I should fix that.) At the third level, you can create as many folders as you need to store sets of photos. (Mine are filed, oddly enough, by camera. Many people have a different folder for each year, but you could also have folders for different types of subject, such as people, places and things. You can then create subfolders that meet your needs.
Make sure it's not in Windows' My Pictures folder, in My Documents. Start by creating a new folder called, perhaps, My Photos either on the C: hard drive or D: partition, if there is one. Windows XP has a wizard to do the transfer, if you want.
#How to delete duplicate photos in windows 8 Pc#
In the long run, it's easier to copy or move digital photos to your PC by extracting the memory card and plugging it into a card slot or USB adaptor. However, for backup purposes, you really need to find all your photos and consolidate them in a single folder tree with lots of subdirectories.Īs part of this process, you should go through all the photo organisers on your hard drive, extract the photos, and uninstall the programs. There are lots of free duplicate file finders, and some will even find duplicates where the photos are different resolutions or sizes. We were wondering if there was some sort of program (preferably free) that would sort this mess out by removing/deleting all duplicates.
This makes the deletion of duplicates a mammoth task. I think they may all have duplicates held in various folders, and I'm not sure even where to find them all.
However, over the years we've used quite a few Windows programs, the main ones being Corel Photo Center (until they started to ask for payment), Kodak Gallery, Tesco photo center, Canon and Olympus camera programs, and Boots. We're backing up our photos to an external hard drive.