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PhuckersGodlike

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Peanut wrote:

Phuckers wrote:

i rebooted my laptop and lost all my pictures on the memory how do i recover them?

It depends on what you mean by memory? If you mean they were stored on your hard drive then that's something totally different to "memory". Anything actually in memory when you reboot is lost.

If the images are on your hard drive and disappeared after a reboot then that's something else entirely. I'm going with the latter.

To answer this effectively a bit of info is required. When you say "lost", what do you actually mean? Were they in a specific folder and now the folder is empty, or the folder has disappeared. Also what application were you using to see the list of images and is that what is telling you that they are no longer there?

When you rebooted what were you doing, ie what applications were open and was it a clean boot, i.e. did the computer shut itself down or did it hang and you switched off?

ha ha good lord i didnt realise my lameman's language on computer can be so technical,i had a problem with the laptop couldnt save any pictures because it had an error,so the manufacturers adviced me to restore thus i lost every file

Tan--KinkyGodlike

Joined:: 27 Nov 2007
Posts:: 5257
Location:: Tartlepool

thicko question - yes another one

Im currently renting out a caravan for a family member as they are on holiday and have given me permission to downprice weeks to get some money in, Ive put an auction on that well known place but - i have all the literature in email in word documents i want to take the pics off the word document and upload them on thier own (its laid out in brochure form and i dont have the pics on thier own) but cant seem to manage to work out how
when i right click the image there is no save to or anything like that and copy and paste wont work

Is there a way and if so how please!
using vista and firefox
thanks

CubesSite Moderator

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Phuckers wrote:

i rebooted my laptop and lost all my pictures on the memory how do i recover them?

I know this might sound really obvious, but can you clarify what you mean by "rebooted"? It's very common for people to get the terminology mixed up.

Do you mean you switched it off and back on again?
Or do you mean you re-installed the operating system/reset back to factory settings?

The first should have no effect on stored data, but the latter would most likely splat anything you had saved.

In edit: just saw your other post so just ignore me.

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kittysin wrote:

Why does my scrolly mouse thing stop scrolling?

It does everything else, but periodically the scrolly wheely thing just stops working. How come?

Hope this is techy enough for this thread

Is it a rubber wheely thing? I had one of those that did the same thing. When it got warm the rubber sleeve can expand and starts to slip on the plastic wheel underneath. You can sometimes take it apart and give it a clean, but it's likely to start playing up again.

kittysinA slave to my art

Joined:: 7 Mar 2006
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Nope, the scrolly mousy thing is a hard plastic thing. You can feel it sort of ratcheting as it moves so I'm sure its not just slipping. It rights itself when I reboot, but I'd like to avoid having to do that by figuring out why it does it.

After a couple of years of working directly with IT stuff from a non-techie background though, I'm learning that there are no easy answers and often reboot is the only answer for some of these quaint little foibles.

Misskitty_2008Godlike

Joined:: 22 May 2008
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I use Irfanview as my default picture viewer, and have been trying to download a picture of me wearing a hat for my avatar, but having no luck.. it says "do not support file" yet when I uploaded one of my boob it worked!

Any ideas? It's 54.4KB and 640x480 .. would appreciate any help.. I have a feeling I might have to disable Irfanview...

Thanks all!!!

StormwalkerGodlike

Joined:: 15 Mar 2006
Posts:: 1976
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A funny thing has happened to a couple of my word docs.
They appear as a faint ghost image in the list of docs, the first word of the title is starting with a small squiggle followed by a $ sign and although they are word docs, when I try and open them I'm told to "select the encoding that makes your document readable" if I open the doc all I get is my name and a bunch of small square boxes.

any ideas?

northwest-cplGodlike

Joined:: 1 Dec 2003
Posts:: 1930
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TanKinky wrote:

thicko question - yes another one

Im currently renting out a caravan for a family member as they are on holiday and have given me permission to downprice weeks to get some money in, Ive put an auction on that well known place but - i have all the literature in email in word documents i want to take the pics off the word document and upload them on thier own (its laid out in brochure form and i dont have the pics on thier own) but cant seem to manage to work out how
when i right click the image there is no save to or anything like that and copy and paste wont work

Is there a way and if so how please!
using vista and firefox
thanks

Do a printscreen, paste the image into a picture editing programme - irfanview is good and free, crop to size and save as a jpg.

PeanutGodlike

Joined:: 3 Mar 2005
Posts:: 2891
Location:: The great state of
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kittysin wrote:

Why does my scrolly mouse thing stop scrolling?

It does everything else, but periodically the scrolly wheely thing just stops working. How come?

