Re: Can't Browse files
- From: "R. C. White" <rc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:19:31 -0500
Hi, alta47.
Well, I'm an accountant - and retired at that. Not a techie of any kind. So I can't answer all your questions. And they didn't let me help write Vista, so I can't explain everything they did there, either. But I've been using Vista for nearly three years, since it was in the last year or so of beta testing, and have run nothing much but Vista Ultimate x64 since it went RTM in November 2006. So my mindset is not the same as yours. I've almost forgotten WinXP. :^}
To me, it seems that Vista is like WinXP with security. The best rough analogy might be like adding a lock to your front door, and then being angry because now you can't get in without a key. You didn't need a key before - but neither did a burglar. Now a key is needed and the burglar doesn't have one - but you do. All you have to do is learn how and when to use it.
As for storing files in protected folders, it may be more like the rule that you should not store rat poison alongside sugar in your pantry. It's just too easy to grab the wrong white powder when you are in a hurry or distracted.
Those are not perfect analogies, of course, but maybe they illustrate the points.
For example, Vista now enforces the rule that program data must not go into the Program Files folder.
Why is that?
See the poison-in-the-pantry analogy. C:\Program Files should be for the files that actually run the program - like Notepad.exe. The Memo that you write with Notepad should not be in Program Files. By default, Notepad will offer to save your .txt file in YOUR Documents folder (C:\Users\alta47\Documents), but you can easily click Save As... and put it into X:\MyStuff - or almost any other location you choose. It will strongly resist if you try to put your document into Program Files, saying that you don't have permission. If you REALLY want to put it into Program Files, and if you have the Administrator credentials, then you can start Notepad by right-clicking Run as Administrator and furnishing the password. Having shown that you "have the key", you can then "put the poison in the pantry" if you insist.
want to stores the pictures that I am importing from my camera. If I connect the camera to this computer with Vista, it just imports the pictures to who-knows-where. Then I search and search
Have you looked in C:\Users\alta47\Pictures?
Where did YOU tell Vista to put the pictures it Imports? You didn't say which photo software you are using, but in Vista's Windows Photo Gallery, click File | Options | Import and in the Import to: box, see where it says it will put photos that it imports. If you don't like the default (YOUR Pictures folder), then Browse to the one you want to use.
You can use Vista's Search if you know any part of the filename - like DSCN or .jpg or .avi.
When all else fails, you can always use methods that have worked ever since MS-DOS. Open a Command Prompt window and use the good old DOS command: Dir - with switches and parameters to look for what you need. In the Command Prompt window, type the command followed by /? to see what I call a "mini-Help file" showing how to modify the command.
For example:
Dir C:\ /s/a
That will list every file on Drive C:. It starts in the Root ("\") and lists files and folders, including all subfolders ("/s"), and all files ("/a"), even those with Hidden or System attributes. You'll probably have time for a cup of coffee while this lists scrolls!
Or Dir C:\Users\alta47\*.jpg /s
This should show every JPEG file in your own user account. Many other Dir variations are possible; just spend some time exploring. Once you've located the proper directory (folder), then you can browse to it with Windows Explorer or open it in Windows Photo Gallery or other application.
It really is disgusting.
You can rant about Vista and stay ignorant of its features. Or you can learn how to use its strengths. The choice is yours.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
"alta47" <alta47@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OgLpPHz1IHA.5728@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"R. C. White" <rc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:DD35B253-691A-4058-B514-01967934CCC2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxMost likely, though, you are trying to save files to the wrong places. For example, Vista now enforces the rule that program data must not go into the Program Files folder.
Why is that?
And WinXP folders like "My Computer" do not exist in Vista except as "junctions" pointing the way to the new locations that Vista uses.
Why? I don't get it. It's my computer and I can't move files and folders around and arrange them to be where I want them to be?
Here's a related example:
I have several different computers that I use. All but one have XP. This one that I am using now has Vista. If I connect my digital camera to any of my other computers which have XP, a program runs and I get to decide where I want to stores the pictures that I am importing from my camera. If I connect the camera to this computer with Vista, it just imports the pictures to who-knows-where. Then I search and search and try to figure out where my pictures landed on my computer. If I try to find them using what I thought would be something like the Windows Explorer that I have on every other computer that had XP on down to Windows 3.1, it doesn't work -- Why? -- because Vista decided that I don't need that function, or I shouldn't have that function, or I am too stupid to know where I want my files to go.
It really is disgusting.
.
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