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DigiScrapInfo FAQ - The five questions posted most recently:

Recovering from crashes. Deleting the cdx files.

You are going to delete the .cdx files in the database, the .cdx files are the thumbnails files the database generates and they can become corrupt therefore we can delete them with out effecting any database information, The steps for that are as follows.
(only do one of the steps 2 - 6 depending on which software & operating system you have)

If you feel uncomfortable doing this, I would recommend making a copy of the Default folder before proceeding.

Close Photo Manager.
If you have moved your database to a somewhere other than the default location, please go to that location. If you haven't moved it (and you would know if you have) then select the default location for the correct version and operating system.
In Version 9 on XP: In Windows Explorer go to this location: "C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\ACD Systems\Catalogs\90\Default"
In Version 10 on XP: In Windows Explorer go to this location: "C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\ACD Systems\Catalogs\100\Default"
In Version 9 on Vista: Go to this location: My Computer, C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\ACD Systems\Catalogs\90\Default
In Version 10 on Vista: Go to this location: My Computer, C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\ACD Systems\Catalogs\100\Default
Once you are in the correct folder:
Go to View | Details
Click on the Type column header to sort the files by type of file.
Select all files that are listed as cdx files and hit the delete key.

Tip: Make sure you go to YOUR_USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data. There is a YOUR_USER_NAME\Application Data and that is the wrong one...

Tip for On XP If you cannot view the Local Settings folder:

click Tools (or View) | Folder Options.

Click the View Tab.

Select Show Hidden Files and Folders.

Click Like Current Folder or Apply to All Folders.

Click Yes.

Click OK.

Tip for On Vista If you cannot view the AppData folder:

If you cannot see the menu bar, you have to press the Alt-key on the keyboard and the menu bar should be visible.

click Tools (or View) | Folder Options.

Click the View Tab.

Select Show Hidden Files and Folders.

Click Like Current Folder or Apply to All Folders.

Click Yes.

Click OK.

If you can't find the cdx files and you are sure you are in the right folder, please look at this screenshot. You want to select all HIGHLIGHTED files and delete them. DELETE only the highlighted ones in the screenshot and leave the others.

Auto Category Question: I have a misspelled author/designer name. How do I get rid of them?

The first thing to do is click on Author in Auto Categories, then hit F5 on the keyboard to refresh.

If the misspelled Author is still displayed, then:

Click it to show the images assigned to it.
Select all the entries (Ctrl-a) for the misspelled Author and use the Properties pane to change the author name to the correct spelling.
After that, click Author again in Auto Categories, then click F5 to refresh.

The mispelled author should disappear. If not, let it be and next ACDSee restarts it will probably be gone.

Using ACDSee with multiple EHD's (Large & Travel size)

You can try this but I am not sure how well it will work. Not very many people have had success with rebind.

Using ACDSee Photo Manager on 2 Computers (desktop & laptop) with 2 EHDs, where one EHD is large drive and the second is portable EHD containing a subset of kits on large drive. User wants Photo Manager to be used on either desktop or laptop with large EHD plugged in or while traveling laptop with portable EHD.

This will also work if you only work on one computer with 2 EHD's (portable not large non-portable.) Just skip the last step at the very bottom.

We will start with organizing on your laptop and then later transfer the information to the desktop.

1. Back up your database (for protection in case of mistakes) Backing up ACDSee Photo Manager Database

2. Inside Photo Manager, create a folder on non-portable EHD (NP-EHD for short) and place all the kits that you know you want to be on your portable (P-EHD for short) I will call this folder "KitsWhileTraveling" In the future, this is the place to put kits that you want to transfer over to P-EHD. It won't be all your kits since the P-EHD isn't as big as NP-EHD.

3. At this point, inside Photo Manager, move your kits that you would like to use while traveling and place in this new folder "KitsWhileTraveling"

4. Let's copy the images over to the P-EHD. To do this, connect both NP-EHD & P-EHD to the desktop and create a synch. The tutorial for that is here: Synchronization with ACDSee Photo Manager 9

source folder: The folder on NP-EHD called "KitsWhileTraveling"
backup destination folder: Identical folder name on P-EHD.
There is no need to set up a scheduled synch. Once created, run the synch. This will copy over all your digital kits to your P-EHD which may take a while.

When you get ready to travel:

Run synch created in step 4
Connect your P-EHD to your laptop. Okay, now your laptop things your data is on NP-EHD. We need to rebind the info and tell it it's not on the NP-EHD but on the P-EHD. To do that on your laptop Photo Manager, go do this: Rebind

In Step 6 of that help: The folder you need to choose is NP-EHD "KitsWhileTraveling" and click on the ? (orphan) for the NP-EHD to rebind

In Step 9 of that help: The folder you need to choose is P-EHD "KitsWhileTraveling"

Now you should have all your organizing and kits working with your portable drive.

When you are done traveling:

6. , Rebind the "KitsIWantToUse" folder from your P-EHD back to your NP-EHD. That way when you organize, you are organizing on the right one. You are telling the database they are back on your NP-EHD.

In Step 6 of that help: The folder you need to choose is P-EHD "KitsWhileTraveling" click on the ? (orphan) for the P-EHD to rebind

In Step 9 of that help: The folder you need to choose is NP-EHD "KitsWhileTraveling"

To continue to use this system. Organize, download, on your laptop. If you know you want to use the kit while traveling put it in "KitsWhileTraveling" . Then before you travel do these steps.

To transfer ACDSee organizing to desktop:

To get the organizing onto your desktop. Do the following steps:

Working on 2 computers with EHD

I would recommend doing these steps when you are in a not-traveling phase.. That is when your database thinks all your files are on the NP-EHD.

Designer Credits: How do I use ACDSee to keep track of images used in a layout so I can properly credit the designer?

Method 1:

Using the Image Basket

The drawback of this method is that the contents of the basket is not saved between sessions.

There is a way to track your files being used. It isn't quite automatic but requires one extra stop of dragging and dropping.

As you work, open up the Image Basket. View | Image Basket.
Note: Previously we suggested using the Burn Basket (to save between sessions) and have found out that you can't generate file lists from it. So it is not recommended.
As you grab an element or paper to work with, drag & drop it first in the image basket (it won't do any actual move), then grab it again and drop into your editor. Here is an example:

See the image basket pane in the bottom of the window:

When you are done, you can remove any you didn't use.
At completions of layout, select all the images in the basket.
Go Database -> Export -> Generate File List (Ctrl - G) and this file should appear.
You can now save this with your layout. This is the text file it creates:

Method 2

Once you create a Favorite shortcut as described in this help, if you move your digital kits (from within or outside of ACDSee) your favorites shortcuts will not follow and you will lose the link. So try not move your digital kits around too much and you can avoid this.

Using Favorites

Right click on a image that you used in a layout, choose Add to Favorites.
To see your Favorites (use View | Favorites).
Select the images and do Ctrl-G to generate a file list. (I know this works because I tried it and I know it saves between sessions.)

After you created a file list you can delete the files in favorites. These are really just shortcuts to your images and you are not deleting your images. The way you can tell they are shortcuts is they have a little arrow in the bottom left corner. I don't like the feel of deleting favorites because it feels like you are deleting the images. But assuming you are in Favorites, look for the little arrows to identify shortcuts, then it is safe to delete favorites.

Another possibility that I see with Favorites to keep track of many layouts credits.

