User Guide

Chapter 3: Manage mode
3. Select a folder and click one of the following buttons to identify the maintenance you want to perform on that folder:
Remove Thumbnails: Removes all thumbnail information for the selected folder.
Remove Database Information and Thumbnails: Deletes all database and thumbnail information for the selected
folder.
Remove Orphan Folders: Deletes any out-of-date or broken references to missing files or information for the selected
folder. It is only possible to check for orphans in folders located on your computer. This option will not be visible if the
folder is located on a network.
Change Binding: Changes all location references for the selected orphaned folder to another folder, and retains all
database information. The default binding folder is My Pictures.
4. The Database Maintenance tool will delete records, creating unused space in your database. To reclaim the unused space,
click Optimize Database, and follow the instructions in the wizard.
5. Click Close.
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You can use the Optimize Database Wizard to quickly remove redundant or outdated database records.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 Pro.
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 Pro.
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 Pro has trouble reading a corrupted or incomplete image or media file, or a file causes a plug-in to generate an error,
ACDSee Pro will quarantine that file. You can view a list of quarantined files, and remove a file from the list.
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