Downloading photos into folder or into My Pictures and the accidental copying!

[Guest]

Sometimes - not always - when I download into My Pictures from my camera - and then select certain pictures for e-mailing - all of a sudden it starts copying like mad and the next thing you know you have a million copies which take forever to delete and sometimes keep making copies while I am deleting. What am I hitting that is causing this? I use ctrl key to select more than one, of course. Help!

 

[Yves Alarie]

No big problem.
When you use the Ctrl key, what you need to do is click on the file you want
with your mouse and then REMOVE your finger from your mouse before moving
your mouse pointer down to the next file you want. You are inadvertently
"dragging" the file by not removing your finger from the mouse after
clicking on the file name and this automatically makes copies of the files.
Just delete the duplicate, triplicate etc. files. They will go to the
Recycle bin. Open the Recycle bin and delete them from there also.

Sometimes - not always - when I download into My Pictures from my camera -

and then select certain pictures for e-mailing - all of a sudden it starts
copying like mad and the next thing you know you have a million copies which
take forever to delete and sometimes keep making copies while I am deleting.
What am I hitting that is causing this? I use ctrl key to select more than
one, of course. Help!

 

[John Inzer]

They will go to the Recycle bin. Open the
Recycle bin and delete them from there also.

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FWIW...if you wish to delete something and
bypass the recycle bin...you can hold your
*Shift* key while clicking...Delete / Yes...

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[Guest]

Deleting is not the problem - the continuous copying is. I may be touching the mouse when I use the ctrl key - will try and not do that as obviously sometimes I do not have this "copying" problem. It is like dealiing with a couple of rabbits

 

[Guest]

Thanks - and I will try that - however I have not been "dragging" - am familiar with that - and I have been deleting after it is in recycle. However when You try and delete the "millions" they start making more and more copies and it ends up taking forever
I will try - not touching the mouse - may have been doing it unconsciously
Patricia

 

[John Inzer]

Deleting is not the problem - the continuous copying is.
I may be touching the mouse when I use the ctrl key -
will try and not do that as obviously sometimes I do not
have this "copying" problem. It is like dealiing with a
couple of rabbits!

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The reason deleting was mentioned is because
you will want to delete the unwanted copies.

Yves is giving you the correct info...here's a
slightly different description of the same issue:

Maybe the following info will help:

It happens occasionally to most anyone who
is trying to multiple select by holding the Ctrl
or Shift key while left clicking to select the
image files.

The copies are created when you fail to
completely release the mouse button before
you move the pointer to another file. If a group
of selected files is dragged...even the slightest
bit...the next mouse click will produce copies
of all the previously highlighted files.

It's somewhat easier if you have your Folder
Options set to Single Click...this way you can
select/deselect a file with just a mouse over
and you don't have to click. For multiples you
still have to hold...Ctrl or Shift.

No click...no drag...no copy...maybe that's
your solution.

Actually if you open the folder the images are
saved in and do a search for Copy you can
delete all of them.

Go to...Edit / Select All...or type...Ctrl / A...

With all files named Copy of xxxx.xxx selected...
go to...File / Delete...or press your Delete key...
or...right click the group and choose "Delete".

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[Guest]

I have the same problem as Patricia, and I agree it does not seem to be overtly tied to mouse dragging. Futhermore I was intending to keep my pics in My Pictures and I have discovered zillions of copies in My documents. I wonder if we have some kind of a rabbit virus? And I wonder if the problem is in "copying" or is it in "backing up'. Maybe these are one and the same

Thanks John for the tip on deleting all files named 'copy of .....

 

[John Inzer]

I have the same problem as Patricia, and
I agree it does not seem to be overtly tied
to mouse dragging.

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Try what I suggested about setting your Folder
Options to "Single click to open an item"...
Now you can select one or more files with a
mouse over...no clicking will be required.

Guess what...your unwanted copies will cease.
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Thanks John for the tip on deleting all files
named 'copy of .....'

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You're welcome.

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