My music and photo files are scattered around over two hard drives and 4 partitions. How can I train WMP and my Kodak digital camera software to put these in a folder on a drive of MY choosing? It becomes problematic when I need to print out some pictures and can't find the D___ things! Music is even worse. Any help will truly be appreciated. Bob A positive attitude won't solve all your problems, but it will annoy just enough people to be worth the effort.

The first time you use a device a default path will show. If that path isn't where you want the files, then change it at that time. From then on that program will use your path as the default. I suggest that you either use one of the default folders in My Documents or create on of your own, still in My documents. The reason being, My Documents is constantly changing and as such should be backed up often. Doing this will better protect your files.

Have you tried free Picasa 2? A great photo program that keeps everything where you can find it (you can choose where to send the pics), plus it has some pretty good features too. Just a thought. Some HELP in posting on Cnet plus free progs and instructions Glad to Help!

BTW To find your files you can do a search by going to start> search> files or folders. Enter *.and then the file extension, like jpg or mp3. *.mp3 Search all drives or one, your choice. Then you can move the files to the new folder. When completely done you may want to defrag your drives.

To add a little to OtheHill's suggestion, create a folder where you want to store the files. Then you can do multiple file searches in one shot. Just seperate the search criteria with a comma. ie; Once in the search function and you're entering the filenames to search for: Example *.mpg,*.mpeg,*.mp3,*.wav,*.jpg,*.etc Once you get the results, simply cut and paste right from the search results window. It's a good day when you learn something

If these files you have are really important to you then you should never keep them on the same partition which holds your operating system. The reason for this because if you have a major crash of your operating system and you have to reinstall it, then you have lost the files. Always keep important file on a non operating partition, this way if the operating system crashes you files are safe. If you want to use "My Documents" to keep your files you can move the folder off of c-drive and onto a different partition. It also makes it easier to backup you files. Harddrive are prone to fail so backup any files you deem important, otherwise they are gone for good if the drive fails. Do follow the other peoples advise about changing the path to store the files. Never say Never Romeo Void Firefox 2.0.0.6 A Safer Browser Thunderbird 1.5.0.12

tiyogi has spoken the truth. This is the reason why all my PCs have partitions for regular backup. i_Xp/VistaUser