The movie for Danny’s fiftieth
Gather photographs that are scattered across a machine — in a folder, inside an old email, and in the Recycle Bin — and send exactly the ones somebody asked for.
This course has been through taking them, finding them, sending them, deleting them and getting them back. Every one of those is about to be needed at once.
Here is a practice machine with somebody’s photographs on it, and one person waiting for three of them. They are not all in the same place, and nothing on the screen is going to say where any of them are.
Key points
- Take a photograph out of an email so that it belongs to you rather than to the message.
- Fetch back a photograph from the place deleted things sit waiting.
- Send several photographs to one person, and know precisely which ones went.
What to remember
- A picture inside a message is not yet a picture you own: it lives or dies with the message, and the day somebody tidies their inbox it goes. Saving it takes one press and puts a copy on your own machine, where it will outlast the email by twenty years. And everything deleted waits — in the Trash on a computer, in Recently Deleted at the bottom of the albums on a phone — for about thirty days before anything means it. That is why a clear-out is never the frightening thing it feels like, and why the first place to look for a photograph that has gone is the place everything goes.
- Honestly — how was that?
Try this
Find the oldest photograph anybody has ever emailed you and save it properly onto your phone or your computer. It takes one press, and afterwards the picture no longer depends on that message being kept.
Practice: The movie for Danny’s fiftieth. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.