The two photographs Sheila needs
Find a particular photograph among hundreds, fetch back one you thought had gone for good, and send exactly the two you meant — no more and no fewer.
This course has been through the camera, the photographs it makes, where they go on the day you delete them, and how to send one without sending all of them.
Here is a practice machine with somebody’s whole picture library on it, most of it named by a camera rather than by a person. Two photographs are wanted, and nobody is going to tell you where they are.
Key points
- Find a photograph among hundreds, by what it is called and when it was taken.
- Fetch back something you deleted, from the place everything deleted sits waiting.
- Send the pictures you actually meant, and know what went before you press Send.
What to remember
- Deleting a photograph almost never means deleting it. Nearly everything keeps what you have thrown away in a second place for a while first — usually a month, sometimes two, and on a computer often until you empty it yourself. On an iPhone that place is called Recently Deleted, near the foot of the albums; on an Android phone it is the Trash, in the Library. Whatever it is called on yours, it is worth finding once, because it is what makes a clear-out something other than frightening. And choosing which photographs go is the same act everywhere: pick them one at a time, look at what is showing before you send, and only the ones with their names on it travel.
- Honestly — how was that?
Try this
Open the photographs on your own phone and find Recently Deleted, at the bottom of the list of albums. Everything you have thrown away in the last thirty days is sitting in there, whole, waiting to be asked for.
Practice: The two photographs Sheila needs. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.