Image - Name and Location/Storage

[Acorn]

I think acorn is referring to exporting the image held in the XAR file to a location of your choosing, thereby recovering a copy

+1

Acorn

[handrawn]

btw: I remember reading somewhere when I first started with xara [so a long time ago] a suggestion by the company that you could use a XAR file simply to store bitmaps in - the options have widened considerably since then, but I still have XARs that contain the only copies of their bitmaps [the XARs are backed up of course ]

[gwpriester]

As I suggested, not to save an image but to find (as per the OP request) the location of an image.

OK. I know this image is on my D drive.

I wrote down the image file I was searching for based on the name of the image in Bitmap Gallery.

In File Explorer, D drive I searched for b & w 9.png

Voila!

[Acorn]

Right click on any image in the Bitmap Gallery and select the Save menu option to save the original JPEG/PNG back to your file system.

I mention this approach and the one I covered above as all too often people delete original images.

It is also worth looking for a Masters sub-folder, typically alongside you XAR file location (probably not in Xara Web Designer though): Options > Photo Editing.
When you open an image file ain a Blank Photo template, you get this added bonus.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

Right click on any image in the Bitmap Gallery and select the Save menu option to save the original JPEG/PNG back to your file system.

Nope. Does not work. I just tried this with another fill image from my D drive and Save wants to save it to my desktop.

[Acorn]

Nope. Does not work. I just tried this with another fill image from my D drive and Save wants to save it to my desktop.

I didn't say, nor does Xara, that it restores back to the original location, just the image file can be saved into your file system.

Acorn

[handrawn]

whoa - look...

if you are like me, the likelyhood of the original still being where it was is small

but if it is, then Gary's search method will work,but i would most likely have offlined it to archive

you are arguing at cross purpose...

acorn - how to recover a copy

gary - how to find the location of the original

these are different things...

EDIT - acorn snuck in post as I was typing

[Acorn]

whoa - look...
if you are like me, the likelyhood of the original still being where it was is small
but if it is, then Gary's search method will work,but i would most likely have offlined it to archive
you are arguing at cross purpose...
acorn - how to recover a copy
gary - how to find the location of the original
these are different things...

EDIT - acorn snuck in post as I was typing

handrawn, thank you for the intervention.

The analogy in my head is:

PERSON: "I've lost my keys to the house!".
ME: That's OK. I've the spares here."
PERSON: "But, I've lost MY keys!!"
ME: "But, you in the house. What you wanted was to get into the house, not just have some keys."
PERSON: "But the keychain has MY Squiggly the Dog toy!!!"
ME: "But we can relax over a tea and work out where you keys and Squiggly might be."
...

Getting the filename is the most important bit.
Using MS Windows to locate the right Squiggly the Dog is more problematic: I have 17 *squiggly.png files on my system (which I didn't even know about).

Acorn

[gwpriester]

Marcie asked:

In Xara Web Designer Pro x 11 i have dropped an image in - and now don't remember where it is stored or what it is called.. How do i find info/properties for an image and find out what folder i stored it in and what i named it??