User Guide

ACDSee™ Pro User Guide
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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You can use the Optimize Database Wizard to quickly remove redundant or outdated database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.
To optimize your database:
1 In the Browser, click Database | Optimize Database.
2 In the Database Optimization Wizard, click Next.
3 When the wizard has finished, click Finish to return to ACDSee.
Rebuilding thumbnails
Situations can develop in which your images will be out of sync with the thumbnail images displayed
in the File List pane. You can use the Rebuild Thumbnails tool to immediately regenerate the
thumbnails for selected images.
To rebuild thumbnails:
1 Do one of the following:
• Select one or more thumbnails in the File List pane.
• Select a folder in the Folders pane.
2Click Database | Rebuild Thumbnails.
Quarantining files
If ACDSee has trouble reading a corrupted or incomplete image or media file, or a file causes a plug-in
to generate an error, ACDSee will quarantine that file. You can view a list of quarantined files, and
remove a file from the list.
To view quarantined files:
1Click Database | Quarantined 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.
4Click OK to close the Quarantine Files dialog box and return to ACDSee.