Saving/moving photos to Desktop

Hi,
I went and moved some photos last night to my desktop so that I could use them in an email as file attachments, and now when I don't want the photos on my desktop any longer and toss them in the recycle bin, the photos turn up missing on my PE Organizer. I've tried renaming the photos, moving them back into Organizer (says the photos are already in Organizer), and nothing works. What is the proper way (other than using the share way in Organizer to send via email) to put photos on the desktop w/o losing them in Organizer once I no longer need them on the desktop? Thanks for your help!

Hi, Thanks for your input, but that didn't solve my problem with trying to get rid of the moved files on my desktop.
I've tried 'exporting' the 15 photos to my desktop- instead of 'moving' them to my desktop- and they came up with the added hyphen -1; -2 etc. to the photos, because of the other 15 photos I moved there. Again, when I delete the photos that I 'moved' from my desktop to the Recycle Bin - I get the 'missing file' in my Organizer. I've exported other photos the way you described to the desktop - no problem when I deleted them to the Recycle Bin- they still are in my Organizer. It has something to do with the fact that I 'moved' those 15 photos instead of exporting them to the desktop. I have renamed them on the desktop and in the export mode, and that doesn't help. It still comes up wanting me to keep those moved files on my desktop. Any other ideas? I would just consider deleting the photos, but they are of my granddaughter eating strawberries- and are so cute. Thanks.

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