Can't Read My Picture Tube Categories

[dino]

I am running Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 3. My PSP is Version 11.
When I want to save a new picture tube in a particular category I cannot see the different categories because they are long paths and run off of the right hand side of the file locations page. They are too long. Although I just installed this version of PSP, I had the same problem in PSP 9, and thought that if I installed the upgrade my problem would disappear. It did not! I will attach a screen shot of the problem, hoping that someone has had this problem before and can tell me how to correct it..Appreciate any help...!

dino

[Ken Berry]

Can't you just put the cursor in the line then useCtrl + the ">" button in between the main keyboard and the alphanumeric part of the keyboard, and keep hitting the > button (with Ctrl pushed) till you get to the end of the line?

[LindaSue]

Is there a reason for adding every single sub-folder to the list? Just add the main folder and check the "Use sub folders" box. PSP will find everything that's inside the main folder and they will be organized by categories based on the sub folder names.

EDIT: Never mind. I see now which folder list you're showing in your screenshot and it's not the list I thought I was seeing.

[LindaSue]

Ken, I found a path in mine that was long enough to try your trick but it doesn't work in that menu. Pressing any of the arrow keys just cycles through the list. Ctrl+End does the same thing too.

[dino]

Yes, you're right Linda, it just cycles through the list and doesn't show me any more. I do have sub folders checked, and like you said, PSP finds the folder and shows me the sub folders so I can choose the one I want to save a tube in..I think they are all there, they are just too long to be read. I can't manipulate them at all. When I select one, it selects the whole path, so I can't use the arrow keys to see it..

Dean

[hartpaul]

In your Attached image you are in the position where you have exported your picture tube and have just selected one of the folder locations. It shows thge start of the address C:\Documents etc and then some way along in my case ... and the end. In your case it shows only the first part of the path. THat is highlighted. Try clicking it again as if you were going to change the name. In my case it then changes to show the full rightside of the path and the Documents etc disappears to the left.
Awkward I know. I guess the other way is to change some of the path names to make them much shorter.

[dino]

Thanks for the response hartpaul.
I tried what you suggested, but all it does is bring down the drop down menu.
I guess I'll have to try and do what you suggested and place the file location somewhere where it won't be so long..

[LindaSue]

Paul, you're thinking that you're seeing the same drop-down menu that I thought at first too. What you see is the bottom "Save to" drop-down list, not the one at the top where you add locations.

[hartpaul]

Ahh I am getting what you are doing.
File > Export > Picture Tube.
Then in the Export Picture Tube dialog box there is an icon for folders just above the OK button.
Clicking the folders gives a File Locations dialog box. The Save to section at the bottom when yo click the down arrow it shows the full path of that file and if the series of names is two long you cannot see the end name.
This is exacerbated by microsoft using the name C:\Documents and Settings\ which is wastefull of path space and letters,
I have not experienced that problem as ...Settings\Paul\My Documents\ is much shorter than ...Settings\Merton Dean Reed\My Documents.
Can you change your log in account name ?
Or you can move the whole lot to the C drive so that it reads C:\miscellaneouspicturetubes
Just remember that in backups as well as backing up from My Documents where most of your material normally is you will now have to back up folders in the C drive folder.

[LindaSue]

The path to my Tubes is short and sweet: