Can you move the photos from Picasa to My Pictures Folder?
"sleeplessinnewjersey" <sleeplessinnewjersey[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message news:8B41355F-C6E4-4DF7-88A4-F2831918D9C3[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text] > Because of repeated errors I decided to reinstall Windows XP Home SP2
> through a set of recovery CD's provided by the PC manufacturer. (I do not
> have a regular installation CD.) I backed up my My Documents folder to my
> external hard drive in a cut and paste operation in Windows Explorer that
> I
> have performed successfully in the past.
>
> I selected a so-called destructive recovery and, as expected, was warned
> that a full format would be conducted with the loss of all data. (I doubt
> that any such format occurred, but that's another issue.) I proceeded as
> in
> the past umpteen times I have had to use system recovery.
>
> I set about reinstalling and updating my most important applications.
> Then
> I transferred the contents of my backup to the new My Documents folder.
> It
> went as expected. Next, I set about reinstalling my other applications.
>
> One of those was Google Picasa. I had it search "My Documents" for photos
> and other images. It found and indexed some images that I didn't want in
> Picasa. This was expected. However it didn't find any of the more than
> 3000
> photos in "My Pictures."
>
> I opened Windows Explorer/My Documents/My Pictures and found that the
> subfolders I had set up were present. All were empty. I checked my other
> document folders and found the correct folders, which also were empty. I
> had
> backed up my "Bookmarks" folder. While the subfolders were there, none of
> my
> over 1000 bookmarks were present either.
>
> It looked like a complete disaster, or so I thought.
>
> A few days later I opened Picasa. To my surprise and delight, Picasa
> found
> and indexed all of my missing photos! I concluded that they had to be on
> the
> drive, just not accessable in Windows Explorer. I confirmed this by
> searching for individual photos by name in both Google Desktop Search and
> Windows Search. Both found the photos sought.
>
> Next I searched for music files by the name of the artist. They also were
> found. I repeated all of these searches on my external hard drive with
> the
> same results.
>
> I believe that all of my missing files are on both hard drives. I don't
> know whether to blame Windows for screwing up the back up and restore
> operations or the manufacturer's recovery software for screwing up the
> reinstallation of Windows.
>
> This is the worst PC screw-up I have ever encountered in 15 years of using
> most of the Windows versions available in that period.
>
> BTW, I could perform another system recovery, but in light of my latest
> experience I am somewhat reluctant to use it.
>
> I would appreciate some advice about this unacceptable situation and what
> I
> might do to correct it.
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