things:
> >>> Documents - This has a location of G:
> >>> I don't however, have anything for 'Pictures' or 'My Pictures'. When
> >>> I do a search on my G: drive, for .JPG files, it lists all the
> >>> picture files that I have...so where are they? Displaying the folder
> >>> shows the following-"My Pictures (G", but still I can't find them.
> >>> There is no folder called 'My Pictures' or 'Pictures' on the G: drive..
> >>> If I try to right-click and open location, I get the message "G:My
> >>> Pictures is not accessible. The directory name is invalid."
> >>> Can anyone help?
> >>> Many TIA
> >>> Duncs
> >> Default location for Pictures folder is C:UsersUserNamePictures
>
> >> Another place to check would be C:UsersPublicPublic Pictures
>
> >> You can do an all out search by opening Computer and typing ext:jpg in the
> >> Search field (this will take a while)
>
> >> or
>
> >> Open a command prompt and type dir *.jpg /s /p
>
> >> or
>
> >> Open a command prompt and type dir *.jpg /s > jpg.txt and open jpg.txt with
> >> notepad and do a search on the jpg if you remember the name
>
> >> The Search 4.0 on XP, Vista and Windows 7 seems to be modeled on Google's
> >> Desktop Search and has a limitation in search behavior you should be aware
> >> of . If you're doing a search on filename with fox in it, it won't bring up
> >> for example Firefox.exe. It will list filenames if they have a separator
> >> like a space or _ before the search word, Install_Fox.exe for example.
>
> >> So if you are doing a search using the built in Search, you need to supply
> >> the starting characters at the beginning of the filename or beginning after
> >> a separator. So if you ask for it to search for ox, it won't return with a
> >> fox, which is OK for an internet search engine, but it defeats the purpose
> >> of filename search in Windows, in my opinion.- Hide quoted text -
>
> >> - Show quoted text -
>
> >> Default location for Pictures folder is C:UsersUserNamePictures
> > There is no folder called 'Pictures', within Users<my user name>.
>
> >> Another place to check would be C:UsersPublicPublic Pictures
> > All that is in this folder, is a folder called 'Sample Pictures'.
>
> >> You can do an all out search by opening Computer and typing ext:jpg in the Search field (this will take a while)
> > If I do this it returns, among other things, files such as:
>
> > g:My PicturesDigital PicturesPhoto FrameFootball 2007
>
> > These I would expect the search to find, as these are .JPG files that
> > I have. However, when I paste this path into explorer, I get the
> > message:
>
> > Windows cannot find 'g:My PicturesDigital PicturesPhoto Frame
> > Football 2007'. Check the spelling and try again.
>
> > So, from the search I can see the files are there, I just can't get at
> > them.
>
> > Wher can I go now?
>
> > TIA
>
> > Duncs
>
> Try navigating to that folder from My computer or Windows Explorer
> instead of cutting pasting the path. You might be copy a space before
> or after the full path name.
>
> gls858- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

No folder called "My Pictures" appears in the G: drive, although a
search does display this as the path to the files.

Dave-UK · Oct 23, 2009

"Duncs" <true.kilted.scot@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Oct 21, 7:47 pm, gls858 <gls...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Duncs wrote:
>> > On Oct 17, 6:56 pm, "Tae Song" <tae_s...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >> "Duncs" <true.kilted.s...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> >>news:3cd8504c-6f5e-44ef-a592-60ecd32591b7@w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> >>> Oh where oh where can they be!
>> >>> Help, but I can't find my Pictures amywhere on my hard-drive. I've
>> >>> looked in "C:usersduncsdocumentsPictures", but I don't have a
>> >>> folder called "documents", or indeed one called "Pictures".
>> >>> In Explorer, under 'Desktop | Duncs' I have the following, among other
>> >>> things:
>> >>> Documents - This has a location of G:
>> >>> I don't however, have anything for 'Pictures' or 'My Pictures'. When
>> >>> I do a search on my G: drive, for .JPG files, it lists all the
>> >>> picture files that I have...so where are they? Displaying the folder
>> >>> shows the following-"My Pictures (G", but still I can't find them.
>> >>> There is no folder called 'My Pictures' or 'Pictures' on the G: drive.
>> >>> If I try to right-click and open location, I get the message "G:My
>> >>> Pictures is not accessible. The directory name is invalid."
>> >>> Can anyone help?
>> >>> Many TIA
>> >>> Duncs
>>
>> Try navigating to that folder from My computer or Windows Explorer
>> instead of cutting pasting the path. You might be copy a space before
>> or after the full path name.
>>
>> gls858- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> No folder called "My Pictures" appears in the G: drive, although a
> search does display this as the path to the files.

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