How to weed out your Nokia Lumia 1020 high resolution image files

Question. How exercise you go near deleting the loftier resolution image files from you lot Nokia Lumia 1020 Windows Phone without deleting the 5MP, lower resolution copies?

That's a question Windows Telephone Central reader Binson#WP has tossed out over in the WPCentral Forums. There'south no fashion to sync but the depression resolution images and you can't run into the high res image file from your phone. So what's the solution?

When you connect your Lumia 1020 to a reckoner, yous can view your Lumia 1020 image folders through your computer's File Explorer. Only look under your computer's drives and you'll see your Windows Phone listed. Go to the Phone folder and then Pictures then Camera Roll. Both your low and high resolution images will be listed hither.

The high resolution file names will end in "_highres.jpg" and will non take an image thumbnail. For example, paradigm file WP_20130813_13_11_28_Pro_highres.jpg is the high resolution file for the low resolution file WP_20130813_13_11_28_Pro.jpg. You tin always sift through these image files and delete just those with "_highres.jpg" in the file name but that tin exist awfully tiresome.

Ane suggested solution comes from TheCrazySwede who suggests viewing your paradigm files in File Explorer and sort them by file size. The larger high-res files should be grouped together making information technology easier to select the group as a whole and delete them from your Windows Phone (and re-create them to your computer'south hard disk drive).

Simply be careful that video files don't sneak into the files you're deleting. They volition be listed at the upper end due the larger file size besides.

If you've got an easier way to delete just the high resolution paradigm files from the Nokia Lumia 1020, head on over to this forums give-and-take and share your methods.

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