Bring up the favorites windows
Right click on Favorites and choose New | Folder
Create a folder named "Your Layout" and then store all the shortcuts to the images you use there. (Drag and Drop them after then have been added to Favorites.)
For your next layout, do the same thing.

You could generate the file listing at any time for any of layouts done this way.
This would be useful for working on multiple layouts at one time.

How to customize your file listing to get credits easily?

First though you have had to put the kit name in the Caption Box & designer name into the Author Box as described in this tutorial: Easily add kit name & Designer

Under Tools | Options,
click on the File List,
click on Detail View
click on Choose Details. That will bring you to this screen:

Click on ACD Database
Click on the Caption & Author Box
Click on Add.
Click OK, and OK

Now, any properties listed on the right side will be exported when you do a generate file listing:

2 Computer: How do I use ACDSee Photo Manager on 2 computers with the same digital kits on a EHD

ACDSee Photo Manager keeps an internal database about all the files and organization. That organization (ACDSee Database) needs to be accesible by both computers. The External Hard Drive is recognized by its volume ID so it knows where the files are. So the trick is to place the internal database is a spot accessible to both computers which is namely the External Hard Drive.

Directions on working on 2 computers with a external hard drive between them:

Important: If you want to share your database between a Vista & XP computers, their is some extra steps that NEED to be done.

Place all your digital kits and images on the External Hard Drive (EHD). To do this: How to Move Organized Digital Kits
The next step is getting the ACDSee database moved on to your EHD:
Exit ACDSee Photo Manager
Connect your EHD
Open Windows Explorer
Browse to this location:

In Version 9 on XP: In Windows Explorer go to this location: "C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\ACD Systems\Catalogs\90"
In Version 10 on XP: In Windows Explorer go to this location: "C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\ACD Systems\Catalogs\100"
In Version 9 on Vista: Go to this location: My Computer, C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\ACD Systems\Catalogs\90
In Version 10 on Vista: Go to this location: My Computer, C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\ACD Systems\Catalogs\100
XP Tips: View your Local Settings Folder (for XP)
Vista Tips: How to view your AppData folder on Vista

Select the Default folder and choose Edit | Copy (or Ctrl-c)
Still in Windows Explorer, browse to the EHD.
Make a new folder called ACDSee Database
Click on the new folder you just created, and choose Edit | Paste (or Ctrl-v) to copy the Default folder (Database) to the EHD.
Start ACDSee Photo Manager (This step is what I call "Pointing to the database")

Click on Tools | Options
Click on the Database
At the end of the path of the database, click on the icon and browse to your EHD. On the EHD select this path: ACDSee Database\Default

Restart Photo Manager and make sure your categories are there and you can search for your images and go to file takes you to your files.
Close down ACDSee Photo Manager and unplug your EHD. Connect the EHD to the second computer.
If BOTH computers are XP, or BOTH are Vista, or the original computer was Vista: then repeat step 11 & 12 on the second computer.
If the first computer is XP and the second computer is Vista, then do the following:

Close Photo Manager
Using Windows Explorer, browse to the EHD:\ACDSee Database folder.
Select the Default folder and choose Edit | Copy (or Ctrl-c)
Browse to:

In Version 9 on Vista: Go to this location: My Computer, C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\ACD Systems\Catalogs\90
In Version 10 on Vista: Go to this location: My Computer, C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\ACD Systems\Catalogs\100

Right click on the Default folder and rename the Default folder to Default-old
Choose Edit | Paste (or Ctrl-v) to copy in Default folder (Database) from the EHD.
Start Photo Manager, make sure your categories are there and you can search.
Close Photo Manager
Browse to same location on Vista as step #4 above.
Select the Default folder and choose Edit | Copy (or Ctrl-c)
Browse to the EHD:\ACDSee Database folder.
Delete the Default folder here.
Choose Edit | Paste (or Ctrl-v) to copy in Default folder (Database) from the Vista computer.
Then do steps 11 & 12 above.
Lastly, always optimize from the Vista computer!!

Word of Caution: Your database for ACDSee is now stored on EHD. If you start ACDSee and the EHD is disconnected you will receive an error message "Can not connect to database" So always connect the EHD before starting ACDSee Photo Manager.

Red Pixels? Green Pixels? My white image has a great deal of red/green pixelation, how do I fix it?

When I view an image with a lot of white in the viewer, the white has a great deal of red pixelation. How do I get rid of it?

It's the exposure warning - press the yellow flower (red background) at top right of the viewer

Or go to Tools | Exposure warning and uncheck the boxes.

Installing ACDSee Photo Manager with custom options

You may want to install ACDSee Photo Manager with custom options in 2 cases:

If you want to install ACDSee Photo Manager in a location other than the default location such as a second internal hard drive. I don't recommend installing onto an external hard drive since this makes ACDSee inoperable if the external hard drive is not connected.
If you want to customize which files you want ACDSee to be in charge of viewing. This is called file associations. The default installation of the ACDSee Photo Manager seems to take over your computer and file types.

To start download the trial.

Run the trial exe file.
Click Next
Click on the "I accept the terms" and click Next
Enter in your name & organization. If it is a trial, select trial. If you have a license number, click on Full and enter the license number. Then click Next
Choose Custom if you wish to change the default location of where ACDSee is installed to. If you want the default location on your main c: drive, then choose Complete. Click Next

If you chose Custom, you will be shown this screen. Click on the Change button and choose the desired location.

If you want to customize which file types that you want ACDSee to open, then choose Custom and click Next
XP ONLY: Choose whether you want the Yahoo toolbar or not, the click Next.
If Vista, go to step 17. On XP: ACDSee will start installing. Eventually you will get this screen:

On the Image Tab: Click on Select All. Then go through the list and remove any image types that you want your other software to handle.
On the Video & Audio tab: I would choose Remove All
On the Archive tab: It is your choice.
Then click OK.
Then skip to step 19

On Vista, you will get this window:

None of the boxes will be checked. I suggest checking:

BMP
GIF
JPG & JPEG
PNG
TIF & TIFF
Any that say ACDSee 10 Photo Manager

At this point, ACDSee will start with either a welcome screen, catalog screen or convert screen depending on your system.

If it is asking you to catalog your images. We recommend not cataloging your digital kits but you can catalog your photos if you want to use ACDsee to view your photos.
If you are converting your database see this help: Upgrade from ACDSee 9 and ACDSee 10

PSD Files: Having problems with .psd files?

problem:

Solution: The problem is how the .psd's are saved. If you are creating them yourself make sure file compatibility is turned on. To do this:

In Adobe Photoshop, turn on this setting (which I think it is on by default) and save the file as a new name. Here is the option that needs to be changed in Adobe Photoshop and to access it: Edit -> Preferences -> File Handling

Note: I would think saving it with the same name, selecting the newly saved psd thumbnail, doing Database | Rebuild Thumbnails and Metadata would do the same thing. But the user that discovered this said it didn't work for her that way.

Locking or Crashing? ACDSee initial install errors.

There are two fixes for initial install errors (which usually occur when ACDSee doesn't finish the cataloging process). Try the first, then restart Photo Manager. If that doesn't resolve the problem, then, try the second. Neither will cause you to lose any data.

This help can fix these issues:

I bought & installed ACDSee Photo Manager 9/10. I installed everything as indicated with no apparent problems. However, now when I try to start the program, it crashes & refuses to open.

Another situation that we've experienced is that after awhile - the software crashes & locks up... these instr's will also work in that case too.

