Documents & Picture folders


  1. Posts : 379
    Summary Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 CPU AMD Athlon II X2 250 23 °C
       #1

    Documents & Picture folders


    Good evening.I have windows 7 home premium desktop.Been trying to sort my picture folder out getting rid of some older ones'Well not getting rid of just moving them to another backup'.
    Regarding my picture folder I removed all the photos to an external drive to sort out then moved the ones I wanted to keep back to my picture folder on the C drive,Now this picture folder is also in my documents,Is that correct.
    The way I'm looking at it this,If I have 10gb of pictures in my picture folder,And it shows that folder in my documents does that mean that there are 20gb of storage on my C drive?.I tried to delete the picture folder that's in my documents but found that it was a duplicate to the one in my pictures.
    Many thanks.
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  2. Posts : 359
    Windows 7 Professional 64bit
       #2

    Start menu - right click my documents folder - properties

    See the size of the folder

    Does that answer your question?
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  3. Posts : 14,606
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7600
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    i dont think it does mangoh,
    i think it will tell the op the size of each folder ,presumably 10gb each, one could be a copy adding up to 20gb, however it may be a shortcut to the original folder location,
    we need to establish whether its a duplicate or a shortcut,

    try moving it to your users folder and see if it asks to merge, if its a duplicate copy then it will ask to replace the exsisting files. if so say yes then you will have one copy. 10gb.
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  4. Posts : 359
    Windows 7 Professional 64bit
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    boohbah said:
    i dont think it does mangoh,
    i think it will tell the op the size of each folder ,presumably 10gb each, one could be a copy adding up to 20gb, however it may be a shortcut to the original folder location,
    we need to establish whether its a duplicate or a shortcut,

    try moving it to your users folder and see if it asks to merge, if its a duplicate copy then it will ask to replace the exsisting files. if so say yes then you will have one copy. 10gb.
    Oh thats new to me!

    I thought it would just say the size of the shortcut folder not including the size of the 10GB files.

    I will try myself tomorrow :)

    Meh virtual hi 5, I think we both have the right idea of solving this thread.

    Establishing if it was a shortcut folder or not...
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