Computer Question

[Ncostello]

I kept many photos of my trucks and vacation/trips on my computer at work. I'd take them using the memory card on the camera, then transfer them to my computer. When I knew I was getting a new computer, I put them on a CD so I wouldn't loose them.



I've had my new computer now for about a year. And I remember about 4 months ago I put the CD in my computer to view all the files and select a few for slideshow screensaver.



Now I cant find the CD anywhere. Is there anyway to recover those photos on my PC? I only moved a couple from the CD to a folder on my desktop. The remaining ones were looked at but not moved or copied from the CD.



Does a PC store a copy of such a file that was viewed from a CD, but not copied over to the hard drive? I just used Microsoft Picture Manager to view.



I tried a test using a CD with other photos. When I go to recent documents I can see the file name, but if I try to open it without the CD being installed... it basically tells me to install the CD cause it can't find the file.



So basically I'm now assuming the hard drive doesn't automatically save copies of everything it "sees" on removable data storage. Floppy or memory cards.



At least I can't find them. If not... no big deal. I'll probably eventually find the CD. I hope.

 

[p-Bar]

Your windows viewer is looking for the D: drive disk sort of like another hard drive. no disk no pics sorry

 

[kenny61]

Yes windows does not automatically copy the files. If you think you copied them you can do a wild card search Start- Search - files and folders then search *.jpg

 

[Ncostello]

Yes... I already did a wild search for anything that was a photo. I got 4000 files and looked at them all. All the photos I knew I had on here... plus every other type of file that either makes a picture, logo or icon from programs and websites etc. The ones I wanted were not on there. So I sort of already knew my answer before I asked. But I'm not computer guru so I figured I'd at least give it a shot.



Thanks anyhow!! I guess I better work on my detective skills now and go find the CD. It has to be around here somewhere. Hmmm. Maybe I should use labels.

 

[kenny61]

Maybe I should use labels.

Black sharpie works fine

 

[Joe G.]

Some ink jet printers are capable of printing on a CD.

 

[TRoss]

I recommend Picasa, its a free google service. The viewer itself is far superior to any other I have used, but it also lets you sync your albums to a web server. You can control the privacy settings for your web hosted albums, share them with some people, but not all of them, and not with everyone. Its pretty handy. Plus, if anything ever happens to your computer, they are right there. Give it a try.