Find your photos stored on Windows 10 PC

If you happen to have ever transferred or copied photos to and from your pc and then you forgot where they are. Likewise, if you have external hard drives as storage and don't want to do manual searches, Windows 10 makes things easier for you. Likewise, the system can easily and quickly find all the photos on your computer.

Steps to find photos with manual options in Windows 10

First of all, you should know that photos are saved in different places on your computer, depending on the source. In most cases, Windows stores photos in the "My Pictures" folder. Many services that sync data try to keep the photos in that folder.

However, iCloud, OneDrive and Dropbox will all have pictures stored in their own folders. Likewise, if you transfer and save images from devices connected directly to your computer, it is possible that they will be saved in different places and you will not remember them. Now, if you download photos from the Internet, they will be saved in the "Downloads" folder.

You should look in the most popular places

Now, if you have the time and patience, the two places you should start from are the "Pictures" folder and the "Downloads" folder. These folders can be found via "Quick Access" located in the left panel. They will be in a File Explorer window.

Alike; Let Windows 10 Search scan your system and find all your photos.

However, File Explorer has an easy way to search for any type of document. This trick isn't hidden or anything, however, people don't care to know about it.

The first thing you need to do is open File Explorer. Then, you have to go to the location where you want to start your search. Similarly, you can search your entire computer by choosing the "This PC" option. This option is found in the File Explorer navigation pane.

Similarly, you can search for a particular hard drive or folder. To better illustrate, let's take C drive as an example:

You need to do the following steps to get it right

Now you need to click on the search box on the top right of the current window. Now you will see the "Search" tab, so you need to click on the "Type" section, then choose the "Images" option in the menu that has just appeared.

Now, what you need to type will be the following:

type:=image

This will display all the results of the search you just made.

As you may have noticed, the results of what you've done previously show everything. From images used by your Windows 10 operating system. Plus any images you have saved in folders and subfolders. This search will include all image formats (JPG, PNG, GIF and BMP except RAW format).

It remains only to select the desired images

Finally, once you have seen the image or images you wanted to search for, you just have to select it and right click on it. Then, you have to choose the "Open file location" option. This will bring up the folder where said image or set of images is hosted.

This way, with the images located, you can move them to a specific folder and remember that you have the images saved there. You can also save them to an external hard drive or any storage device. That way, you won't forget about them.