User Guide

Chapter 3: Manage mode
Optimizing the database
You can use the Optimize Database Wizard to quickly remove redundant or outdated database records. Optimizing your database,
along with performing regular database maintenance, helps regain hard drive space and improves the overall performance of
ACDSee 12.
If you are cataloging large numbers of files regularly, it is helpful to optimize weekly, or after an extended cataloging
session. This is also a good time to backup the database.
To optimize your database:
1. In Manage mode, click Tools | Database | Optimize Database.
2. In the Database Optimization Wizard, click Next.
3. Select one or both of the following:
Optimize the database tables and fields: Removes obsolete information from the database, reduces the space used
by database fields, and re-indexes the tables.
Remove orphans from database: Removes any orphan database entries, caused by files or folders deleted by other
programs.
4. Click Next.
5. When the wizard has finished, click Finish to return to ACDSee 12.
Rebuilding thumbnails and metadata
Situations can develop in which your images will be out of sync with the thumbnail images displayed in the File List pane and the
embedded metadata. You can use the Rebuild Thumbnails and Metadata tool to immediately regenerate the thumbnails for selected
images and rebuild the metadata.
To rebuild thumbnails:
1. In Manage mode, do one of the following:
Select one or more thumbnails in the File List pane.
Select a folder in the Folders pane.
2. Click Tools | Database | Rebuild Thumbnails and Metadata.
Quarantined files
If ACDSee 12 has trouble reading a corrupted or incomplete image or media file, or a file causes a plug-in to generate an error,
ACDSee 12 will quarantine that file. You can view a list of quarantined files, and remove a file from the list.
To view quarantined files:
1. In Manage mode, click Tools | Database | Quarantine Files.
2. To remove a file, select it in the list, and then click Remove.
3. To disable the Quarantine feature, clear the Enable Quarantine check box.
4. Click OK to close the Quarantine Files dialog box and return to ACDSee 12.
Plug-ins
Working with plug-ins
A plug-in is a software module that adds functionality to a larger program. ACDSee 12 comes standard with many different plug-ins.
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