User Guide

Chapter 4: Viewing
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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:
x If Device Detector is active, follow the steps to create an ACDSee Photo Disc.
x If Device Detector is not active, click File | New, and then select Photo Disc.
3. In the New Disc dialog box, type a name for your disc in the Title field, and then click OK.
4. You can then browse the contents of the Photo Disc in the Offline Media section of the
Folders pane.
If you add or remove images from a disc that you have already added to ACDSee as
a Photo Disc, you can update the information stored in the database. Insert the disc
in your CD-ROM drive, and then right-click the name of the disc in the Folders pane
and select Update Photo Disc.
By default, ACDSee identifies Photo Discs by their serial numbers. This is the most reliable
setting to use when working with Photo Discs, particularly if you are importing or converting
Photo Discs from previous versions of ACDSee.
However, if you are working with, or planning to work with, multi-session discs, the serial
number may be regenerated or changed each time you change the contents of a disc.
Therefore, the volume label is the required method of identification for multi-session Photo
Discs.
Rebinding Photo Discs
Depending on the method used to identify Photo Discs, ACDSee may encounter a Photo Disc
that it does not recognize. This is most common when you are using the serial number method
to identify Photo Discs and you insert a multi-session disc. ACDSee may not recognize the disc,
as serial numbers are likely to change when updating a multi-session disc.
You can use the Rebind option to update the identification information, and associate the
correct database information with your disc.
To rebind a Photo Disc to its ACDSee database information:
1. In the Rebind Photo Disc dialog box, carefully review the Current disc information to be
sure that the correct disc is in the drive.
2. Select the Photo Disc record that you want to rebind to the current disc from the Photo
Disc Name list.
3. Click Rebind.