User Guide

Adding a file description in Details view mode

You can add or edit a file description in the Details view mode of the File list.

To add or edit a file description in Details view mode:

1. Double-click the Description cell of a file.

2. Type a description.

3. Click OK.

You can turn off this feature so that it is not possible to edit the

description in the Details view mode in the Options dialog box. Click

Tools | Options, and on the Managing Files page of the Options dialog

box, clear the Click to edit file name check box.

Adding the same description to a group of files

You can add a description to more than one file at the same time.

To add the same description to a group of files:

1. Select one or more files.

2. Do one of the following:

• Select Edit | Describe.

• Right-click the file and select Describe.

3. Check Apply to all at the bottom of the dialog box.

4. Type a description.

5. Click OK.

• It is not possible to attach descriptions to files that reside on

read-only file systems such as a CD-ROM.

• ACDSee file descriptions are used by some applications (such as

JPSoft’s 4DOS/4NT), but are not supported directly by Windows.