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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: ideasguy on March 12, 2007, 01:09:27 PM

Title: Using folders - linking photos to plants - resizing photos
Post by: ideasguy on March 12, 2007, 01:09:27 PM

In the old days, we had no such thing as icons when we explored folders.
Personally, I don?t use them and judge them as an insult to intelligence.

The reason I object is that you cant see the important details about the files on your computer when you look at large icons.
This is the single biggest problem users of my software experience.

A file has a number of elements
a) The full path and folder name where files are stored.
e.g.
C:\folder1\folder2\
C:  is the normal drive letter of your computer hard disk
c:\ is referred to as the ROOT folder
c:\folder1 is a sub folder off the root.
c:\folder1\folder2 is a sub folder off the folder folder1

b) In the vast majority of cases, each file has a stem, followed by a dot, followed by an extension.In the case of photos uploaded from your digital camera, file names look like this:
rimg0005.jpg

rimg0005 is the stem
jpg is the extension

c) File size

Put it all together and the fill path and file name is:
C:\folder1\folder2\rimg0005.jpg

When you explore a folder in Large Icons mode, you cant see file extensions, and you cant see  File size.

Please shun icons. Instead, try this:Open My Computer or Windows Explorer
Click View on the Menu tab (top of screen)
You'll see:
Large Icons
Small Icons
List
Details
Thumbnails (W2000, XP, Vista etc)

Recommended option 1
When you are working with photos (for linking to plants and garden areas) click Thumbnails

Recommended option 2
This is the more important one, the reason for posting this message:
When you are working with files, photos ? e.g. with a view to posting on this forum, Click Details (under View tab).

You'll find the file extensions are given.
You'll also see very important info ? the file size.

For posting on the forum, the file size must not exceed 125 kb

Title: Re: Using folders - linking photos to plants - resizing photos
Post by: ideasguy on October 27, 2011, 11:10:53 PM

I'm searching for the project we worked on about this time last year - Working with folders, and found this old topic.
Thought I'd revive it to keep it handy.