First Possible Solution:

Recovering from crashes. Deleting the cdx files.

Second Possible Solution:

If the software crashes after install - this has also worked to resolve problems - but the above usually resolves the problem -

(Before doing this - did you save your database in a custom location? If so, then the settings are removed so ACDSee will point toward the default location therefore you will have to load ACDSee click on the Tools menu then select Options and click on Database and point the database back to the custom location.)

ACDSee gives me an Error message after install --

Choose one of the following to do:

Manual Registry Editing steps:

There may be an issue with the registry key that holds the settings for ACDSee, we can try deleting this registry which will delete the settings for ACDSee. This step will NOT effect your image files or data.

Go to the Start Menu | Run. Type in REGEDIT and hit Enter.
Click on the + sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Click on the + sign next to Software. Right Click on the ACD Systems entry (Folder) and select Delete.

or the ACDSee provided registry tool:

Registry Tool to Delete User Settings

If it still continues to be troublesome (won't open), please visit this thread:

ACDSee Reinstall Thread

Registry Tool to Delete User Settings

Registry tool to delete users settings in ACDSee Photo Manager on XP and Vista.

http://files.acdsystems.com/english/techsupport/reg/prod/r_acdsee.exe

Manually editing the registry settings

on XP:

Go to the Start Menu | Run. Type in REGEDIT and hit Enter.
Click on the + sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
Click on the + sign next to Software.
Right Click on the ACD Systems entry (Folder) and select Delete.

on Vista:

Close Photo Manager
Go to the Start Menu
Then click on Search and Type in REGEDIT and hit Enter.
Click on the + sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
Click on the + sign next to Software.
Right Click on the ACD Systems entry (Folder) and
Select Delete.
Close this program
Reopen Photo Manager

I bought a new computer, how do I transfer ACDSee Photo Manager info and files from my old computer to my new computer.

Old Computer -> New Computer:

The following method works best when going from one XP computer to another XP computer or one Vista computer to another Vista computer.

If you want to go from XP -> Vista, then this is the recommended way: Using Export/Import Feature to transfer Databases to other computers

On your old computer:

Connect the EHD (External Hard Drive) to the computer that has ACDSee installed on it with all your images and data.
Use ACDSee to move all the images to the EHD. How to Move Organized Images (photos or digital kits) with ACDSee
Once you have done so you will need to copy the database folder to the new hard drive as well there for please browse to:

In Version 9 on XP: In Windows Explorer go to this location: "C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\ACD Systems\Catalogs\90"
In Version 10 on XP: In Windows Explorer go to this location: "C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\ACD Systems\Catalogs\100"
In Version 9 on Vista: Go to this location: My Computer, C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\ACD Systems\Catalogs\90
In Version 10 on Vista: Go to this location: My Computer, C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\ACD Systems\Catalogs\100

Copy the Default folder found in the above folders and paste it on the EHD.

On your new computer:

Download a new trial of ACDSee from ACDSee.com
Install the software and insert in your license key. Buy my trial: I used the trial, and I ...
Connect the EHD to the new pc
Start ACDSee
Click on Tools | Options | Database.
At the end of the path of the database location, click on the icon and browse to and select the Default folder on the EHD.
Verify the database information is appearing for the images on the EHD
Then use ACDSee to move all the files from the EHD to the new PC's hard drive.
After you have moved all the images to the PC's hard drive once again verify the database information is there for the images.
Close ACDSee
In Windows Explorer, browse to the EHD find the Default folder you copied to it from your old computer and make a copy of that folder.
Browse to:

In Version 9 on XP: In Windows Explorer go to this location: "C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\ACD Systems\Catalogs\90"
In Version 10 on XP: In Windows Explorer go to this location: "C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\ACD Systems\Catalogs\100"
In Version 9 on Vista: Go to this location: My Computer, C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\ACD Systems\Catalogs\90
In Version 10 on Vista: Go to this location: My Computer, C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\ACD Systems\Catalogs\100

Paste it Default folder into correct folder listed above on the new PC.
Start ACDSee
Click on Tools | Options | Database
Browse to and select the default folder that we just pasted into.
Restart ACDSee and verify the database information is there on the new PC.

How to view your AppData folder on Vista
Tip 3: On Vista If you cannot view the AppData folder:

If you cannot see the menu bar, you have to press the Alt-key on the keyboard and the menu bar should be visible.

click Tools (or View) | Folder Options.

Click the View Tab.

Select Show Hidden Files and Folders.

Click Like Current Folder or Apply to All Folders.

Click Yes.

Click OK.

View your Local Settings Folder (for XP)
XP Tips: How to View your Local Settings Folder

If you cannot view the Local Settings folder:
Click Tools (or View) | Folder Options.
Click the View Tab.
Select Show Hidden Files and Folders.
Click Like Current Folder or Apply to All Folders.
Click Yes.
Click OK.

Upgrade from ACDSee 9 and ACDSee 10

If you are just trialing ACDSee 10, skip the uninstall of ACDSee 9. Unfortunately anything you were to organize in 10 wouldn't transfer back to ACDSee 9 if you decided to not upgrade. But ACDSee 9 would be fine and still functional.

For the standard user that isnt sharing databases between multiple computers via EHD

Start ACDSee 9 and optimize.
1. Optimize your ACDSee Database
Uninstall ACDSee 9. This step can be actually done at anytime. If you feel more comfortable waiting until you have ACDSee 10 running then I would recommend doing this step at the end.
1. Go to Start | Control Panel
2. Choose Add or Remove Programs
3. Click ACDSee 9 and choose Remove
Install ACDSee 10
1. It will tell you that it needs to convert your database:
3. Click Next
4. There is no need to Rebuild thumbnails, EXIF and IPTC data for local images so leave that box unchecked.
5. Do check the Optimize database files after convert
7. Click Next
8. Click Next to start the conversion.
9. Once the conversion is done, you should be able to start using ACDSee 10 with all your information/organizing that you had in ACDSee 9.

For the users, that have their database stored on their EHD and upgrading from ACDSee 9 to ACDSee 10, on multiple computers, please follow these specific directions:

On the first computer: Follow the steps above, after you install ACDSee 10 and the first conversion screen comes up. To the right of filename click on the button to browse for you database. Browse to your EHD folder and find the folder where you database is stored.
Continue with the rest of the steps.
The Converted database will be stored back in the default location:
- on XP: C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Local Settings\Application Data\ACD Systems\Catalogs\100\Default
- on Vista: Go to this location: My Computer, C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\ACD Systems\Catalogs\100
Copy the Default folder back to your EHD and place it a folder called something like: ACDSee Database 10″
1. Click on Tools | Options
2. Click on the Database
3. At the end of the path of the database, click on the icon and browse to your EHD. On the EHD select this path: ACDSee Database 10\default
On your second computer, uninstall ACDSee 9.
Install ACDSee 10
Cancel the conversion and just point the database to ACDSee Database 10 folder on your EHD.
1. Click on Tools | Options
2. Click on the Database
3. At the end of the path of the database, click on the icon and browse to your EHD. On the EHD select this path: ACDSee Database 10\default

In case of errors:

