User Guide

Chapter 9 Organizing
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Maintaining the database
It is recommended that you regularly perform database maintenance and optimization to increase
hard drive space, remove redundant or extraneous information, and increase overall ACDSee
performance.
You can use the tools in the Database Maintenance dialog box to update folders, or to identify folders
whose thumbnails and database information you would like to delete. The Database Maintenance
dialog box displays a list of the folders on your system, and uses icons to indicate the status of
database information within specific folders.
Database content icons
To perform database maintenance:
1Click Database, and then select Database Maintenance.
2 In the Database Maintenance dialog box, browse for folders marked with the database content
icons. If there are no marked folders, you do not need to perform database maintenance and can
exit the Database Maintenance dialog box.
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 All DB Info: Deletes all database 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• Remove Orphan Folders: Deletes any out-of-date or broken references to missing files or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.
5Click Close.
Folder contains files with cached thumbnails stored in the database.
Folder contains files that were changed without a database update. For example, a folder
or file was renamed or moved outside of ACDSee.