so on my cam there was just under 200 pics and my mom put them all on the desktop area of the computer without desinating a specific folder so now the wholse things filled with pics ...

her plan was to take the pics from the desktop email them to her self (1 at a time becase thats the kind of person she is she never wants anything to be easy..) and just looking at this mess shes created im not even sure hows shes going to open them let alone email her self them if she cant even click 3/4's of them ....

can any one tell me if heres a fix i could perform to find em all and put em in a folder all at once (with out the ones in the folder becomming a shortcut ???)

Lol 1 at a time.. You can try control plus z.

Open the desktop folder?

I found a way all on my own didnt think would work :shrug:

pressed start clicked search typed in "Seventyonemillion" because thast what all the things from the cam had a sa name prob cuz the last thing i uploaded ...

clciked open containing folder

made a new folder named it then held control clicked everything except for a few select pics and the vids sent them to it

then made a new folder and did same for vids

deleted everything else

went to desktop sorted it by name messed all the icons up prsed control z alot fixed nothing but undid my image folders and had to do the process again ... and for osme reason made 26 shortcut copies of the 1st 12 images ... shreded em and washed em with bleach (I love window washer) any way guess worked out where the icons were before i orted them by name (only did that becasue 1 my folders didnt show up so was off screen)

any way prob gonna get introuble for sorting out that mess but was definatly worth it the desktop is now clean and useable ^.^

Sounds like you could benefit from the extra real estate of a dual monitor set up. :tongue:

Couldn't you create a folder someplace, then open it, then shift click a bunch of them at a time, then move them into the folder?

[edit] sounds like you got it.....now show Mom how to do it !

If they're all on the desktop, just open C:/Users/YouName/Desktop, create a folder for the images, then select them all and drag and drop.

Or C:\Documents and Settings\(your name here)\Desktop. If you have XP, it will be my example. If you have Vista or Windows 7, it will be under Users.

Well if you don't have anything on your desktop you can always just use the select all command (ctrl+A) and then drag them to a folder you want

If you have other things on your desktop that you don't want going into another a folder then you can still make a whole bunch of room on it by selecting about half or 3/4 of the pictures on the screen and dragging them to a folder then organize your desktop and that should automatically organize the remainder of the pictures on the empty spots on the desktop.

What infernal combination of Windows and Unix are you running? Surely such an operating system is the spawn of the most unholy of matrimonies.

... or open a command terminal, cd to the desktop create a directory, and cp *.jpg (or whatever fornat) into your new dir.
Not sure of the DOS line commands, but nothing faster...

God, I love the command line..

copy/xcopy/robocopy depending on a few conditions.


Man, the number of times I try using "ls" on Windows only to go "Wait... I meant dir!!!!!"

Edit: wait... why would you use cp instead of mv (move on Windows)? if you use cp you'd have to rm them afterwards (del on Windows)

..because it is late here, I am tired and have a couple Guinness pints in me?

Public Service Announcement, children:

Don't drink and SA

Indeed. There's no http://xkcd.com/323/ for sysadmins

Get your mom a community class in basic computer skills for her next birthday or Christmas. Also a thumb drive to store all her pictures, which take up way too much memory.


Here's a story to make you chuckle. A few years ago, my MIL calls because she and her sister are having problems getting the sister's laptop working on her network. So the I go over, because the hubs is sick with a headcold. I get there, and the sister has stripped the MIL's ISP from the desktop. Because she can't bring up her home page. :rofl:
I reinstall the ISP for the desktop, configure the wireless network, get her laptop into the system. As I am leaving, the sis complains she can't bring up her home page. WTF? I walk over to the laptop, take it from her, move the cursor to the home icon on the toolbar, and click. I ask her is this her home page. It is. Her jaw drops.
I do not laugh, I do not mock her. They are elderly. I walk outside, get in my car, and go home. Where my husband and I laugh for a good twenty minutes.

My wife is so dense with a computer it amazes me. I throw up my hands and tell her, "Click until something good happens!"

[edit]....after not retaining what I have shown her countless times....

My mum can't even figure out that the left click and right click function exactly the same on a laptop as they do using a mouse. She ALWAYS double clicks with the right one to open things then has no idea why it isn't working.

she knew how to remove the ISP software but didn't know how to click the home icon?

Yep. I have no idea how she figured it out. She mentioned that the grandson had also helped out, perhaps it was him. They were also on the phone ranting at the ISP because she couldn't get her homepage to show up. They knew enough to uninstall software, but not how to use the toolbar.