Make sure you have recently optimized in ACDSee Photo Manager 9 . Close ACDSee Photo Manager 9
Close ACDSee Photo Manager 10
In Version 10 on XP: In Windows Explorer go to this location: "C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\ACD Systems\Catalogs\100"
In Version 10 on Vista: Go to this location: My Computer, C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\ACD Systems\Catalogs\100
Right click on "Default" folder and rename it to "oldDefault."
Restart ACDSee Photo Manager 10.
go to Database | Convert Database...
click Next
choose ACDSee 9.0
For the database location, choose this location if you have never moved her database otherwise choose location where your database is located:

on XP: "C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\ACD Systems\Catalogs\90"
on Vista: Go to this location: My Computer, C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\ACD Systems\Catalogs\90

Click Next & Next
Hopefully the errors are gone and you running successfully with ACDSee 10.
If not, please post at our forum

File Format Types

Image read support formats

ANI	Windows animated cursor	Shows cursor animation
ART	AOL ART	Still images
BMP	Windows Bitmap	Windows and OS/2; 2/8/16/24/32 bpp; RLE and uncompressed
CNV	Canvas	Thumbnails only
CR2	Canon RAW CR2
CRW	Canon RAW CRW
CUR	Windows cursor
CVX	Canvas	Thumbnails only
DCR	Kodak RAW DCR
DCX	Multiple-page PCX	All sub-types and multiple pages supported
DNG	Digital negative	An open-source archival format for RAW files
DJV	DjVu
EMF	Enhanced Metafile Format	Win32 enhanced placeable metafiles
EPS	Encapsulated PostScript	Displays embedded thumbnail (TIFF formats) and first page only
FPX	FlashPix	Multiple resolution support
GIF	Graphics Interchange Format	Single page and animated; 87a and 89a
ICN	AT&T ICN
ICO	Windows icon	Shows multiple resolutions as separate pages
IFF	EA/Amiga Interchange File Format	1-24 bpp, including HAM and HAM8; multiple pages and animations not supported
JP2	JPEG2000	48-bit support
JPC	JPEG2000	48-bit support
JPG	JPEG JFIF	JFIF and Adobeä CMYK
KDC	Kodakä KDC	Reads both the full image and the embedded thumbnail
MAG	MAG	All sub-types supported
MRW	Konica Minolta RAW
NEF	Nikon RAW
ORF	Olympus RAW
PBM	Portable BitMap
PCD	Kodakä PhotoCD	Up to 3072x2048 resolution (16BASE)
PCX	ZSoft Publishers Paintbrush	All sub-types supported
PEF	Pentax RAW PEF
PGM	Portable GrayMap
PIC	SoftImage PIC	All sub-types supported
PCT	Macintosh PICT
PDF	Adobe Acrobat documents	Can read all pages.
PIX	Alias PIX	24 bpp
PNG	Portable Network Graphics	All sub-types supported
PPM	Portable PixMap
PS	Adobe Postscript	First page only
PSD	Adobe PhotoShop Document	RGB, grayscale, duotone, paletted and bi-level Lab color interpreted as grayscale only
PSP	Paint Shop Pro	Version 5 and version 6
Quick-Time^TM	.qtif, .qif, .qfi	Support for Apple QuickTime^TM still image codecs
RAF	Fujifilm RAW
RAS	Sun Raster	Uncompressed and RLE compressed
RAW	Pentax RAW, Leica RAW, Contax RAW, Casio RAW
RSB	Red Storm image format	All sub-types are supported
SGI	SGI Image Format	8-32 bpp; no colormaps; RLE or uncompressed
TGA	Targa TGA	All sub-types supported
TIFF	Tag Image File Format	1/2/4/8/12/16 bits per sample, 1-4 samples per pixel Bilevel/RGB/Paletted/CMYK/YCrCb/LOGL/LOGLUV; Uncompressed/PackBits/LZW//ThunderScan/ SGILog/CCITT/ZIP/NEXT/New-JPEG (no v6.0 JPEG support) Support for multiple-page documents Kodak RAW TIFF, Canon RAW TIFF
WBMP	Wireless Bitmap
WMF	Windows Metafile Format	Win 3.x placeable metafiles
XBM	X bitmap
XPM	X pixmap

Image write support formats

BMP	Windows Bitmap	Windows 1/8/24 bpp
GIF	Graphics Interchange Format	Non-interlaced GIF 89a only
IFF	EA/Amiga Interchange File Format	1-24 bpp, including HAM and HAM8; multiple pages and animations not supported
JP2	JPEG2000
JPEG	JPEG JFIF	8 and 24 bpp. Progressive and baseline; adjustable compression factor, subsampling, smoothing and Huffman code optimization
PCX	ZSoft Publishers Paintbrush	8 and 24 bpp; RLE compressed
PNG	Portable Network Graphics	1/4/8 bpp colormapped; 24 bpp RGB
PSD	Adobeä PhotoShop Document	RGB, grayscale, duotone, paletted and bi-level Lab color interpreted as grayscale only
RAS	Sun Raster	Uncompressed and RLE compressed
RSB	Red Storm image format	All sub-types supported
SGI	SGI Image Format	8-32 bpp; no colormaps; RLE or uncompressed
WBMP	Wireless Bitmap
TGA	Targa TGA	8 and 24 bpp. RLE and uncompressed, top-down and bottom-up
TIFF	Tag Image File Format	1/8/24 bits per pixel, single-page; uncompressed, CCITT3, CCITT4, LZW, Deflate (ZIP), and JPEG compression; Adjustable DPI tags

Archive read support formats

ARJ	ARJ archive	ARJ format
CAB	CAB archive	Microsoft CAB file format
GZ	GZ archive	Unix GZIP (GnuZIP)
LHA	LHA and LZH archives	Lhd, lz4, lh0, lh1, lh4, lh5, lh6, lh7, Lzh
RAR	RAR archive	RAR format
TAR	TAR archive	Unix TAR format
TGZ	TGZ archive	TAR format compressed with GZIP
UU	UU archive	UUEncoded files
ZIP	ZIP archive	Store and Deflate

Archive write support formats

LHA	LHA and LZH archives	Lhd, lz4, lh0, lh1, lh4, lh5, lh6, lh7, Lzh
ZIP	ZIP archive	ZIP format

Video and audio read support formats

AIF	Audio Interchange File Format
AIFC	Audio Interchange File Format
AIFF	Audio Interchange File Format
ASF	Active Streaming File - HoTMetaL Pro
AU	A sound file format used on Sun Microsystems or other UNIX computers
AVI	AVI movie format
GSM	Global System for Mobile Audio
M15	Apple MPEG-1 Video
M1A	Apple MPEG-1/2 Audio
M1V	Apple MPEG-1 Video
M2A	Apple Mpeg-1/2 Audio
M3U	MP3 Playlist files
M75	Apple MPEG-1 Video
MOV	QuickTime movie
MP2	MPEG Layer II compressed audio
MP3	MPEG Layer III compressed audio
MPA	Apple MPEG-1/2 Audio
MPEG	MPEG movie or animation file
MPG	MPEG encoded file
MPV	Apple MPEG-1 Video
QCP	Qualcomm PureVoice
QTPF	QuickTime PreFlight Text
SD2	Sound Designer II
SMI	Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
SMIL	Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
SML	Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
SND	Sound file
SWA	MPEG layer III audio
SWF	Adobe Flash 4
ULW	ULAW - Sun/NeXT
VFW	Video for Windows
WAV	Sound file
WMV	Windows Metafile

ABR & JBR brush files

Buying Laptops Information

Budget

First, I would suggest figuring out how much you would like to spend and give yourself a range. i.e. I would like to spend at least this much and not more than this much.

