Re: pics

Marge,
Yes, I had checked the properties before and the only info offered was the
location they were in and date of creation.  I checked again anyway to see
if I missed anything.  It says the type is a Quick Time picture.  And when I
said it was created May of 2002, I was correct, but this time I noticed they
were "modified" in 1997.

The only reason I cared about finding out where or how I got them was that
that might lead to some sort of listing so I could make sense of them.  As
they are they are a half gig of wasted space.  I know I'm guilty of hiding
things in strange places on my hard drive every once in awhile, but normally
I recognize them.

If I could just view them as a slideshow or find a more fluid way of opening
them to see if I want to keep any, I would give them more of a look.  But QT
only gives a pic at a time -open file, find it, open, close - repeat.  A
real drag.  Meanwhile I have plenty of space on the hard drive so I don't
have to dump them.  They can sit for 2 more years.

Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] pics


> One other thought just occurred to me.  Usually you have some way -
> right click or menu driven - to see a file's properties.  Maybe that
> would tell you what program either created them or they were created
> for??
>
> I was going to also suggest the copy and paste routine...you already
> know about it; most cumbersome, but it does let you use them.  Of
> course that doesn't help figure out WHAT the image is....
>
> They do sound like one of those professional photo collections that
> are included with assorted software - when I said 'clip art', I meant
> not the cartoonish stuff, but art you can clip and use - like it's in
> the public domain or you have acquired rights to it via some software
> or other.
>
> I do know the frustration of not being able to recall where these
> came from or what you were thinking at the time.  Happens to me ALL
> the time and more and more frequently...sort of a stepping off a curb
> you weren't expecting feeling:-)  I've been doing that with
> stuff...putting it down somewhere and not remembering where....all
> week; driving me nuts.
>
> One other thing....do you recall ever loading a free trial of any
> software that was garden related?  Sometimes that stuff comes with
> image files that you can save when you remove the trial software; you
> could have wanted the images but not the software and just copied the
> contents of their image file to a "safe" place like your scanner
> folder:-)  Been there; done that and then no clue where it came from
> or what it was supposed to be that I found so necessary to keep:-)
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland

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