> > I've been saving my pictures on both the old and new computer. The old one has been hidding them and the new one has a picture program that won't let me brouse in to attach a picture to email or send it to a web page.
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> > But today, I found out where the old rig is hidding them. I was roaming around in Word and found a document that had the right date for the last set of pictures. So I clicked on one of them and all I got was page after page of computer gibberish. Does that mean the pictures are not there, or is there some way I can bring them up in Adobe so they look like pictures?
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> By "computer gibberish" do you mean "lots of random characters, including all manner of accented chracters"? If so, I know what's going on; since you're using Word, which is used to edit files containing text, it thinks the file you're trying to view is text, rather than a picture. Word therefore interprets the ones and zeros of the image file as representing letters, but since they represent colors rather than letters, the letters that Word thinks it sees in these ones and zeros are gibberish. (There are 24 ones and zeros per color, and 8 per letter; Word assumes the first 8 ones and zeros represent one letter, such as "ÿ"; the next 8 represent another, such as "T"; and the last 8 represent another, such as "[".) The solution, of course, is to use a program such as Adobe, which is designed to view images, instead of Word, which is designed to view text. To view it in Adobe, simply make a note of what directory you found it in when you were using Word, and look for that directory in Adobe, and open it there.
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> Of course, if by "computer gibberish" you mean that there appear to actually be some computer-related words in there, there's probably been an error and the "gibberish" is attempting to alert you to the error. Maybe post an excerpt if that's the case?
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> > This new 'puter uses "Picture it!" I can now work with the pictures a little bit now, but I can't get them out over the net. Sometimes I can print one. Am I missing a step?
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> From what you've said, I'm guessing you're trying to upload images using Picture It; this makes me curious -- does Adobe have uploading capabilities, and were you using Adobe to upload pictures with the old computer? If so, my guess is the people who made Picture It just didn't include a way to upload files with it, which wouldn't be surprising since I don't know of any graphics programs that include such a feature. Try using an FTP program to upload files from that computer. (Some ISPs, such as AOL, offer FTP capabilities, and there are other non-ISP FTP programs out there, though I don't know enough about them to recommend anything; some image-hosting websites, including the one I use, also allow you to upload files using a form on the website itself).
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> Of course, my guess could be completely wrong...
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> > I have another totally unrelated computer problem. Where can I find the "trash" button on my email? I use Outlook Express and someone told me that if you click "trash" instead of "delete" you don't ever get that same spam again. I get the same ones over and over.
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> > All suggestions appreciated.
> > Howard
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> I don't have much experience with the email feature of Outlook or Outlook Express, so I can't say much about it. That said, doing a search on Outlook Express's help file for "trash" returns no results, so I'm inclined to agree with Ciaran that there isn't one, and that you need to stop getting computer advice from the person you mentioned... ;-)
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> Lucky "returning to the thing about interpreting image files as text... I have actually considered hiding messages in image files in this manner, by manipulating the text that shows up when you view the image file in Word or Notepad." Wizard

I'm running off hard copies of these posts, and will study them when I get stuck down in the country with no internet service and no cable TV.

I am beginning make some sense out of this picture program, but very slowly.

The computer gibberish I mentioned is just random characters. It contains no words, so my guess is that its just Word trying to read something meant for Adobe. But I don't understand how it got into Word in the first place.

The way I upload from Adobe is to brouse in there from a website or my email program and just click on what I want. I've uploaded pictures to eBay, Cushmangroup, and tons of email without a problem, but on this new computer, it seldom works. When it does, it usually sends out billboards.

Strangely, I can now burn CD's with the new program, and they come out fine.
Howard