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Question

Why are images on my computer being emailed to microsoft

Aug 10, 2014 5:37PM PDT

I found pictures and still shots of videos I made being sent to Microsoft office picture manager, there they are renamed, a shortcut is created, pictures loaded, exported to a new location, then emailed to Microsoft. Why is this ?

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Re: pics
Aug 10, 2014 5:46PM PDT

Very strange.

- How do you mean "sent to Microsoft Office picture manager"?
- When are they being sent?
- What version of Office?
- What email-address are they e-mailed to?


Kees

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It's probably just paranoia...
Aug 11, 2014 7:27AM PDT

I did a search on my computer one day searching for jpg images. I was surprised to find a photo taken of one frame of a movie I made from my Canon SX50HS. I also found images that had been resized to make them look fatter. They went through my entire C drive and added all these pics to a shortcut which you can open on the toolbar located on Microsoft Office Picture Manager (which is located in Microsoft Office / Microsoft Office Tools. Then they rename the picture by adding a number either before or after the original picture name. They then resize the picture and it's sent to Microsoft Office. And to make it seem more shady... I found the edited images stored in at least 2 unusual locations i.e. (C:\Users\ (My nickname)\AppData\Roaming\Real\RPDS\Content\images. Not to mention another 4 places in a ProgramData file. Kinda makes you go hmmmm. And I always make sure everything is labeled (Share with Nobody)

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that's normal thumbnail image
Aug 13, 2014 10:38AM PDT

created for the video from it, similar to what youtube does.

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I agree, very strange
Aug 10, 2014 5:54PM PDT

Although see from Microsoft's About Picture Manager that it can be used to;

share them with your workgroup. You can send pictures in e-mail messages or create a shared picture library for a collaboration experience that features simplified administration and role-based permissioning, as well as a unique picture management model that enables users to download picture versions of any size or resolution, while efficiently storing the original pictures.

So, if you have not set up Picture Manager to share your images then you may want to talk to the other users of this computer to see who has set this up.

Mark

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Did you know that Windows caches images?
Aug 11, 2014 7:30AM PDT

A summary read of this makes me think there is nothing new here except you may be finding the same old thing others have before.

That is, Explorer and many other apps cache images and more to speed things along.
Bob