This is the fifth part of Making the Miles Fade – a guide to using your smartphone, tablet, PC or laptop to bring you closer to friends and family.
In this part of the book, you’ll discover how to use Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp to send instant messages to friends and family across the internet.
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May 18, 2020 at 9:39 am
Hi Kathryn,
Apologies for not replying sooner but I am really struggling with this!! I downloaded the photos by clicking on a box marked ‘Download to PC’ and it seems to have gone to ‘Onedrive’ instead of the usual site. I can see these pics but cannot do anything with them and have tried to download them again using the app you suggested but it just goes straight to one drive. I have pictures in 3/4 different folders, marked ‘Pictures’ and one marked ‘Canon MP Navigator’ and now ‘Onedrive.
It would be useful to have them in one folder, could this be done?
Rgards, Trevor
May 20, 2020 at 11:13 am
Hi Trevor,
This does sound frustrating – I’ve no idea why OneDrive thought it should got involved? How strange.
If you’re in File Explorer, you should be able to click on a photo and drag it around the screen by holding down the left mouse button and moving the mouse around. You can then “drop” it into a different folder in the list on the left hand side of the File Explorer window. To do this, release the mouse button when the photo is on top of the folder you want it to go into. If you manage to do this with one photo, you can then select lots at once by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking on all the photos you want to move.
See how you get on with that and let me know if you have any more questions.
Take care,
Kathryn
May 11, 2020 at 4:43 pm
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May 11, 2020 at 4:40 pm
Hi
Having uploaded photos from my phone to the PC how do I find them again ? I have gone through all the picture files and there is no sign of what I recently entered. It’s driving me to drink!!!! Can you help?
Regards, Trevor
May 12, 2020 at 11:12 am
Hi Trevor,
Well, we can’t have that can we? Especially this early in the day 🙂
Can you tell me how you uploaded them? Was it anything like the steps in this article:
https://techinnercircle.co.uk/library/how-to-transfer-photos-from-your-phone-to-your-pc-the-easy-way/
If you created a new folder for them, it might have saved the folder in Documents rather than Pictures, so it’s worth checking there too. I’d check any folders on your desktop too, just in case! Hope this helps.
Take care,
Kathryn