You say you were able to add photo folders from other local drives to your
photo gallery. I am completely unable to do this and wonder whether your
folders are on the Vista drive or another logical drive. I have all my
photos on a separate data drive, and when I click to add them to the photo
gallery, they are not added; same with video. I have reported this as a
bug, but wonder if there is something else going on. I've noticed a few
others that report this problem. Is is common? I think I could put them in
my Vista Users folder and they would show up, but I don't like mingling my
data with my operating system.

"Puppy Breath" wrote:

> I don't have a lot of time into it either, partly because I can see right
> off the bat that some things aren't working yet. But my experience with what
> I have done is different. For example, there's an Open button on the
> toolbar, and you can also right-click any thumbnail and choose Open With.
> Fix takes you to a simple editor for cropping, brightness, contrast, red
> eye.
>
>
>
> Had no problem adding folders from local drives. But the Network option
> isn't working for me.
>
>
>
> Tags seem to be working OK. Click Not Tagged in the left column, then you
> can add tag words (like keywords) to any picture or group of selected
> pictures. Later you can view all the pictures that contain any given tag
> word just by clicking that tag word in the left column. I'd that that's the
> main point of the gallery. To be able to assign tag words to all types of
> pix and videos, independent of the file type and the metatags that each file
> type offers.
>
>
>
>
>
> "Ed Dixon" <eddixon@mtnsys.com> wrote in message
> news:uoE1xGzaGHA.1196@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> > Since this is referenced a lot, I decided to take a quick look tonight.
> > Maybe I'm missing something, but here are my initial reactions:
> >
> > Open is missing. If you have a photo on your hard drive or network, I
> > can't find a way to open it to look at it. It's probably there, but well
> > hidden. Could not get any network functions to work.
> >
> > Add Folders to Gallery. So then you copy the pic files over the network
> > and place in a folder on the Vista hard drive. I then try to use the Add
> > Folders to Gallery options. It shows me all my hard drives, but seems to
> > be unable to find any folders anywhere. They are all missing in action.
> > Giving up on using this, I type in the folder name and it adds that folder
> > to the Gallery. So now the folder is there, but none of the pics I copied
> > there appear at all. They are also missing in action.
> >
> > My camera is a Nikon, so perhaps MS forgot to build in the ablity to see
> > raw Nikon images (many freeware programs have no troubles at all). Once I
> > convert to jpg, the images at least come up. The basic edit controls are
> > about what is included in the lite versionf of Microsoft Picture It.
> > That's a pretty fair package that has been around for at least 5 years.
> >
> > Thus far there are scads of freeware programs that do all these things
> > better. Since I already have an assortment of other programs (Nikon Edit,
> > Adobe xxx, etc), there is nothing here that looks interesting.
> >
> > Perhaps for someone who has nothing, but even the programs that come with
> > $75 digital cameras are in the same ballpark.
> >
> > Ed

>
>

I'm not the one who said that the first time. But I tried it when I saw your
post and had no problem adding a bunch of photo from an external hard drive
to Photo Gallery. You didn't mention what happens when you try it. Do you
get a message? Are you sure you're looking in the right place after adding
the folder? Try clicking the Untagged category. Chances are they've never
been tagged so they should all how up in there.

Not mingling your data with your OS. Interesting concept that one. Not even
on the same drive, eh?


"Jo" <Jo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8998CB81-9A05-4436-9DBA-7896951F4DE6@microsoft.com...

