Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 - Find a Photo, View in Explorer

SUMMARY: Need to find the original location on your hard drive of a photo viewed in Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011?

If you have Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 monitoring multiple folders for photos, you might need to find a file's original location via Windows Explorer. This way you can copy (backup) photos to a different location or removable storage, rename a photo's filename, or perform other file manipulation tasks.

Luckily, finding this information is easy. From the gallery, just right-click a photo and choose "Open file location" as seen in the below screenshot:

Access a photo in Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 via its original file location in Windows Explorer

This tip was written regarding Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 Build 15.4.3502.922 running on a Windows Vista system. Features, information, and screenshots for other versions / operating systems may vary.

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Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 - Remove EXIF Tags When Publishing to Facebook, Flickr

SUMMARY: Remove file metadata such as EXIF tags when uploading photos and videos to Facebook, Flickr, Windows Live, or other services via Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011.

When uploading photos via Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 to "the cloud", such as to Facebook, Flickr, or Windows Live, files may have embedded hidden metadata. These details may include the camera manufacturer, snapshot parameters such as the exposure time, or GPS location information. An example is the JPEG format, which may contain EXIF or other metadata.

If you'd rather this information not be published, you may want to use external software to manually remove the information from your files. Or, keep this information in your file copies, but have Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 remove all metadata before publishing:

1. Click the menu button near the top-left of the Gallery window.

2. Select "Options" from the pop-up menu.

Or, just press Alt + F then O.

3. The "Windows Live Photo Gallery Options" dialog box appears. Click the "Publish" tab.

4. Underneath "Publish settings", click the "Remove all file details" radio button. Note that you can click "Include all file details except for the following" and manually check/uncheck detail groups, but as the software warns you, that option may not remove all appropriate metadata.

Removing file details when publishing via Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011

5. Click "OK" to close the dialog box.

This tip was written regarding Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 Build 15.4.3502.922 running on a Windows Vista system. Features, information, and screenshots for other versions / operating systems may vary.

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