win7 libraries

Ashfield · 7 Oct 2009 at 15:19

Read a bit about these and am wondering...

Can anyone explain what these are for and what would be good use of them?

Thanks
Ash

bledd · 7 Oct 2009 at 15:22

it's basically a central 'shortcut' / virtual folder, containing multiple folders

you can specify extra folders to be part of the 'pictures' library for example

just have a play with it

marc2003 · 7 Oct 2009 at 15:22

it's to consolidate files that are spread all over the place into one location. let's say you've got multiple music folders on drives d:, e: and f:\. now add these to the "music" library and you can browse them all as one "music" folder.

Ashfield · 7 Oct 2009 at 15:23

ah right. i get it.

thanks

RobH · 7 Oct 2009 at 16:00

If you add some new files to a library then they go in the first folder that makes up the library. You can expand the library to see which folder it consists of.