> You say you were able to add photo folders from other local drives to your
> photo gallery. I am completely unable to do this and wonder whether your
> folders are on the Vista drive or another logical drive. I have all my
> photos on a separate data drive, and when I click to add them to the photo
> gallery, they are not added; same with video. I have reported this as a
> bug, but wonder if there is something else going on. I've noticed a few
> others that report this problem. Is is common? I think I could put them
> in
> my Vista Users folder and they would show up, but I don't like mingling my
> data with my operating system.
>
> "Puppy Breath" wrote:
>

>> I don't have a lot of time into it either, partly because I can see right
>> off the bat that some things aren't working yet. But my experience with
>> what
>> I have done is different. For example, there's an Open button on the
>> toolbar, and you can also right-click any thumbnail and choose Open With.
>> Fix takes you to a simple editor for cropping, brightness, contrast, red
>> eye.
>>
>>
>>
>> Had no problem adding folders from local drives. But the Network option
>> isn't working for me.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tags seem to be working OK. Click Not Tagged in the left column, then you
>> can add tag words (like keywords) to any picture or group of selected
>> pictures. Later you can view all the pictures that contain any given tag
>> word just by clicking that tag word in the left column. I'd that that's
>> the
>> main point of the gallery. To be able to assign tag words to all types of
>> pix and videos, independent of the file type and the metatags that each
>> file
>> type offers.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Ed Dixon" <eddixon@mtnsys.com> wrote in message
>> news:uoE1xGzaGHA.1196@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>> > Since this is referenced a lot, I decided to take a quick look tonight.
>> > Maybe I'm missing something, but here are my initial reactions:
>> >
>> > Open is missing. If you have a photo on your hard drive or network, I
>> > can't find a way to open it to look at it. It's probably there, but
>> > well
>> > hidden. Could not get any network functions to work.
>> >
>> > Add Folders to Gallery. So then you copy the pic files over the
>> > network
>> > and place in a folder on the Vista hard drive. I then try to use the
>> > Add
>> > Folders to Gallery options. It shows me all my hard drives, but seems
>> > to
>> > be unable to find any folders anywhere. They are all missing in
>> > action.
>> > Giving up on using this, I type in the folder name and it adds that
>> > folder
>> > to the Gallery. So now the folder is there, but none of the pics I
>> > copied
>> > there appear at all. They are also missing in action.
>> >
>> > My camera is a Nikon, so perhaps MS forgot to build in the ablity to
>> > see
>> > raw Nikon images (many freeware programs have no troubles at all).
>> > Once I
>> > convert to jpg, the images at least come up. The basic edit controls
>> > are
>> > about what is included in the lite versionf of Microsoft Picture It.
>> > That's a pretty fair package that has been around for at least 5 years.
>> >
>> > Thus far there are scads of freeware programs that do all these things
>> > better. Since I already have an assortment of other programs (Nikon
>> > Edit,
>> > Adobe xxx, etc), there is nothing here that looks interesting.
>> >
>> > Perhaps for someone who has nothing, but even the programs that come
>> > with
>> > $75 digital cameras are in the same ballpark.
>> >
>> > Ed

>>
>>

When I try to add a folder or a picture, absolutely nothing happens. There
is no error message but the folder or picture never is available. I have
looked under ALL the various places, untagged, tagged, all pictures, etc.
When I copy one of my picture folders over to my User folder on my Vista
drive, it does appear in Photo Gallery, but from that location they appear
automatically, I think. The application says in its help file that it can
add folders from anywhere and gives directions for how to do that. That is
what I try to do. When I tried to add a picture, I could see the picture
with the little + sign, and a message "copy to" but nothing was copied. I
believe others have mentioned this problem, as well.

"R.U. Zerious" wrote:

> I'm not the one who said that the first time. But I tried it when I saw your
> post and had no problem adding a bunch of photo from an external hard drive
> to Photo Gallery. You didn't mention what happens when you try it. Do you
> get a message? Are you sure you're looking in the right place after adding
> the folder? Try clicking the Untagged category. Chances are they've never
> been tagged so they should all how up in there.
>
> Not mingling your data with your OS. Interesting concept that one. Not even
> on the same drive, eh?
>
>
> "Jo" <Jo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8998CB81-9A05-4436-9DBA-7896951F4DE6@microsoft.com...

