Windows 7 Trying to figure out what folder my pictures are really in

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I am running windows 7 on a HP Pavillion Elite m9040n PC. My first drive is saying it is full. With all of these folders (my pictures) showing up with pictures in them does that mean I have several duplicates on my hard drive? Are all of these picture icons in the items folders really pictures or icons? If they are just icons where's the actually picture folder so I can move the link to my second partition? Should some of those be eliminated? When I start my computer I have two options to enter at startup. The first one is the family icon on the screen in which it loges into automatically at startup. Or I can click the RICK icon and log into as an administrator. The * will represent a triangle at a 45 degree angle pointing down to the right from the folder.

*Favorite
Recently changed
Public
Desktop
Downloads
Recent Places
Recorded TV
*desktop
*libraries
*documents
*music
*pictures
*my pictures with 632 items (Looks like folders with pictures in them
Homegroup
*family
*my pictures with 632 item folders
*computer
*users
*family
*my pictures with 632 item folders
*rick
*my pictures with 572 (?) items in folders "I have to log in as an administrator to do anything with these pictures"
>Factory_Image "D"
>HP Pavilion "E"
>DVD RW Drive "F"
>Removable Disk "G"
"H"
"I"
"J"
"K"
*network
*RICK-PC
*users
*family
*my pictures with 632 items in folder
*RICK
*my pictures with 572 items in folder
Recycle Bin
Is this kind of screwed up? Am I wasting a lot of hard drive space? Can you tell mehow to figure out where my original files are? Can some of those folders be aliminated?

Thanks

 
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Hi

Personally I don't let it just default and save my photos where ever it wants to.

I created a folder, D:\Photography. (I have two internal hard drives, hence D).
Under this I place sub folders for each category, i.e. Dog Pictures, People, Vintage Cars, Race Photos etc.

It makes it a lot easier to keep track of where things are and what you have.

If you want to take the time to reorganize your images you will find out what you have duplicates for.

Then I recommend that you back them all up either to a external hard drive or DVDs.
Having them on only one drive is asking for trouble, sooner or later something is going to go wrong and you will lose data.

Mike
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