I have windows 7 home premium. I want to move, not copy, some photo files to another folder. I know how to do that but the thumbnails are too small to tell exactly if that is the one I want to move. When I open it and see that I do want to move it, I can't. I know I can remember the file name, close the file then find it and then move it. since I have a lot to do it would be much simpler to just move it while it is open. Can this be done?
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Rick B 8N WA
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You can change the size of the thumbnails. Upper right corner of the window, a down arrow that shows "More Options" when your pointer hovers over it. Click it, then select Extra Large Icons. This might make them large enough to make your decisions. Bon Chance.
You should be able to just increase the thumbnail size. Open the folder, Right-click on any empty spot, and a menu should pop up with (among other things) an option that says "view". Select "extra large icons" and the thumbnail size will increase. Alternately, using a program like IRFANVIEW (free, easy to use, and no spyware or tracking) will allow you to copy, move, or perform dozens of other functions with ease.
M-MAN
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Just change the thumbnail size. Open the folder and click on view at the top. Click on extra large icons, large icons or detail. The extra large brings up some good sized thumbnails.
SweetFeet
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Once you have enlarged your view of your photo files?
You can click on the first file you wish to move - then hold down your Shift key and use the Arrow buttons to arrow across (or down) to continue selecting the section of files you want to move.
Then Right-Click on top of your highlighted files and in the drop-down menu that appears, you can click on Cut.
Next open the folder you want to put them into... then click anywhere inside that open folder and press/hold both Cntrl key and the "V" key at the same time (which is the keyboard shortcut for "paste"). Now your photos will appear in that new folder.
THE METHOD ABOVE OR THE ONE BELOW will work for all types of files: photo, document, video, pdf, etc.
ONE CAVEAT: I prefer to highlight then right-click and select COPY rather than CUT... JUST TO BE ON THE SAFE side, so I don't lose any photos (say if your power blipped and caused your computer to flick off/then back on, you would likely lose them from your ?clipboard? and could never retrieve them ? whereas with the COPY method, then the original copies would still be in your original folder).
IF you choose this COPY method - you do the same thing: open the new folder and click inside it... then press Ctrl Key and "V". (Then after I verify that they copied OK to the new folder, I go back to the original folder where the photos I copied are still highlighted...and press delete ? which will remove the whole bunch that you had initially highlighted for moving.)
You can click on the first file you wish to move - then hold down your Shift key and use the Arrow buttons to arrow across (or down) to continue selecting the section of files you want to move.
Then Right-Click on top of your highlighted files and in the drop-down menu that appears, you can click on Cut.
Next open the folder you want to put them into... then click anywhere inside that open folder and press/hold both Cntrl key and the "V" key at the same time (which is the keyboard shortcut for "paste"). Now your photos will appear in that new folder.
THE METHOD ABOVE OR THE ONE BELOW will work for all types of files: photo, document, video, pdf, etc.
ONE CAVEAT: I prefer to highlight then right-click and select COPY rather than CUT... JUST TO BE ON THE SAFE side, so I don't lose any photos (say if your power blipped and caused your computer to flick off/then back on, you would likely lose them from your ?clipboard? and could never retrieve them ? whereas with the COPY method, then the original copies would still be in your original folder).
IF you choose this COPY method - you do the same thing: open the new folder and click inside it... then press Ctrl Key and "V". (Then after I verify that they copied OK to the new folder, I go back to the original folder where the photos I copied are still highlighted...and press delete ? which will remove the whole bunch that you had initially highlighted for moving.)
OK that that last method sounds good. However for safety I have 2 folders with exactly the same files. I'll move from 1 and leave the other alone so if anything goes wrong I have the 2nd folder. Reason I'm wanting to move instead of copy is I have over 900 photos and want to keep only the best. I want to go through and move the best. After that I will want to go through them again without those already moved being there. If they are still there because I copied them I might not know if I have already copied them or not.
SweetFeet
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I sometimes copy them all from folder #1 into the new #2 folder. Then rename the folders as "tractor show - original" and "tractor show - copy".
Then in new folder #2, I just sort down by deleting bad shots - also narrowing photos down to maybe the best two of a particular shot (because I will take 4-6 of any given shot).
With this method the "move" or "copy" is simpler because you select and copy ALL. Then sort/delete only in that new folder. BUT if something goes wrong when sorting folder #2... I still have all the originals in folder #1.
I also backup all my photo files to an external hard drive... and when I'm done, I disconnect it from my computer - plus I unplug it from the electrical outlet too.
Then in new folder #2, I just sort down by deleting bad shots - also narrowing photos down to maybe the best two of a particular shot (because I will take 4-6 of any given shot).
With this method the "move" or "copy" is simpler because you select and copy ALL. Then sort/delete only in that new folder. BUT if something goes wrong when sorting folder #2... I still have all the originals in folder #1.
I also backup all my photo files to an external hard drive... and when I'm done, I disconnect it from my computer - plus I unplug it from the electrical outlet too.
SweetFeet
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Also for narrowing the photos down: If you open them with Windows Photo Viewer, then you can arrow forward and back among the photos... and use the Photo Viewer's "delete" button on the ones you want to delete from folder two.
That way you can see them nearly full screen size (and even zoom in on them to decide on the photo clarity) to assist in the sorting process without opening/closing first one photo, then the next to decide which to keep and which to throw.
See the toolbar for Windows Photo Viewer in the brown strip at the bottom of this screen-shot/pic:
![a204411.jpg" width="650"](http://"http://photos.yesterdaystractors.com/gallery/uptest/a204411.jpg" width="650" /)
That way you can see them nearly full screen size (and even zoom in on them to decide on the photo clarity) to assist in the sorting process without opening/closing first one photo, then the next to decide which to keep and which to throw.
See the toolbar for Windows Photo Viewer in the brown strip at the bottom of this screen-shot/pic:
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