> > You say you were able to add photo folders from other local drives to your
> > photo gallery. I am completely unable to do this and wonder whether your
> > folders are on the Vista drive or another logical drive. I have all my
> > photos on a separate data drive, and when I click to add them to the photo
> > gallery, they are not added; same with video. I have reported this as a
> > bug, but wonder if there is something else going on. I've noticed a few
> > others that report this problem. Is is common? I think I could put them
> > in
> > my Vista Users folder and they would show up, but I don't like mingling my
> > data with my operating system.
> >
> > "Puppy Breath" wrote:
> >

> >> I don't have a lot of time into it either, partly because I can see right
> >> off the bat that some things aren't working yet. But my experience with
> >> what
> >> I have done is different. For example, there's an Open button on the
> >> toolbar, and you can also right-click any thumbnail and choose Open With.
> >> Fix takes you to a simple editor for cropping, brightness, contrast, red
> >> eye.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Had no problem adding folders from local drives. But the Network option
> >> isn't working for me.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Tags seem to be working OK. Click Not Tagged in the left column, then you
> >> can add tag words (like keywords) to any picture or group of selected
> >> pictures. Later you can view all the pictures that contain any given tag
> >> word just by clicking that tag word in the left column. I'd that that's
> >> the
> >> main point of the gallery. To be able to assign tag words to all types of
> >> pix and videos, independent of the file type and the metatags that each
> >> file
> >> type offers.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "Ed Dixon" <eddixon@mtnsys.com> wrote in message
> >> news:uoE1xGzaGHA.1196@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> >> > Since this is referenced a lot, I decided to take a quick look tonight.
> >> > Maybe I'm missing something, but here are my initial reactions:
> >> >
> >> > Open is missing. If you have a photo on your hard drive or network, I
> >> > can't find a way to open it to look at it. It's probably there, but
> >> > well
> >> > hidden. Could not get any network functions to work.
> >> >
> >> > Add Folders to Gallery. So then you copy the pic files over the
> >> > network
> >> > and place in a folder on the Vista hard drive. I then try to use the
> >> > Add
> >> > Folders to Gallery options. It shows me all my hard drives, but seems
> >> > to
> >> > be unable to find any folders anywhere. They are all missing in
> >> > action.
> >> > Giving up on using this, I type in the folder name and it adds that
> >> > folder
> >> > to the Gallery. So now the folder is there, but none of the pics I
> >> > copied
> >> > there appear at all. They are also missing in action.
> >> >
> >> > My camera is a Nikon, so perhaps MS forgot to build in the ablity to
> >> > see
> >> > raw Nikon images (many freeware programs have no troubles at all).
> >> > Once I
> >> > convert to jpg, the images at least come up. The basic edit controls
> >> > are
> >> > about what is included in the lite versionf of Microsoft Picture It.
> >> > That's a pretty fair package that has been around for at least 5 years.
> >> >
> >> > Thus far there are scads of freeware programs that do all these things
> >> > better. Since I already have an assortment of other programs (Nikon
> >> > Edit,
> >> > Adobe xxx, etc), there is nothing here that looks interesting.
> >> >
> >> > Perhaps for someone who has nothing, but even the programs that come
> >> > with
> >> > $75 digital cameras are in the same ballpark.
> >> >
> >> > Ed
> >>
> >>

>

An Update: I don't know what was preventing the pictures from being added,
but it must have been something in regards to the My Pictures folder from my
XP install. I noticed when I moved the various picture folders to the root
of a different drive, I was able to add them. (First moved entire My
Pictures directory to the new drive and it still didn't work.) Then I
thought the folders couldn't be nested and that was the problem; but then I
tried nesting a few and noticed the sub-folders were brought into the
Gallery, too. Finally got all my photos added. Then put a NEW Pictures
folder on the drive and moved all the sub-folders to it, as I didn't want all
the pictures to be in the root of the drive. Lo and behold, they all were
able to be imported into the Gallery.

I'm learning a lot about Vista, but hope it isn't this hard to upgrade when
the final version comes out.