Platform

First decide if you want to use Windows or Apple Mac. I am not very familiar with Macs, but I can help give you information about Windows based notebooks and some information will apply to Macs.

Here is the kind of the range of prices that laptops fall into....

Lower end notebooks are less than $800.
Middle end notebooks are between $800 - $1400.
High end notebooks are more than $1400.

Now that you have decided on a budget, lets talk about the details of the requirements you need to digital scrapbook on a notebook.

RAM:

For digital scrapbooking I think a must is 2GB RAM but it costs. Spend as much as you can afford. With the latest and greatest Vista, everyone is saying to RUN Vista you need 2GB of RAM. That doesn't even include running your editing programs. So 2GB is the minimum and if you can afford more, go for it.

Processor:

There are 2 main processor types. Intel and AMD. It's nearly impossible to compare Intel and AMD. A while back a few of chatting about AMD & Intel and I gave my opinion on both: [url=http://www.digiscrapinfo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=602]AMD vs. Intel[/url]

The latest thing is the dual processors. There are really 2 processors sitting in the computer running and this obviously has to be faster than 1 processor.

Processor Names to look for:

Intel Core 2 Duo: Intel's latest laptop dual processor chips

Intel has a chart of their processors. I would use the chart in this way cause there is a lot of technical numbers. The higher on the chart the more expensive and better the processor. So look at the laptop and see where it falls in the list

Intel's core 2 chart

AMD Turion 64: AMD's latest laptop dual processor chips

AMD turion uses an easier numbering scheme. The higher the number better. They range from TL-50 - TL-66.

Other names that are lower end or old

Intel Celeron: I think of this as Intel's generic version
AMD Sempron: I think of this as AMD's generic version
and other names are probably older processors

Hard drive:

The size is only important depending on how you use it. I don't think the size is as important if you plan on keeping your stuff externally. If you plan on keeping your stuff on the laptop hard drive then size is important. I configured my laptop and actually selected a 100 Gig hd because my work will be on a external hard drive. Watch for the RPM's though. That is how fast the hard drive spins. The slower it spins the slower your machine. The faster it spins the hotter your laptop will run. Currently, look for 5200rpm which is good tradeoff between speed & heat.

Graphics:

This is another place to spend a lot of money. You get basically two choices. Integrated, which basically means it will share your processor and RAM. Or a video card which will take the work off your processor and may or may not share your RAM. Obviously the second option is better. If you start asking for which video cards, I don't know. My assumption was that if it has a video card its better than integrated. So if you get integrated video card, it is even more important to put on 2GB of RAM ore more because the video card will subtract 1/4 GB of usable RAM.

Screen size:

The larger the better, usually. The 17" is nice. Although I chose to downgrade to a 15". I will be using my laptop as my desktop replacement and won't use it very much away from desk. I have a 20" inch widescreen lcd display that I will hook it up to and do dual monitors. And when I go on scrapbooking retreats I might just pack the monitor up and bring it with so I still have dual screens. If you only plan on using your laptop display as your only monitor, definitely stick with the 17" display if you can afford it.

Other hardware:

Lastly, the rest of the other stuff is pretty much standard. Most have a DVD write drive of some kind. The one thing you might consider is if you have Bluetooth stuff: palm, etc.

Brands:

As for brands, I personally feel like you should stick with name brands. I personally wouldn't recommend a Dell although I have not had one. I have heard many people with Dell issues but then again Dell also offers some of the best deals out there. Sony Viao laptops are good but expensive. I was also looking at HP laptops with very decent prices for what you get. Toshiba's are excellent too. I think Toshiba offers the best value for the high-end requirements you need.

Categorizing your ABR Brushes

If you are having problems with red circles on the folder where your brushes are or you can't assign your brushes to categories. You need to do the following step.

Adobe stores their brushes in a folder in C:\Program Files\Adobe\etc... By default ACDSee excludes the user from organizing anything in the C:\Program Files. So you need to exclude the folder from the exclude list. To do this:

In ACDSee Photo Manager:

Go to Database |Excluded Folders Settings,
Find C:\Program Files and select it.
Choose Remove
Click Close

This will remove program files from the exclude list so its included and then you can categorize it.

Synchronize? How do I backup my data onto another hard drive quickly and efficiently?
Follow this tutorial: Synchronization with ACDSee Photo Manager 9

Create own backup disc of ACDSee Photo Manager

If you want to create your own backup disc of ACDSee Photo Manager in case your computer were to crash, here is how to do:

Open up any text editor, copy your license number into the file and save that document.

Start your Burning CD Software

On the CD to burn, copy the trial exe that you downloaded and your license number document.

Burn the CD.

You now have your own backup. Remind though, periodically ACDSee gives free updates for the current version (That doesn't mean free upgrades to the next version.) and it is a good idea to check on ACDSee's website if they have an updated version of what you are going to install.

How do I change File Associations?

File Associations is your operating system knowing what software to use to open up a particular type of file.

on XP:

This can easily be changed with the following steps:

Open up Windows Explorer
Go to Tools | Folder Options
Click on File Types tab
Scroll till you find the file type you want (JPG, PSD, PNG, etc...) and click on it.
Down below in Details: Click on Change...
From the program list, select the program that you wish to have open this type of file.
At the bottom, select "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file"
Click OK
Repeat Steps 4 - 8 for any other file types you wish to change.

On Vista

How do I change File Extensions on Vista

Using EHDs & CDs/DVDs with ACDSee
ACDSee handles 2 types of media that could be offline (not currently available to use), cds/dvds and external hard drives.

With CDs/DVDs, you go through a process of making it into a Photo CD. What this really does is ACDSee grabs information of each picture off the cd/dvd along with the thumbnail. What this will allow you to do later, when the CD/DVD isn't in your computer is it allows you to browse the contents of the CD/DVD. (That's called Offline Media.) It only shows you thumbnails of what is on the disk and if you try use the image, it will tell you to insert the cd/dvd with the name. You can organize (categorize/tag) the images on the CD/DVD at any time.

With External Hard Drives, EHDs, it is a little different. While the EHD is attached, it allows you to browse the files just like you normally would on your local hard drive. You can then categorize the files as you wish. When your EHD is not connected it the EHD is not browsable. Which means that you won't see it your list of folders nor will you see it where CD/DVD's are in the offline media. So if I don't have my EHD connected I cannot browse folder by folder on my EHD. (You can do this with a CD/DVD that is in offline media.) But what you can do is categorize/tag information on your EHD and view the organized information.

Let me explain with an example:
Let's say, I categorize my previews on my EHD while my EHD connected. Later, I go search for my previews and my EHD is NOT connected. It will show me all my previews that are on my EHD and I can see the thumbnails of all my previews. If I try use the file (or right click and choose Go To File) then it will tell me the EHD is not available and I must connect the EHD before I can access the file.

Screenshots in Vista
If you have windows Vista, you can capture screen shots much more easily using the Snipping Tool included with Vista.

Download link for ACDSee 9 install.

The download link if you need to reinstall ACDSee 9 can be found here:

ACDSee 9 install

File Associations during Install
Yes, ACDSee does want to try "help" you with all your files. I can't remember the exact screen that comes up when you install, but I would suggest this.

Clear all of them.
Add back in Image files: bmp, gif, jp2, jpeg, pic, png, psd, psp, tif, tiff
I would also add back in:
ttf (font files)
PDF (postscript files)
zip & other archive files

If you wanted to change something after the fact go to Tools | File Associates and add more. It's easier to add after the fact than let ACDSee control all your image types though.

