User Guide

Chapter 13 Customizing
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Setting the Database options
You can adjust settings in the ACDSee Options dialog box to display reminders, control database
information, and specify a location on your hard drive where you want to store your database files and
cached thumbnails.
To set the database options:
1Click To ols | Options, and then click Database.
2 On the Database page, set or change the options as described below.
3Click OK to apply your changes and return to ACDSee.
Database options
Database location Specifies the location on your hard drive to store the ACDSee
database. Click the Browse button to locate a folder.
Display backup
reminder
Automatically reminds you to back up your ACDSee database. Click
the Every drop-down list and select how often you would like to be
reminded.
Excluded Folders Opens the Excluded Folders List dialog box, where you can specify
which folders you want to exclude from the ACDSee database.
Set database date Automatically adds the date of files to the ACDSee database when
you catalog the contents of a folder. Select one of the following to
specify which date you want to store as the database date:
•Exif date
• File modified date
• Specific date (Select the date you want to use in the drop-down
list.)
Import Exif and IPTC
metadata from
cataloged files
Automatically imports Exif and IPTC information into the ACDSee
database whenever you catalog the contents of a folder.
If this option if not selected, ACDSee will not import the Exif and IPTC
information, but will still set aside space within the database records.
To remove the empty records, be sure to optimize your database
frequently.
Show separator conflict
dialog for IPTC
keywords
Displays the IPTC Keywords dialog box when a separator conflict
occurs. You can specify a method of handling conflicts within the
dialog and elect not to display it again. Select this option to change
or adjust those settings the next time a separator conflict occurs.