"R.U. Zerious" wrote:

> I'm not the one who said that the first time. But I tried it when I saw your
> post and had no problem adding a bunch of photo from an external hard drive
> to Photo Gallery. You didn't mention what happens when you try it. Do you
> get a message? Are you sure you're looking in the right place after adding
> the folder? Try clicking the Untagged category. Chances are they've never
> been tagged so they should all how up in there.
>
> Not mingling your data with your OS. Interesting concept that one. Not even
> on the same drive, eh?
>
>
> "Jo" <Jo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8998CB81-9A05-4436-9DBA-7896951F4DE6@microsoft.com...

> > You say you were able to add photo folders from other local drives to your
> > photo gallery. I am completely unable to do this and wonder whether your
> > folders are on the Vista drive or another logical drive. I have all my
> > photos on a separate data drive, and when I click to add them to the photo
> > gallery, they are not added; same with video. I have reported this as a
> > bug, but wonder if there is something else going on. I've noticed a few
> > others that report this problem. Is is common? I think I could put them
> > in
> > my Vista Users folder and they would show up, but I don't like mingling my
> > data with my operating system.
> >
> > "Puppy Breath" wrote:
> >

> >> I don't have a lot of time into it either, partly because I can see right
> >> off the bat that some things aren't working yet. But my experience with
> >> what
> >> I have done is different. For example, there's an Open button on the
> >> toolbar, and you can also right-click any thumbnail and choose Open With.
> >> Fix takes you to a simple editor for cropping, brightness, contrast, red
> >> eye.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Had no problem adding folders from local drives. But the Network option
> >> isn't working for me.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Tags seem to be working OK. Click Not Tagged in the left column, then you
> >> can add tag words (like keywords) to any picture or group of selected
> >> pictures. Later you can view all the pictures that contain any given tag
> >> word just by clicking that tag word in the left column. I'd that that's
> >> the
> >> main point of the gallery. To be able to assign tag words to all types of
> >> pix and videos, independent of the file type and the metatags that each
> >> file
> >> type offers.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "Ed Dixon" <eddixon@mtnsys.com> wrote in message
> >> news:uoE1xGzaGHA.1196@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> >> > Since this is referenced a lot, I decided to take a quick look tonight.
> >> > Maybe I'm missing something, but here are my initial reactions:
> >> >
> >> > Open is missing. If you have a photo on your hard drive or network, I
> >> > can't find a way to open it to look at it. It's probably there, but
> >> > well
> >> > hidden. Could not get any network functions to work.
> >> >
> >> > Add Folders to Gallery. So then you copy the pic files over the
> >> > network
> >> > and place in a folder on the Vista hard drive. I then try to use the
> >> > Add
> >> > Folders to Gallery options. It shows me all my hard drives, but seems
> >> > to
> >> > be unable to find any folders anywhere. They are all missing in
> >> > action.
> >> > Giving up on using this, I type in the folder name and it adds that
> >> > folder
> >> > to the Gallery. So now the folder is there, but none of the pics I
> >> > copied
> >> > there appear at all. They are also missing in action.
> >> >
> >> > My camera is a Nikon, so perhaps MS forgot to build in the ablity to
> >> > see
> >> > raw Nikon images (many freeware programs have no troubles at all).
> >> > Once I
> >> > convert to jpg, the images at least come up. The basic edit controls
> >> > are
> >> > about what is included in the lite versionf of Microsoft Picture It.
> >> > That's a pretty fair package that has been around for at least 5 years.
> >> >
> >> > Thus far there are scads of freeware programs that do all these things
> >> > better. Since I already have an assortment of other programs (Nikon
> >> > Edit,
> >> > Adobe xxx, etc), there is nothing here that looks interesting.
> >> >
> >> > Perhaps for someone who has nothing, but even the programs that come
> >> > with
> >> > $75 digital cameras are in the same ballpark.
> >> >
> >> > Ed
> >>
> >>

>

I need some serious help. I have windows XP professional and I recently
downloaded Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition. Some how through the
installation process I had the option of installing Micrsoft SQL server 2005.
I am still fairly new to all this, so now I have an automatic installation
process during windows log on of Photo Gallery which as you already is part
of the beta version of Vista (Longhorn). I just don't remembering
downloading the new OS or any part of it?