Using WinZip to compress Digital Photos for Email Attachements |
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| The files that are created on the disk when pictures are taken on the Mavica camera will look like one of the 2 pictures to the right when it is viewed in the computer. Depending on if your computer is set to show hidden files or not. |
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(Click on the pictures to enlarge) |
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| Start by opening WinZip.
Push the "Start" button and choose WinZip icon. (Figure 1) or Choose the WinZip icon from your desktop. (Figure 2). (There are usually several ways of doing something in the Windows environment. They are all correct, as long as you get the same results.) |
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| We use the shareware installation, just hit the button "I Agree". The button that says "I Agree" moves back and forth between the left and center buttons. They do that to make it confusing. |
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| Choose "New", to create a new archive |
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| You will see the "New Archive" window. |
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| Use the drop-down box at the top of the "New Archive"
window to choose the "Desktop" from the drop down
menu. |
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| Then, in the "File name:" box, name the
new archive you are creating and choose
"OK". (I chose "pictures" in the example, but, anything will work.) (Don't use "/ \ * . # $ % & ^ @ + =" characters in your file names. Spaces, underlines and hyphens are o.k. in file names.) |
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| Choose "Add" from the tool bar |
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| Insert the floppy disk that contains the photos.
Choose the "3 1/2" Floppy (A:) from the drop down menu. (This is where the Mavica's pictures are located) |
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| Choose "Add with wildcards", this chooses all the files on the floppy disk to add to your new archive. |
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| After the file is completed compressing the window will look like this. |
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| WinZip will have created a file icon on your desktop with the name of the file archive that you typed in above. This is the file that has your pictures in it. This is the file that you will email to others that may be needing your pictures. |
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| OMS Photo Upload Computer | ||
| Janie Appleton (Personnel) | ||
** - WinZip is a utility that can package many files into a single file. It can also take a single large file too large for a single floppy disk and compress it to make it fit. |
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