Saved Pictures with apparent error marker

[Cottonwoodian]

I have Vista Home Premium as the operating system on my notebook computer. I
have scanned 30 years of family pictures into my computers.

I have scanned thousands of pictures into my Pictures folders. Now when I
open folders and view the contents each picture has a small red dot with a
white exclamation mark on it. Photos I download from my camera do not have
this mark.

It seems to have no effect on slideshows or editing and printing of the
pictures. What does this apparent warning mean?

 

[Nate Grossman]

I have Vista Home Premium as the operating system on my notebook computer. I
have scanned 30 years of family pictures into my computers.

I have scanned thousands of pictures into my Pictures folders. Now when I
open folders and view the contents each picture has a small red dot with a
white exclamation mark on it. Photos I download from my camera do not have
this mark.

It seems to have no effect on slideshows or editing and printing of the
pictures. What does this apparent warning mean?

Sounds like it's the icon for one of your programs that you use for
viewing those pictures.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I have Vista Home Premium as the operating system on my notebook computer. I
have scanned 30 years of family pictures into my computers.

I have scanned thousands of pictures into my Pictures folders. Now when I
open folders and view the contents each picture has a small red dot with a
white exclamation mark on it. Photos I download from my camera do not have
this mark.

It seems to have no effect on slideshows or editing and printing of the
pictures. What does this apparent warning mean?

Did you scan the pictures with a demo version of some software? It sounds
like a watermark that goes away[1] after you pay for the software.

Note that there are other possible answers (as in Nate Grossman's post) -
that's just the one that I've experienced.

Try downloading the free Irfan Viewer and use it to look at the pictures.
If the mark goes away, that would prove that Nate Grossman is right and I
am wrong.

[1] But only in pictures that you scan *after* paying :-(

 

[Cottonwoodian]

Not trial software but HP Solutions Center which came with the scanner. The
mark appears only in Windows Explorer folders and has no apparent effect on
the use or viewing of the pictures. I suspect it may be a glitch in the HP
software which I have insalled and reinstalled several times. Still I wonder
why it would affect the explorer view of scans I have done 5 or more years
ago and has no affect on pictures downloaded from one of my cameras.

Thank you for your message.

I have Vista Home Premium as the operating system on my notebook computer. I
have scanned 30 years of family pictures into my computers.

I have scanned thousands of pictures into my Pictures folders. Now when I
open folders and view the contents each picture has a small red dot with a
white exclamation mark on it. Photos I download from my camera do not have
this mark.

It seems to have no effect on slideshows or editing and printing of the
pictures. What does this apparent warning mean?

Did you scan the pictures with a demo version of some software? It sounds
like a watermark that goes away[1] after you pay for the software.

Note that there are other possible answers (as in Nate Grossman's post) -
that's just the one that I've experienced.

Try downloading the free Irfan Viewer and use it to look at the pictures.
If the mark goes away, that would prove that Nate Grossman is right and I
am wrong.

[1] But only in pictures that you scan *after* paying :-(

 

[Nate Grossman]

Not trial software but HP Solutions Center which came with the scanner. The
mark appears only in Windows Explorer folders and has no apparent effect on
the use or viewing of the pictures.

In other words, it's like the "e" that appears before HTML files when
you view them in a folder with Explorer, right?

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Well, since you didn't mention that the scans (or some of them) were made
before you got the Vista computer, or which software scanned them, or which
software you used to view them, or the fact that some other software didn't
have this problem, you shouldn't have expected a relevant answer.

Not trial software but HP Solutions Center which came with the scanner. The
mark appears only in Windows Explorer folders and has no apparent effect on
the use or viewing of the pictures. I suspect it may be a glitch in the HP
software which I have insalled and reinstalled several times. Still I wonder
why it would affect the explorer view of scans I have done 5 or more years
ago and has no affect on pictures downloaded from one of my cameras.

Thank you for your message.

I have Vista Home Premium as the operating system on my notebook computer. I
have scanned 30 years of family pictures into my computers.

I have scanned thousands of pictures into my Pictures folders. Now when I
open folders and view the contents each picture has a small red dot with a
white exclamation mark on it. Photos I download from my camera do not have
this mark.

It seems to have no effect on slideshows or editing and printing of the
pictures. What does this apparent warning mean?

Did you scan the pictures with a demo version of some software? It sounds
like a watermark that goes away[1] after you pay for the software.

Note that there are other possible answers (as in Nate Grossman's post) -
that's just the one that I've experienced.

Try downloading the free Irfan Viewer and use it to look at the pictures.
If the mark goes away, that would prove that Nate Grossman is right and I
am wrong.

[1] But only in pictures that you scan *after* paying :-(