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by **pete byer** » Mon, 26 May 2003 05:44:41

I am storing my jpeg photo files in a directory that is
not in "my documents". For some reason the file names of
about 25% of my photo files are now prefexed with "copy
of, old file name". Since the file names have been changed
the photo viewer that I am using can no longer find these
files. Any idea as to what caused these to become copies.
I download my photos directly into a directory named
C:\photo which has about 20 sub-directories.
thanks for any help, pete

by **Box13** » Mon, 26 May 2003 08:13:13

In my experience this happens when you copy a file and them paste it back
into the same directory. Since two files can't have the same filename
Windows creates a new filename by adding "Copy of." I don't know what
caused this to happen, but maybe some program is creating copies of the
files. This could happen after you did some photo-processing on a file and
in the process changed it.

Quote:> I am storing my jpeg photo files in a directory that is
> not in "my documents". For some reason the file names of
> about 25% of my photo files are now prefexed with "copy
> of, old file name". Since the file names have been changed
> the photo viewer that I am using can no longer find these
> files. Any idea as to what caused these to become copies.
> I download my photos directly into a directory named
> C:\photo which has about 20 sub-directories.
> thanks for any help, pete

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file name changes to "copy of old file name"

file name changes to "copy of old file name"

file name changes to "copy of old file name"