Where oh where have my pictures gone...

  • Thread starter Thread starter Duncs
  • Start date Start date
D

Duncs

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
 
Duncs said:
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
Click to expand...

G would seem to be a network or external drive. Is this connected?
 
G would seem to be a network or external drive. Is this connected?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -
Click to expand...

No, G: is an internal hard-drive, that I can access and open files
on. I just can't see / find my pictures.
 
G would seem to be a network or external drive. Is this connected?- Hide
quoted text -

- Show quoted text -
Click to expand...

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?
 
Duncs said:
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
Click to expand...




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.
 
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.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Default location for Pictures folder is C:\Users\UserName\Pictures
Click to expand...
There is no folder called 'Pictures' said:
Another place to check would be C:\Users\Public\Public Pictures
Click to expand...
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)
Click to expand...
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
 
Duncs said:
All that is in this folder, is a folder called 'Sample Pictures'.

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
Click to expand...

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
 
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 -
Click to expand...

No folder called "My Pictures" appears in the G: drive, although a
search does display this as the path to the files.
 
You seem to be getting nowhere with Vista's search.
Download the free version of AgentRansack and
search for .jpg files:http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/Page.aspx?page=download- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -
Click to expand...

This just gets better!

I've just ran AgentRansack on all my internal & external drives,
seaarching for .JPG files. Yes, it found some, but these were ones
that are part of apps etc. The most curious thing is, it didn't find
any of the images that I've mentioned before...the ones that should be
in "My Pictures" or "Pictures" and that Vista's own search locates, in
the correct location, with no problem! :(

Any suggestions?
 
Duncs said:
This just gets better!

I've just ran AgentRansack on all my internal & external drives,
seaarching for .JPG files. Yes, it found some, but these were ones
that are part of apps etc. The most curious thing is, it didn't find
any of the images that I've mentioned before...the ones that should be
in "My Pictures" or "Pictures" and that Vista's own search locates, in
the correct location, with no problem! :(

Any suggestions?
Click to expand...

You say that Vista's search tells you that it has found files but you cant find them.
Then AgentRansack tells you that it can't find the files that Vista says it found.
I would rather believe what AgentRansack says than Vista's search results.

It's probably Vista's convoluted indexing that's the problem; maybe Vista is relying
too much on an outdated index of files instead of the actual files themselves.

If AgentRansack cant find your files then they are not there.
I disabled Vista's search and the search service long ago, I found
it just too unreliable.
 
Back
Top