In My Pictures why the duplicates when highlighted?

[John Brown]

In My Pictures if I highlight a few pics, ready to do whatever with them, I
notice additional copies of the pics are created..why?...and how to stop
this?

 

[Unknown]

How do you highlite a few pictures?
"John Brown" <John@nospamthanks.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In My Pictures if I highlight a few pics, ready to do whatever with them,
> I notice additional copies of the pics are created..why?...and how to stop
> this?

 

[John Brown]

Left mouse click.

"Unknown" <unknown@unknown.kom> wrote in message
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> How do you highlite a few pictures?
> "John Brown" <John@nospamthanks.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:fkekcn$kbq$1@aioe.org...
>> In My Pictures if I highlight a few pics, ready to do whatever with them,
>> I notice additional copies of the pics are created..why?...and how to
>> stop this?
>
>

 

[Alan Edwards]

I suspect you are moving the mouse when you left-click and creating
copies. I have a friend who does that often, creating copies of files
and even folders.

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.org/index.htm



On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:47:17 -0000, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support, "John Brown"
<John@nospamthanks.co.uk> wrote:

>In My Pictures if I highlight a few pics, ready to do whatever with them, I
>notice additional copies of the pics are created..why?...and how to stop
>this?

 

[John Brown]

No...In My Pictures I open a folder in which there are, say 50 pics shown as
thumbnails....
I hold down the Control key and then click the thumbnails one by one...after
I've clicked and highlighted about 4 or 5 thumbnails eg pic1, pic6, pic8,
pic9 etc another 4 or 5 thumbnails appear in the folder entitled copy of
pic1, copy of pic6, copy of pic8, copy of pic9 etc?

"Alan Edwards" <edwards@southcom.com.au> wrote in message
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>I suspect you are moving the mouse when you left-click and creating
> copies. I have a friend who does that often, creating copies of files
> and even folders.
>
> ...Alan
> --
> Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
> http://dts-l.org/index.htm
>
>
>
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:47:17 -0000, in
> microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support, "John Brown"
> <John@nospamthanks.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>In My Pictures if I highlight a few pics, ready to do whatever with them,
>>I
>>notice additional copies of the pics are created..why?...and how to stop
>>this?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Alan is right, you are moving your mouse sideways unintentionally. Try this,
open a folder, and highlight one file. Press the control key, and then down
arrow twice, Let up ctrl, then press spacebar, then ctrl-down arrow twice,
then let up control, press spacebar. You can do this any number of times
without the copying.

--
Mark L. Ferguson
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..
"John Brown" <John@nospamthanks.co.uk> wrote in message
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> No...In My Pictures I open a folder in which there are, say 50 pics shown
> as thumbnails....
> I hold down the Control key and then click the thumbnails one by
> one...after I've clicked and highlighted about 4 or 5 thumbnails eg pic1,
> pic6, pic8, pic9 etc another 4 or 5 thumbnails appear in the folder
> entitled copy of pic1, copy of pic6, copy of pic8, copy of pic9 etc?
>
> "Alan Edwards" <edwards@southcom.com.au> wrote in message
> news:qorlm3loekhqtpoke2d1vqe7qj8a99uevt@4ax.com...
>>I suspect you are moving the mouse when you left-click and creating
>> copies. I have a friend who does that often, creating copies of files
>> and even folders.
>>
>> ...Alan
>> --
>> Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
>> http://dts-l.org/index.htm
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:47:17 -0000, in
>> microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support, "John Brown"
>> <John@nospamthanks.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>In My Pictures if I highlight a few pics, ready to do whatever with them,
>>>I
>>>notice additional copies of the pics are created..why?...and how to stop
>>>this?
>

 

[John Brown]

You are correct. When highlighting the files less speedily works just fine.
Many thanks.
J
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"Mark L. Ferguson" <marfer_mvp@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Alan is right, you are moving your mouse sideways unintentionally. Try
> this, open a folder, and highlight one file. Press the control key, and
> then down arrow twice, Let up ctrl, then press spacebar, then ctrl-down
> arrow twice, then let up control, press spacebar. You can do this any
> number of times without the copying.
>
> --
> Mark L. Ferguson
> e-mail subject line must include "QZ" or it's deleted
> Holiday Lights: http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/Xmaslgt.zip
> .
> "John Brown" <John@nospamthanks.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:fketdo$f50$1@aioe.org...
>> No...In My Pictures I open a folder in which there are, say 50 pics shown
>> as thumbnails....
>> I hold down the Control key and then click the thumbnails one by
>> one...after I've clicked and highlighted about 4 or 5 thumbnails eg pic1,
>> pic6, pic8, pic9 etc another 4 or 5 thumbnails appear in the folder
>> entitled copy of pic1, copy of pic6, copy of pic8, copy of pic9 etc?
>>
>> "Alan Edwards" <edwards@southcom.com.au> wrote in message
>> news:qorlm3loekhqtpoke2d1vqe7qj8a99uevt@4ax.com...
>>>I suspect you are moving the mouse when you left-click and creating
>>> copies. I have a friend who does that often, creating copies of files
>>> and even folders.
>>>
>>> ...Alan
>>> --
>>> Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
>>> http://dts-l.org/index.htm
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:47:17 -0000, in
>>> microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support, "John Brown"
>>> <John@nospamthanks.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>>In My Pictures if I highlight a few pics, ready to do whatever with
>>>>them, I
>>>>notice additional copies of the pics are created..why?...and how to stop
>>>>this?
>>
>
>