How to easily locate photo opened in Windows 8.1 Photo App

Question

Short story

Where on disk is the photo I'm looking at?

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tldr;

My daughter is scrolling through all photo's we have using the Windows 8.1 Photo App. She has a photo maximized on screen and is using the left/right arrow keys to select a previous/next one.

When she finds a photo she likes, she asks me to save it to an USB drive and this is where things gets weird: "I can't find an easy way to open or even get the file location of the currently maximized photo"

My current workflow to copy the selected photo is to:

• Click on the photo
• Select Open with
• Choose another application (Paint for example)
• Go to File → Save as to find the file location.
• Go to the file location and copy the photo to an USB drive.

This is crazy, there should be a far easier way to do this but unless I'm missing something really obvious, I can't for the life of me find it?

Answer 1

It appears that there is no official way to do this built-in to the Photos app. This solution should at least save you some time. Create a text file with the following contents:

@if not [%1]==[] explorer %~dp1

Save this file and then change the file extension to .bat. For example, if the original file name was OpenDirectory.txt, change it to OpenDirectory.bat. Place this file in a location where it can permanently reside. This batch file opens the folder that contains the file that is passed to it as a command-line argument. It should look like this:

Then, open a photo in the Windows 8 photos app. Choose the "Open with" option.

Uncheck the box that says "Use this app for all .JPG files". Then choose "More options".

Scroll all the way to the bottom and choose "Look for another app on this PC".

Now browse to the location where you saved the OpenDirectory.bat file. Select it. The folder containing the image should open.In the future, OpenDirectory.bat should appear as an option in your "Open with" list:

Don't forget to always uncheck the "Use this app for all .JPG files" box.