Deleting ACDSee Database and starting over.

NOTE: This will delete your database and allow you to start over. Do not do if you are not willing to lose your organization.

If you really want to start fresh with a new database,

Close Photo Manager.
In Version 9 on XP: In Windows Explorer go to this location: "C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\ACD Systems\Catalogs\90"
In Version 10 on XP: In Windows Explorer go to this location: "C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\ACD Systems\Catalogs\100"
In Version 9 on Vista: Go to this location: My Computer, C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\ACD Systems\Catalogs\90
In Version 10 on Vista: Go to this location: My Computer, C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\ACD Systems\Catalogs\100
Right click on "Default" folder and rename it to "oldDefault."
Restart Photo Manager.

You should now have a brand new database to work with!

Tip 1: Make sure you go to YOUR_USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data. There is a YOUR_USER_NAME\Application Data and that is the wrong one...

Tip 2: On XP If you cannot view the Local Settings folder:

click Tools (or View) | Folder Options.

Click the View Tab.

Select Show Hidden Files and Folders.

Click Like Current Folder or Apply to All Folders.

Click Yes.

Click OK.

Tip 3: On Vista If you cannot view the AppData folder:

If you cannot see the menu bar, you have to press the Alt-key on the keyboard and the menu bar should be visible.

click Tools (or View) | Folder Options.

Click the View Tab.

Select Show Hidden Files and Folders.

Click Like Current Folder or Apply to All Folders.

Click Yes.

Click OK.

Categories: How do I install premade category files?

Digital Scrapbooking Organizing Styles

Categories: Where can I find these premade categories?

The following files & instructions will create categories to organize your digital scrapbooking kits. You can use as is, edit them, delete them or rearrange them.

The best time to use the styles is right from the very beginning before you organize.

I would highly recommend picking one style and customizing that one rather than using multiple styles. Using multiple styles might give you a lot of extra categories or duplicate categories.

If you already have started organizing with ACDSee Photo Manager, it will not overwrite anything that you have organized, just add the categories. Here are some pointers.

Backup: I would suggest doing a backup before you add do the following in case you don't like you can just restore your backup.
Delete similar ones: Once the categories are installed you can delete similar ones that you used. (i.e. you used the category "preview" and the style uses "previews", just delete the previews category.) Don't ever delete a category that has anything assigned to it and ACDSee Photo Manager warn you about not doing this. If you were to delete the category with images assigned to it, you would lose your organizing for that category.
Transfer organized data to new style category & delete your old category: If you would like to transfer your cataloged images from one category to another.

Search on your old category,

Select all (ctrl-a)

Bring up the Properties Pane, View | Properties

Select the new category you want them assigned to (VERY IMPORTANT: Do this step first otherwise you will lose your organization.)

Click on the old category that they were assigned to unselect it (VERY IMPORTANT: Make sure you have done the previous step before doing this step)

Delete old category

Instructions on how to use these styles:

Download & save the organizing style categories zip file.
Unzip the file you just downloaded.
Start Photo Manager
Select Database | Import | Database
Select Next
In #1, Select Information from a text file, including any combination of keyword and category definitions and image information
In #2, Select where your category text file is saved.
It is fine to let it optimize database files after import
Select Next
Select Next
Select Finish
Select OK to allow Photo Manager to restart.
You should now have the categories that are listed.

Using Export/Import Feature to transfer Databases to other computers

This is the method to transfer the ACDSee Database (which contains all the organizing from one computer to another)

This is also the recommended way to transfer a database from XP computer to a Vista computer.

I will give 2 names for the computers: original -- which is where the current ACDSee Photo Manager and Database resides that contains all current organization. destination -- which is where you want the ACDSee Database to reside.

On the Original Computer:

Start ACDSee Photo Manager
Before starting, I recommend that you optimize your database
Go to Database | Export | Database... This will start a wizard.
Click Next on the first screen.
Choose Export entire ACDSee Database to a read-only, compressed version
Click Next
In top box, Choose a Destination. This can be on EHD, a network drive or some location that is convenient for the destination computer to access it. In my case, I chose a network drive that is mapped to my shared folder on my desktop and created a folder call "ACDSeeDatabase" to store the files in.
Click Next and Next to start the export.
Click Finish when done.

On the Destination Computer:

Close ACDSee Photo Manager
First delete your database. This will assure a fresh import of the new database. To Do that, follow this help: Deleting ACDSee Database and starting over. Note, you may want to rename the old databases with dates and they can be used as backups. ex. Default_08_06_2007
Open ACDSee Photo Manager. (Expect that all organizing and categories to be gone since you just deleted it.)
Go To Database | Import | Database...
Click Next
Select Import information from a compressed, read-only database
In 2, select the location of where you exported it.
Click the Optimize box
Click Next and Next again to start the import.
In the next step, Database Drive Mapping, this is the point where it is hard to tell you what to choose because each case is different.

For external hard drives that you want to share between 2 computers. You should not have to make any changes, just click Done
If you original computer has the organized files on it's c: drive and you have copied the files to destination computer, then you want to map Incoming Drive: c: -> Local Drive: c: (or wherever you located them) Note: In copying the files, the easiest is to make sure that you copy the files to the exact same folder path.
and I am sure there are many other possible scenarios. Basically this step is Incoming drive (this is where ACDSee thinks the files are) and Local drive (this is where the files are.)
In my example, all my information resides on the EHD's (mainly the S: drive) and I just click Done.

The database will import, optimize and then click Finish.
ACDSee will say it has to restart to finish the import, so click OK
Upon Restarting Verify:

Your categories are back (verifying your organization is there)
In the Organize Pane, search for something and you see expected results (verifying your organization is there)
Click on a thumbnail returned from search and choose Go To File... to see if ACDSee can locate the file (verifying mapping worked)

I want to see what categories are assigned to an image?
Go to: Seeing what categories are assigned to image in ACDSee Photo Manager

Changing Email Settings

Do not select any images.
Go to File | Email Images
Click Next in the wizard.
Select the Options button.
And adjust settings accordingly.
Click Apply
If you are not going to email images, just cancel out of the wizard. The above Apply button will save the changes even if you cancel the wizard.

Returning Duplicate Images because the files are located on multiple drives. How to fix it:

If you copied something within Photo Manager, then Photo Manager may return duplicate images of the same thing.

Examples:

You copied all files from your hard drive to an EHD. Now it is returning duplicates from the hard drive and EHD.
You copied files from one EHD to another EHD. You only plan on using one EHD and the other one is a backup.

This will REMOVE all organizing for the images on whatever folder you select! It will not remove/delete the images (or really files on your hard drive.) It only deletes ACDSee's information about those files in its database.

If you want to remove the duplicates, go to Database | Database Maintenance and let it gather it's information. This may take a while.
Click on the top level folder where you DON'T want the searched images to be returned from. In other words, the top level digital scrapbooking folder of your hard drive on the first example or the top level folder on your backup EHD on the second example.
Then click on Remove All DB Info

Instructions for getting unrecognized EHD to work with ACDSee Photo Manager

Solution 1: Try first because it's easy if it's the problem.

Have you checked the status of excluded folders? Database>Excluded folder settings.

Go to Database -> Exclude Folders
Verify that EHD is not listed in this list. If it is in the list that is your problem. Click on it and select Remove. (So now you really are removing it from the exclude list which means it is being included.) Things should work now.

