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Dave Siciliano

Dave Siciliano

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When I try to look at files on an external drive, they are hazy or just not clear. Thumbnails have a gray tone to them. All is fine and clear on my root drive. How would I correct this? Not getting anywhere with on line help. Don't know how else to describe this and it gets no results.

Best,

Dave
 
Dave Siciliano said:
When I try to look at files on an external drive, they are hazy or just not clear. Thumbnails have a gray tone to them. All is fine and clear on my root drive. How would I correct this? Not getting anywhere with on line help. Don't know how else to describe this and it gets no results.
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Posting a screencap would help a lot. I understand there may be privacy concerns, but I cannot imagine what you are talking about otherwise. Maybe you just need to hit Ctrl-A once.
 
How would I do that? All I see is print screen. If I copy and try to paste to Paint, nothing happens.

Dave
 
It seems attributes were hidden under properties. When I unchecked that, they all came back to normal.

Thanks,

Dave
 
Dave Siciliano said:
How would I do that? I see how to print the screen.

Dave
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To save a screen capture you hit the "Print Screen" key (might be a shifted key combo) when the screen you want to capture is showing. Then open paint, clipboard viewer, or any other app that allows pictures and paste. The function of "Print Screen" was changed several years ago to just copy the screen image to the clipboard.
 
gismo said:
To save a screen capture you hit the "Print Screen" key (might be a shifted key combo) when the screen you want to capture is showing. Then open paint, clipboard viewer, or any other app that allows pictures and paste. The function of "Print Screen" was changed several years ago to just copy the screen image to the clipboard.
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Very intuitive <g>. Print Screen to capture screen; Start to shut down, etc. etc. Don't know why it's confusing to me :mad2:

Best,

Dave
 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/173884

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61544

Or...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=mac/10.4/en/mh364.html

(Apple added the "Grab" application to the OS because people couldn't Google "screen capture Apple" I guess. I haven't used it. ;)

Last time I tried it, launching either Windows Help and searching for "screen capture" or typing "screen capture" into the Spotlight search bar on OSX both brought up instructions, too.

Spotlight on iOS however has no such help. To capture the screen on an iOS device (iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad) depress the main Home button and the soft power-off button simultaneously. The screen will flash and you'll hear a "camera shutter" sound. Exit the App you were in and open the Photo App, and you'll find that your latest "photo" in the phone's photos is the screenshot.

I think Garmin had even added screenshots to the G1000 recently with a software update, where they write it to a properly sized-prepared memory card in one of the slots, but even Google can't find that one. Kent may know...

Windows screenshots of bugs are so easy I do them in my sleep now. From memory...

PrintScreen (or ALT-PrintScreen usually since PrintScreen grabs the entire virtual "desktop" across all monitors which is annoying), Window Key-R, type "mspaint", ALT-N for new file, click mouse inside drawing area, ALT-V to Paste, File->Save As... Pick a file type and name.

E-mail it off to higher-paid Engineer who should have known better. ;)
 
Don't know what's causing your problem (although it sounds like a communication issue between your PC and the drive... does this happen with more than one drive?), but for screencaps and some basic image/video editing functions, I highly recommend irfanview. It even has a mode where you can drag a box around only the part of the screen you want to capture... very handy. It plays nice with XP, too.

And it's freeware!

http://www.irfanview.com/
 
denverpilot said:
I think Garmin had even added screenshots to the G1000 recently with a software update, where they write it to a properly sized-prepared memory card in one of the slots, but even Google can't find that one. Kent may know...
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I've tried to do some G1000 screen grabs - I pestered a bunch of people, and I got two vaguely similar methods, but neither one worked. I think Garmin only wants certain people to do them for some reason. :dunno:
 
rottydaddy said:
Don't know what's causing your problem (although it sounds like a communication issue between your PC and the drive... does this happen with more than one drive?), but for screencaps and some basic image/video editing functions, I highly recommend irfanview. It even has a mode where you can drag a box around only the part of the screen you want to capture... very handy. It plays nice with XP, too.

And it's freeware!

http://www.irfanview.com/
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This is digital, not analog. The file is the file. If you have a communication problem you wouldn't get the file, at best you'd get a corrupted file, and there is basically no chance the corruption would produce a perfect jpeg of the same image with a slightly gray tone.

This just sounds like some sort of odd software quirk. I doubt it looks different in a real photo application.
 
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