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Originally Posted by NightWing
I learned of a free photo software named Picasa and I downloaded it. It is much simpler to use and I like it...as much as I have fooled with it. The only problem is every time I open an email photo attachment, the import photo tray still has 6 old pics that I have deleted many times. They were in the Corel software and I have emptied every folder and deleted every picture from Corel, and then I took Corel out of my start menu. Somehow, those 6 pics (of someone's half-starved kid at a birthday party) keep showing up.
OK, any advice would be great and well received.
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Hmmm not too sure if I can help as I don't speak "Picasa" (PSP is my native photo language
) but let me offer a tidbit or 2. First let me see if I understand the problem. You go to open pictures in Picasa and you get these 6 unwanted pictures, ones you think you've previously deleted. According to
this, Picasa looks in certain folders for any and all pics stored therein (also see
this). So I'm guessing the pics are still on your hard drive some place and Picasa is looking there. First guess is that the unwanted pics are in your Recycle Bin folder and for some odd reason, Picassa is looking there. Click on your Recycle Bin and see if they're there. If so, empty the Recycle Bin. Since that's too easy to be likely, next I'd search the hard drive using Window's search mechanism (assuming you have XP, click on Start, Search, For Files or Folders, ...) for one of the pics. Use only the first part of the name, leave empty the extension. For example search for "stupid_pic" rather than "stupid_pic_1.jpg". You may be seeing some leftover thumbnails rather than the actual pictures. See where it (whatever it is) shows up. Go to that folder and exterminate the pest and his 5 friends ! Then empty the Recyle Bin for good measure. Lastly you could follow
these instructions as well.
Alternately I could understand your problem to be that the e-mail program you use is showing these 6 unwanted pictures every time you go to detach/download a new picture from an e-mail. In that case it's almost certain to be thumbnails stored by the e-mail program someplace. Perhaps the above search will find them but they could easily be stored in some temporary cache someplace under nonsensical file names. Not sure how to empty that cache as this will depend on what program you use. Good luck
