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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Using search to consolidate a set of photos

Because of a poorly set up automatic backup system, the pictures from my phone are contained in about 300 ­subfolders on my Windows XP laptop – one per day. How can I get them all into one folder?
Dr John Luffrum

Run Windows Explorer and go to the top folder in the backup tree. Press F3 to start a search, and search for *.jpg (assuming they are JPEG photos). Click the Folders icon to get back to your hard drive, and scroll the window until you can see a folder where you want to put the photos. Press Ctrl-A to select all the photos in the right-hand pane, hold down the left mouse button, and drag all the photos to your chosen directory.

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