User Guide

Chapter 6 Viewing
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Synchronizing the Viewer to a folder
You can use the Sync to Folder option to change the images being displayed in the Viewer. If you sync
ACDSee to the folder used by your newsreader, images downloaded into the folder are displayed in
the Viewer automatically.
To synchronize to a folder:
1 In the Viewer window, click Tools | Sync To Folder.
2 Type the path to the folder you want to synchronize, or click the Browse button to locate the
folder.
3 Select or change the New Images options as described below.
4Click OK.
All images in the folder are displayed as a slide show in the Viewer. As you add or remove images from
the folder, the slide show updates automatically.
New Images options
To stop synchronizing to a folder:
In the Viewer, click Tools | Sync To Folder.
Viewing offline images
ACDSee stores thumbnails and database information for images contained on CDs or other
removable media as Photo Discs. You can then browse the thumbnails and view the information for
those images even when the disc is not in your CD-ROM drive.
To add a Photo Disc:
1 Place a disc containing images into your CD-ROM drive.
2 Do one of the following:
• If Device Detector is active, follow the steps to create an ACDSee Photo Disc.
• If Device Detector is not active, click File | New, and then select Photo Disc.
Show new image(s)
immediately
Displays images as soon as they appear in the folder. If this option is
cleared, new images are added to the end of the slide show.
Ignore open files Delays adding a new file to the slide show until the transferring
application has finished moving or downloading the file.
Sort by name Sorts the images displayed in the slide show by their file name.