Solution 2: Give your drive a serial number

If the External hard drive mounts as removable rather than a system drive (some externals do this for some reason... it's pretty hit and miss) or there is no serial available for that drive (or the serial is 0000-0000) then ACDSee won't be able to manage images for that drive.

Directions for Windows XP & Vista.

To determine if this is the problem,

Go to Start -> Accessories -> System Tools -> System Information. This is a neat tool to show info on your whole system.
Click on Components, Storage and Drives. The right window now should show all your drives listed.
Scroll down to find your external hard drive.
You want to find Volume Serial Number for it. If it does have a serial number then this isn't the problem and the rest of the solution will not help. If the serial is zero or Not Available, then carry on with these directions...

I would expect you are seeing this:

System Info for a Seagate EHD:

Drive E:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Volume Name SEA_DISC
Volume Serial Number Not Available

Power up my EHD & keep it on and connected throughout this process.

First you need to go to Microsoft's website and download this small tool: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/VolumeId.mspx
Save it to your desktop.
After downloading it, unzip the file and save the unzipped volumeid.exe to your desktop.
Next bring up Windows Explorer and with your EHD attached see what drive letter it is assigned to. Mine is "S". Yours will most likely be different. Remember the letter.

Previous User Questions:
This won't change what it was before VolumeID, right? Currently my EHD is drive E: and I'm concerned (anxious really) that by doing this, it will reassign that drive to a different letter - and if that happens, won't it affect every file I have on my EHD - in essence they no longer will be there?
ANSWER: This program should not change the drive letter or reassign it. What you are doing is putting a serial number on that drive letter. You should not lose anything.

Shut down any applications you have running.
On XP: Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt.
On Vista: From Start -> All Programs -> Accessories Right-click on the Command Prompt shortcut, and select the Run As Administrator command. This should bring up that lovely black screen where you can type.
On XP: type "cd Desktop" with no quotes and press Enter (the promt should now say: "C:\Documents and Settings\your_user_name_on_computer\Desktop>")
On Vista:type "cd c:\users\your_user_name_on_computer\Desktop" with no quotes and press Enter
Let's verify that you can find the volumeid.exe file. At the prompt, type: "dir volume*" with no quotes and see if volumeid.exe is listed in the results. If it is continue on... If you do not see it, you need to make sure you are in the right folder. Either move the volumeid.exe to the folder you are in using Windows Explorer or type "cd foldername_where_volumeid is in" Repeat "dir volume*" and keep repeating this step until you can see volumeid.exe in the list. For example if you unzipped it and it created a folder, you may need to type "cd volumeid".
Using the VolumeId Tool:

You now want to type something with this formating:
"volumeid driveletter: xxxx-xxxx"

where driveletter is the letter you remember from that previous step.
The xxxx-xxxx are some number that is all not zeros. My understanding is you don't have to a specific number. My ehd has a 9425-0e02. I think you can be creative. So in my case I would type:
"volumeid s: 1234-1234" (do not type quotes)

After a successful attempt you should get something like this:

			C:\>volumeid s: 1234-1234
			
			 
			
			
			VolumeID V2.01 - Set disk volume id
			Copyright (C) 1997-1999 Mark Russinovich
			Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
			
			
			Volume ID for drive s: updated to 1234-1234

At this point, your computer may be respond with errors if you try to access the ehd.
Exit the C prompt by typing "exit" (do not type quotes) and pressing enter.
Reboot as normal. Start -> turn off computer -> reboot.
Hopefully after reboot, ACDSee should recognize your EHD and you should be able to catalog.

Adobe PE Organizer/Picassa/DIS 2006 to ACDSee Photo Manager: A way to transfer your digital kits from a previous organizer to ACDSee and lose as little as possible.
Transferring your digital kit library from a previous album organizer that uses tags. i.e. Adobe's photo organizer, Picassa, DIS

Be forewarned that you will lose some organization. All the organization should come with your .jpg files. You will lose all your organization from your .png files.

In Adobe photo organizer, select all your images (or something like that.) I don't have this program so I don't know. Chose File -> Write Tag Info to File In other organizers you might be lucky to have this information automatically written to your files. In Picassa and DIS you do not need to anything in this step.
In ACDSee Photo Manager, let ACDSee catalog the images. This will not change anything, it will not do anything to the files, will not move anything, etc. It will only go grab the thumbnails for quicker viewing and the information about the files. This is information written to the file by your camera or by other programs. If you haven't done this, choose Database | Catalog Files

If your pictures are in My Pictures Folder, select the first top choice Catalog the My Pictures Folder.
If not, select the second choice, Catalog a specific set of folders. Choose Remove Folder and remove any previous folders in there, then click on Add Folder and specify the directory you wish to catalog. In Advanced Options, verify Import Exif & IPTC metadata is checked. The bottom two should be checked also. Click Next and it should start cataloging the images. If you have large amount of images, go grab a nap....

Once ACDSee Photo Manager is done cataloging......
Now create the same Categories as you used previously (or you can make modifications if you wish) in ACDSee. See Getting Started Tutorial for how to create categories.
Now get the Organize Pane (View | Organize) and the Properties Pane (View | Properties) Notice that at the bottom of those panes, you should see the Organize Tab and Properties - Database Tab. To switch between the 2, just click on the tab that you want.
In the Organize Pane:

In Auto Categories section

Expand Photo Properties
Expand Keywords (IPTC) (for Organizer & Picassa)
Expand Keywords (EXIF) (for DIS)
Click on the first keyword. This will find all your images with that keyword.

Select all of the results: Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-a

In the Properties Pane

Click on the box next to the category that matches your keyword and assign that category to your images.

You would then repeat these steps for how many keywords or categories you created.

If you have questins, please post your questions here: Transfering Organizing from Adobe Photo Organizer to ACDSee

Starting out? Wondering how to get started with ACDSee Photo Manager 9?

We recommend this tutorial first:
Getting Started with ACDSee Photo Manager

Then continue on reading with:

Organizing your Alphabets with ACDSee Photo Manager 9
and
Easily add Designer and Kit Name

and after you done with that, browse the rest of the tutorials to see what you can do with ACDSee Photo Manager 9.

And here are some Digital Scrapbooking Categories to get you started:

.pspimage files: Having problems with viewing .pspimage files (Corel PSP images)?

Solution: Rename the files with the .psp extension. You can easily do this with the ACDSee PhotoManager Batch Rename Tool.

How to Search:

Select View | Search and follow the screenshot:

To Rename images, select all pspimage files

Choose Tools | Batch Rename and follow the screenshot:

How to Move Organized Images (photos or digital kits) with ACDSee

If they are already organized with ACDSee it is important to move them inside ACDSee so ACDSee always knows where they are.

To Move all the digital kits over to the EHD by clicking on main folder containing all your digital kits and choose Move To Folder.
Then browse in the Folders window to select the destination where you would like the images to be moved to.
Choose OK. The files should be moved along with their organization.

Using Fonts with ACDSee

See this Fonts: How can I view them?

Changing Font Text with for your fonts

See this help:

ACDSee Photo Manager can change the sample text of your font.

Using Uninstalled fonts with ACDSee Photo Manager and your editor.

To view your fonts see this help: Fonts: How can I view them?

See our blog post on using uninstalled fonts; How to use Uninstalled Fonts in your scrapbooking program

Fonts: How can I view them?

