If she cannot delete them any other way, would it be possible to look them up in "My Computer" and delete them from there? JD ---------- | From: John Ballard <jballard@surfside.net> | To: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com | Subject: Re: [FO] Fwd: OT Scanner Problem | Date: Friday, July 06, 2001 9:14 PM | | A few pictures at that absurdly high resolution (dots/inch) is probably | loading her hard disk with hundreds and hundreds of megabites. She will have | to settle for something like 300 to 700 dots/inch to avoid her problem. (It | is a compromise.) A new, great big, hard disk will help. | | Also changing from bmp to jpg format will help a lot. What she has now can | be reduced in size with a graphics program. I do not mean the size of the | picture in inches, but rather the size in dots to match her printer, or even | a newer one. | John | Ballard | | - Original Message ----- | From: "Linda Scheimann" <linda514@ivillage.com> | To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> | Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 3:48 PM | Subject: [FO] Fwd: OT Scanner Problem | | | > Could someone on the list please direct me to resources concerning scanner | and memory problems? This message is from a relative who is working with me | to preserve a 100 year old photograph album. She was advised to make a 2400 | dpi scan of each picture and save to CD. Her graphics program required her | to save to hard drive before transferring to removable medium. | > | > After a couple days she is experiencing lockups. Her hard drive seems to | be full, but she is unable to delete as described below, and she is also | locking up on most internet site loads, leading her to believe that she has | memory problems as well. She has run scandisk and also defragged. I am | trying to help her. | > | > Thanks, | > | > Linda Scheimann | > | > | > ------- Start of forwarded message ------- | > | > > I really haven't been on the computer much this week, but I still have | > > problems. When I started trying to save some of the other pictures, it | > > wouldn't let me and said my disk was full. I checked my hard drive and | > > sure enough, it had gone from approximately 35%-40% full to FULL. I | > > don't know what happened. It can't be the pictures. I went in and | > > tried to delete some of the ones that I'd already saved to disk and it | > > won't even let me do that. I keep getting a message that tells me to | > > check to see if the file is in use (it isn't) or else the problem might | > > be that the disk is full or that it is write-protected. None of those | > > things would be accurate, so I don't know unless it's so full that the | > > trash bin doesn't work. I've tried "delete" and I've tried dragging. | > > Sometimes the dragging works. | > | > ------- End of forwarded message ------- | > | > _________________________________________________________________ | > iVillage.com: Solutions for Your Life | > Check out the most exciting women's community on the Web | > http://www.ivillage.com | > | > | > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== | > GETTING THE MOST OUT OF FAMILY ORIGINS by Bruce Buzbee - FO DEMO | > http://formalsoft.com NO WEB ACCESS? Write to FormalSoft@aol.com for | ordering information. | > | > ============================== | > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate | > your heritage! | > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog | > | | | ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== | Very basic Windows: http://www.angelfire.com/oh2/created4/COMPUTERBASICS.html | basic HTML: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/ | | ============================== | Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate | your heritage! | http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog |