User Guide

Chapter 9 Organizing
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To import a Photo Disc:
1Click Database | Import, and then select Photo Disc.
2 In the Browse for Photo Disc dialog box, locate and select the photo disc file you want to import.
3Click Open.
Importing albums
In previous versions of ACDSee, you could create albums in an .ais file format that consisted of
organized shortcuts to your images. Now you can use categories to create albums of images that do
not require a separate file extension. You can, however, import your albums from previous versions of
ACDSee, and add the information from the albums to the database. ACDSee creates a new category
for each album you import.
To import album information into the database:
1Click Database | Import, and then select Album.
2 In the Open dialog box, select the .ais file you want to import.
3Click Open.
Working with descript.ion files
In previous versions of ACDSee, file descriptions were stored in a separate descript.ion file in each
folder that contained images. ACDSee now stores file descriptions as captions in the database, along
with other file information such as notes and keywords.
You can use the Descript.ion tools to import your old descript.ion files and add the information to the
database, or export your existing file captions to a descript.ion file.
To import a descript.ion file:
1Click Database | Import, and then select Descript.ion File.
2 In the Open dialog box, locate and select the descript.ion file you want to import.
3Click Open.
To export captions to a descript.ion file:
1Click Database | Export, and then select Decript.ion File.
2 In the Save As dialog box, type a name for the descript.ion file in the File name field.
3Click Save.
To import the information from Photo Discs created with ACDSee 6.0 or later, you
must convert and import the entire database.