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Robin Nichols
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Robin Nichols

Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance photographer. During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.
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Finding lost or disconnected files

Elements keeps all your original files, plus all your edited material, displayed in the Organizer—but only if you ask it to by checking the Include in the Elements Organizer box in the File>Save As window. That's the theory, but as we all know, in real life, things rarely go 100% to plan. Pictures can get corrupted, get lost, or just go missing. The following are a few strategies to initiate if you can't find images you thought were already imported and part of Elements' Organizer.

On any typical day, you might see a missing file or two in the Media area of Organizer. In my experience, Elements is very good at finding these errant files, providing it has the time (that is, you don't cancel the search prematurely) and that it is still in existence (that is, the image has not been deleted or renamed).

Check the Organizer: If your image was originally imported into the Organizer, but has disappeared for...

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Robin Nichols

Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance photographer. During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.
Read more about Robin Nichols