photos from e-mails

[sentrysam]

How do i get rid of all these photos from my messages that other people send me ?They are pileing up by the 100's....ss

[bigtoe]

What email program are you using?

Are you saving the pictures somewhere else on the computer or are you leaving them as attachments to those emails?

Pretty hard to answer without at least some information as to what program(s) you are talking about....

[sentrysam]

YAHOO

[bigtoe]

If you have not saved the photos onto your computer, but just left them as attachments on the emails or they are embedded in the actual email body, then you are in "luck"... they are not on your computer... Yahoo is a web based email program, meaning the mail stays on the Yahoo server and you can't see those pictures until you log into Yahoo and your email account. Yahoo mail and other webmail is not downloaded onto our computer, we just read it on the server of webmail providers.

If, on the other hand, you have downloaded and saved those attachments onto your computer, ( a photo is no different than any other file, it is just a document in picture form instead of text form ), then likely you would have saved them in a folder on your computer called My Pictures which is a sub folder of My Documents...... You also may have created a separate folder on your desktop in which you saved those pictures into or created a new folder somewhere on your C drive in which you saved those photos....

Now, since you haven't provided any further information, one can only guess where your pictures are stored... at this point only you know.

So, in general terms, deleting those pictures that may have been downloaded and saved in a folder on your computer, deleting them is no different than deleting any other file on your computer. You can click on Start and then click on and open My Documents, locate that storage folder and do a single left mouse click on it to highlite it.. then either hit the delete button, or do a right mouse click and select delete from the drop down menu... You will probably be asked if you are sure if you want to delete the folder, click yes, and it is then sent to your trash recycle bin on the desk top. When you are 100% positive that you no longer want those pictures in that folder, then just empty the recycle bin/trash can.

They still exist on your computer, just like everything else you ever delete. Your operating system just marks that space on the hard drive used to store those files/pictures as being available for the system to write to effective immediately. Eventually, those files will be overwritten by other files and be harder and harder to ever recover - unless you use some really expensive, high quality file recovery programs that can search the hard drive and recover them. That is what a forensic computer technician does for businesses or law enforcement. But, essentially, for you, once you delete the folder holding those picture files they are gone.

Not knowing any other info other than your email program name of Yahoo, can't really give you any other info except the standard steps to delete any file we have on our computer or in the case of yahoo email (with domain names of Yahoo.com, Ymail.com and Rocketmail.com) they may not even be on your computer at all but stored on the Yahoo mail servers......

If you will be so kind as to give some other clues about how you deal with email pictures then a more refined and definite answer can be given. Or, you can look in the Help file on your computer for the word delete or delete files and you can see and read further explanation of deleting files.....

[sentrysam]

Please excuse me for being rather lax on answering this,trying to buy a home ,lawyers,insurance,etc...Anyway,the photos come from e-mails on yahoo and they;re on the side bar in my e mail that says attachments,100's of them ,jokes.cartoons etc.Is this slowing my computer up any?Also ,how do I put the auto fill button on my toolbar on top.?This machine is a laptop ,and it's got Mozila Firefox or something like that..thank you for your assistance...ss

[bigtoe]

Not a problem... life goes on and we always have to attend to that...

Again, since photos are part of yahoo email they are stored on the Yahoo email server and not on your computer..... that is why you can access them from any computer that is connected to the Internet that you are on and have logged in to your Yahoo email account..... they only time you even know they are there is when you are connected to the account and on the Internet at the Yahoo mail site.

The auto-fill feature is something that is connected with a Toolbar which you are using... perhaps the Yahoo Toolbar, the Google Toolbar, and so forth.... Not knowing which Toolbar you are using, I am just going to take a guess and give the link to the info for the Google Toolbar and how you go about completing the Auto-fill feature for it.... http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47972

If you are using the Yahoo Toolbar or another one, just click the Help button/clickable word at the top of the page and do a search for Auto-fill... that will give you the directions for that toolbar.......