Freeing up memory??

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Hi, a friend has been copying pix from his canon dgi cam straight to disc
useing my pc to do so and has used up a lot of my memory. IS THERE ANYWAY
PLEASE that I can find these pix on my hard drive and free up the space again.
 
Most pictures will exist as .Jpg files. Do a "Full" system search for that
file extension. Look at the column heading "In Folder", to determine
which destination your friend used to copy his pictures. Once you find
the content you can either delete directly from Search or use Explorer.
Search string would be *.jpg
 
ANDY said:
Hi, a friend has been copying pix from his canon dgi cam straight to disc
useing my pc to do so and has used up a lot of my memory. IS THERE ANYWAY
PLEASE that I can find these pix on my hard drive and free up the space
again.

First of all, Hard Disk space is not memory. Memory in a computer system is
called RAM. What your fried has done is filled you storage space (hard disk
space) with photos.

Find any one of the photos he put on your computer, and note what it's
extension is (.jpg, .tif...)
and then use search to find all files with that extension. The carefully go
through the list and delete the ones you do not want. Be careful when doing
this, as the image on your desktop is a jpg file and if you erase it, you'll
no longer be able to display it on your desktop.

Bobby
 
Hi, thanx all. My understanding of how a pc works is limited but am trying
all as u suggest, thanx. The problem I'm having is......every week I do a
scan disk and defrag. I've noticed that once defraged since a few weeks ago I
HAVE GONE from over 70% free space down to only under 40%....I don't run any
major software at the moment BUTDO use the internet on ADSL most days BUT
not to any great extent. The only connection I can c is this copying Dig pix
straight to disc...Am I right or is there sumthing else going on..cheers Andy
 

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