Just go select your directory where you have downloaded the fonts and you should see something like this. And if you can see them in ACDSee, you can go create a category for Fonts and start organizing them.

Also, installed windows Fonts are kept in "C:\Windows\Fonts" NOTE This is important systems folder. DO NO MOVE IT or you will lose all fonts and create a very unhappy computer.

To be able to view this font folder, go to Database>Excluded Folder Settings
When you click on that, it will bring up a box with the locations of all excluded folders.
Find the "c:\windows" Folder, click on that line, then click on Remove.
That will remove that folder from the excluded list.
Wait to do this until you have started ACDSee and cataloged your digital kits. (Or just skip this step.) There is no need to catalog c:\windows.
Lastly, to easily get to your fonts folder, In the folders pane (View | Folders) browse to c:\windows\font.
Select the folder and right click on it and select Add to Favorites.
Now you can easily go see your Fonts directory by using your favorites panes (View | Favorites)

If you have questions please post your questions here: Viewing Fonts with ACDSee Photo Manager

How can I find the files that I haven't organized?

Seeing Uncategorized files by folder:

To find all images you haven't categorized, Choose Filter By | Uncategorized.
Then in the folders pane, click on a folder where you want to see anything you haven't categorized. If you want to see multiple folders, click on the boxes next to each folder.

Remember to turn off the filter after done by going to Filter By | All otherwise your images that you have organized will not reappear.

Seeing ALL uncategories files:

Go to View | Organize Pane
Scroll down till you find Special Items
Expand Special Items
Click on Uncategorized

Scrapbook Max files, Can I view them with ACDSee?

You can view some of the Scrapbook max files with them. You can view embellishments, masks, and other files that are in the standard png and jpg format. You cannot view the template files, these are files that end with .stm.

The folder where Scrapbook Max stores its images is here:

C:\Program Files\Scrapbook MAX!\Gallery\Images

Rather than browse to this folder everytime you want to access it, here is a way to access it quickly:

Inside ACDSee Photo Manager, browse to this folder " C:\Program Files\Scrapbook MAX!\Gallery\Images"
In the Folders pane (usually top right in ACDSee), right click on the Images folder and choose Add to Favorites
Type in the name for the shortcut like "Scrapbook Max Images"
Click OK
This will create a shortcut to the folder

To access it quickly:

Go to View | Favorites
Click on the "Scrapbook Max Images" folder and you should be able to see the images.

If you wish to assign categories to anything in this folder, you must remove Program Files from the exclude list.

Go to Database | Excluded Folders Settings
Find C:\Program Files
Click Remove
Click Close

Getting Started with Photo Editor? Start here....

Introducing Digital Scrapbooking and doing your first layout tutorial:

For getting started try this tutorial first: Your First Layout with ACDSee Photo Editor Part 1 & Your First Layout with ACDSee Photo Editor Part 2

Installing Digital Scrapbooking How-tos:

Install some Digital Scrapbooking specific How-tos: ACDSee Photo Editor Built-in How-tos

More Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking tasks:

Ready to move on, here are common scrapbook functions and how to do them in ACDSee Photo Editor: Basic Scrapbooking Functions in ACDSee Photo Editor

Some Video Tutorials

Want to see Photo Editor in action? Here are some video tutorials:

Need Photo Editor Tutorials?

Please go to this page for a list of tutorials and resources available for Photo Editor:

Photo Editor Creative Digital Scrapbooking Tutorials

Installing Digital Scrapbooking How-tos?

Want to install Digital Scrapbooking How-tos?

Please see this page:

ACDSee Photo Editor Built-in How-tos

Ghosting in ACDSee Photo Editor?

Are some of your elements causing a ghosting effect. You see remnants of the element but the element isn't really there?

Solution

Go to View | Refresh

Keyboard shortcut F5

Unable to open an apd file in ACDSee Photo Editor

Sometimes a file is quite large and takes a lot of resources. If you are getting an error saying it can't or won't open an apd file from ACDSee Photo Editor, try these things:

Solution 1:

Close Photo Editor
Restart Photo Editor
Use File | Open to open the file (Do not use recent files at the bottom of the File menu, dragging & dropping them into Photo Editor, or opening from another program.)

Solution 2:

Close Photo Editor
Close all other programs
Restart Photo Editor
Use File | Open to open the file (Do not use recent files at the bottom of the File menu, dragging & dropping them into Photo Editor, or opening from another program.)

Solution 3:

Close Photo Editor
Close all other programs
Reboot
Start Photo Editor
Use File | Open to open the file (Do not use recent files at the bottom of the File menu, dragging & dropping them into Photo Editor, or opening from another program.)

Undo an incorrectly categorized image?

If one image:

Right click on thumbnail, choose Set Categories

Option A: To clear all tags, select Uncategorize all Selected Items
Option B: To clear 1 tag, just go to the wrong tag and select it and it will unselect it.

If one or more images:

Click on the thumbnail or multiple thumbnails,
bring up your properties pane (View | Properties)
Find the tag and unselect the box next to the tag you don't want.

Can you use this program on a Mac?

ACDSee Photo Manager doesn't work on Mac's.

If you have a recent Mac, you may be able to run Parallels on your Mac. This allows you to run Windows software and Mac Software at the same time. It requires you to purchase Parallels and Windows Operating System. For more info see:

Parallels Desktop for Mac

Here is a list of other Mac organizing software but I no guarantees on how well they work:

Other Resources:

Here is a recent thread where I pulled the Mac list above:
DST My head is spinning, how you do you fellow Mac users organize your products?
Blog that says she has info on Mac Organizing:
Digi Scrap Mac
Thread on Shoebox at DST

No transitions coming up in ACDSee Pro or ACDSee 9 when creating a slideshow?

Right click on computers desktop and go to Properties.
Choose the Settings tab and click on the Advanced button.
Select TroubleShooting tab.
Slide the “Hardware Acceleration” bar to the 3rd mark from the left.

Categories: Where can I find these premade categories?

Organizing Styles can be seen & downloaded here

Your are here:

DigiScrapInfo FAQ - The five questions posted most recently:

Directions on working on 2 computers with a external hard drive between them:

First Possible Solution:

Second Possible Solution:

Manual Registry Editing steps:

or the ACDSee provided registry tool:

If it still continues to be troublesome (won't open), please visit this thread:

on XP:

on Vista:

Old Computer -> New Computer:

On your old computer:

On your new computer:

For the standard user that isnt sharing databases between multiple computers via EHD

For the users, that have their database stored on their EHD and upgrading from ACDSee 9 to ACDSee 10, on multiple computers, please follow these specific directions:

In case of errors:

Budget

Platform

Here is the kind of the range of prices that laptops fall into....

RAM:

Processor:

Hard drive:

Graphics:

Screen size:

Other hardware:

Brands:

on XP:

On Vista

Solution 1: Try first because it's easy if it's the problem.

Solution 2: Give your drive a serial number

Directions for Windows XP & Vista.

If they are already organized with ACDSee it is important to move them inside ACDSee so ACDSee always knows where they are.

Seeing Uncategorized files by folder:

Seeing ALL uncategories files:

Introducing Digital Scrapbooking and doing your first layout tutorial:

Installing Digital Scrapbooking How-tos:

More Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking tasks:

More Written Tutorials

Some Video Tutorials

Solution

Solution 1:

Solution 2:

Solution 3:

If one image:

If one or more images:

Edit and actions menu

For the standard user that isnt sharing databases between multiple computers via EHD