Hope this is techy enough for this thread

You didn't say what make of mouse it was or if it was USB or PS2, but it sounds like it may possibly be a driver issue if it clears up with a reboot. It could also possibly be an electro-mechanical problem with the mouse itself. The mouse gets its power from the computer so doing a reboot means you are also rebooting the mouse so to speak.

PeanutGodlike

Joined:: 3 Mar 2005
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Phuckers wrote:

Peanut wrote:

Phuckers wrote:

i rebooted my laptop and lost all my pictures on the memory how do i recover them?

It depends on what you mean by memory? If you mean they were stored on your hard drive then that's something totally different to "memory". Anything actually in memory when you reboot is lost.

If the images are on your hard drive and disappeared after a reboot then that's something else entirely. I'm going with the latter.

To answer this effectively a bit of info is required. When you say "lost", what do you actually mean? Were they in a specific folder and now the folder is empty, or the folder has disappeared. Also what application were you using to see the list of images and is that what is telling you that they are no longer there?

When you rebooted what were you doing, ie what applications were open and was it a clean boot, i.e. did the computer shut itself down or did it hang and you switched off?

ha ha good lord i didnt realise my lameman's language on computer can be so technical,i had a problem with the laptop couldnt save any pictures because it had an error,so the manufacturers adviced me to restore thus i lost every file

Ah, now that sounds like a different ballgame altogether. Now there are two different sorts of restores with windows. There's a system restore point which sort of takes the operating back in time to whichever restore point you select. This only affects executable programs and their settings.

The second system restore is the one I think you've done. If this is the case then I'm afraid you've lost everything (unless you are prepared to pay for a professional data retrieval service).

The system restore I think you've done is when you take the system right back to the original factory settings, ie it nukes everything on the hard drive and reinstalls a brand new operating system installation.

From the sounds of it you've selected option B and it's trashed everything, including your photos. I know this is too late, but should this happen again, always backup any data you want to keep before doing anything like this. Sorry, but I think the technical term on this issue is 'you're boned'!

PeanutGodlike

Joined:: 3 Mar 2005
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Misskitty_2008 wrote:

I use Irfanview as my default picture viewer, and have been trying to download a picture of me wearing a hat for my avatar, but having no luck.. it says "do not support file" yet when I uploaded one of my boob it worked!

Any ideas? It's 54.4KB and 640x480 .. would appreciate any help.. I have a feeling I might have to disable Irfanview...

Thanks all!!!

I'm presuming you mean "upload" rather than download, ie you want to send the image from your computer to SH's server?

If this is the case then you have to be very specific in how you save the file. It can only be a gif file or a non-progressive jpg file. It can't be a png file.

The code dealing with the upload is most likely using either what's called GD2 or ImageMagick to process the uploaded file so it can add the watermark amongst other things. As such the possible image format seems to be very strictly limited so as to aid the necessary coding.

In the Irfanview save dialogue (not the "save as") make sure that the jpg option (over to the right) "save as progressive JPG" is unticked.

PeanutGodlike

Joined:: 3 Mar 2005
Posts:: 2891
Location:: The great state of
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Stormwalker wrote:

A funny thing has happened to a couple of my word docs.
They appear as a faint ghost image in the list of docs, the first word of the title is starting with a small squiggle followed by a $ sign and although they are word docs, when I try and open them I'm told to "select the encoding that makes your document readable" if I open the doc all I get is my name and a bunch of small square boxes.

any ideas?

Files that show as greyed out in Windows Explorer are usually hidden files that are being displayed when you have the options set to "show hidden files".

Also, files that start with a tilde (~) and some other random non-alphanumeric character are usually temp files that the application opens as a temporary backup. This is how the restore a document when you've crashed works.

The other possibility is that you are trying to open the 'lock' file, which is what's called a 'semaphore' file that when it exists tells any other users who try to edit the document to which the semaphore file relates that the file is already open and can't be edited. Normally these files have a different extension to .doc.

PeanutGodlike

Joined:: 3 Mar 2005
Posts:: 2891
Location:: The great state of
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cu3b4ll wrote:

Phuckers wrote:

i rebooted my laptop and lost all my pictures on the memory how do i recover them?

I know this might sound really obvious, but can you clarify what you mean by "rebooted"? It's very common for people to get the terminology mixed up.

Do you mean you switched it off and back on again?
Or do you mean you re-installed the operating system/reset back to factory settings?

The first should have no effect on stored data, but the latter would most likely splat anything you had saved.

In edit: just saw your other post so just ignore me.

No need to ignore you, what you said seems to be the case the way I read Phucker's follow-up post.

