I have been taking digital photographs since 2003 and I now have a very large collection on my hard drive, which has been successfully transferred from laptop to laptop as I have replaced them. I have just bought a new laptop and I have transferred my photos to It. My previous and current laptops run Windows 8.1.
This time there seems to be a problem. While the majority of the photos I can view, there are some that I can only see the filename not the picture. When I go into the properties of a photo that won’t display and then go to permissions it says it is unable to display the current owner. I click on change and a dialogue box comes up headed Select User Or Group. I enter the object name to select (in this case Administrator), then click check name, and it inserts my full administrator name. I click on save and exit, but when I go back I find that it has reverted to its original blank state. In permissions all principals have full control. How do I view these photos?
Meanwhile, Dropbox has been diligently copying my photos into itself, and I can view all my photos… Aha I thought, this could be my salvation. I just need to move or copy the photos in Dropbox onto my hard drive. Now I would have thought that this would be standard practice, but it appears I am wrong. There is nothing, as far as I can see, in Dropbox’s help that tells you how to move or copy files to outside Dropbox. So then I googled the problem. I have discovered that there seem to be two variations of Dropbox: one that appears in your web browser, and one that appears in Windows Explorer. No one seems to know how to move or copy photos out of the web browser but apparently it is possible to do it in Explorer. But – although there is a photos folder, none of my photos are in it. Why that is, I have absolutely no idea. I don’t understand what the difference is between the two forms of Dropbox
Can anyone enlighten me about these two problems?