PeanutGodlike

Joined:: 3 Mar 2005
Posts:: 2891
Location:: The great state of
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northwest-cpl wrote:

TanKinky wrote:

thicko question - yes another one

Im currently renting out a caravan for a family member as they are on holiday and have given me permission to downprice weeks to get some money in, Ive put an auction on that well known place but - i have all the literature in email in word documents i want to take the pics off the word document and upload them on thier own (its laid out in brochure form and i dont have the pics on thier own) but cant seem to manage to work out how
when i right click the image there is no save to or anything like that and copy and paste wont work

Is there a way and if so how please!
using vista and firefox
thanks

Do a printscreen, paste the image into a picture editing programme - irfanview is good and free, crop to size and save as a jpg.

Alternatively have you tried right-clicking the image in the document, choosing "copy" then pasting it into Irfanview. No need to do any cropping then.

Tan--KinkyGodlike

Joined:: 27 Nov 2007
Posts:: 5257
Location:: Tartlepool

Peanut wrote:

northwest-cpl wrote:

TanKinky wrote:

thicko question - yes another one

Im currently renting out a caravan for a family member as they are on holiday and have given me permission to downprice weeks to get some money in, Ive put an auction on that well known place but - i have all the literature in email in word documents i want to take the pics off the word document and upload them on thier own (its laid out in brochure form and i dont have the pics on thier own) but cant seem to manage to work out how
when i right click the image there is no save to or anything like that and copy and paste wont work

Is there a way and if so how please!
using vista and firefox
thanks

Do a printscreen, paste the image into a picture editing programme - irfanview is good and free, crop to size and save as a jpg.

Alternatively have you tried right-clicking the image in the document, choosing "copy" then pasting it into Irfanview. No need to do any cropping then.

Thanks very much sorted

StormwalkerGodlike

Joined:: 15 Mar 2006
Posts:: 1976
Location:: -

Peanut wrote:

Stormwalker wrote:

A funny thing has happened to a couple of my word docs.
They appear as a faint ghost image in the list of docs, the first word of the title is starting with a small squiggle followed by a $ sign and although they are word docs, when I try and open them I'm told to "select the encoding that makes your document readable" if I open the doc all I get is my name and a bunch of small square boxes.

any ideas?

Files that show as greyed out in Windows Explorer are usually hidden files that are being displayed when you have the options set to "show hidden files".

Also, files that start with a tilde (~) and some other random non-alphanumeric character are usually temp files that the application opens as a temporary backup. This is how the restore a document when you've crashed works.

The other possibility is that you are trying to open the 'lock' file, which is what's called a 'semaphore' file that when it exists tells any other users who try to edit the document to which the semaphore file relates that the file is already open and can't be edited. Normally these files have a different extension to .doc.

That's the chap....

Now, as if talking to a Bear of very little brain, how do I get them back ?

PeanutGodlike

Joined:: 3 Mar 2005
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Stormwalker wrote:

Now, as if talking to a Bear of very little brain, how do I get them back ?

Ah, now therein lies the question, which unfortunately depends on which version of Word you are using, which version of Word created the document and what format it's in.

I know how to do it in Office 2007, but I've never had to do it in previous versions so I can't be of too much help. What I do recommend is using the help facility in Word (hit F1) and search for either "recover" or "recover document". This should give you a step by step on how to do it.

StormwalkerGodlike

Joined:: 15 Mar 2006
Posts:: 1976
Location:: -

Peanut wrote:

Stormwalker wrote:

Now, as if talking to a Bear of very little brain, how do I get them back ?

Ah, now therein lies the question, which unfortunately depends on which version of Word you are using, which version of Word created the document and what format it's in.

I know how to do it in Office 2007, but I've never had to do it in previous versions so I can't be of too much help. What I do recommend is using the help facility in Word (hit F1) and search for either "recover" or "recover document". This should give you a step by step on how to do it.

Thank you

I'll bend my not inconsiderable intelect to the problem....and get Fire to do it.

twos_companyGodlike

Joined:: 21 May 2003
Posts:: 2291
Location:: e.london

been having serious pc problems....
sort of solved it but formatting hd, but we`re having trouble finding the sound driver..the cards a Trust 5115.1 sound expert digital surround ....the trust site every time we try all we gets i.e has encountered a problem and needs to close...anyone know any good driver download sites? that are not too complicated??
2`s xxx

PeanutGodlike

Joined:: 3 Mar 2005
Posts:: 2891
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twos_company wrote:

been having serious pc problems....
sort of solved it but formatting hd, but we`re having trouble finding the sound driver..the cards a Trust 5115.1 sound expert digital surround ....the trust site every time we try all we gets i.e has encountered a problem and needs to close...anyone know any good driver download sites? that are not too complicated??
2`s xxx

This link should do you...
http://www.driverslab.com/drivers/Sound_Card/Trust/11/114.html

And of course, don't forget to install Firefox too, "you know it makes sense"

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