Auto-Cataloging?

[Ted]

Hi all,

Okay... I have YET ANOTHER QUESTION about ACDSee. Sorry!

With PSE Organizer, when I add a picture to one of my computer folders, I get a message in PSE Organizer, "New pictures have been found! Would you like to organize them?" or something like that. :)

Is there a way to set up ACDSee to be the same way?

Basically, I want to be able to edit/add photos, etc... and have ACDSee let me know there are new files found and ask me what I want to do with them each time they're added.

Does that make sense? :)

[faerywings]

Hi Ted- it looks like you posted at the adcsee product forums. I don't know if you have seen Marc's answer but this is what he wrote, in case anyone else was wondering.ACDSee does not have a "watched folders" feature I am aware of. Normally, you'd use ACDSee to do the importing of new images from your camera, and it will do the cataloging it needs to do then. If for some reason you have a situation where you need to use a different program to add the files to your hard drive, then you can simply browse to that folder with ACDSee and it will catalog the files automatically. If it's something you do regularly for some reason, then you might want to make sure all the files that get added get added into the same place, and then you could just run Catalog Files on that folder periodically to find new files. But again, normally, you would use ACDSee to do the importing, so the issue wouldn't come up.

http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/auto-cataloging-1

What I do is I have a folder named _To Be Tagged (The underscore keeps it at the top of my folder tree). Everything new- all of my zip files etc,. goes into that folder. I'll unzip them right there and they stay in that folder until I am done tagged them. Then I move them, in PM, to whatever folder they "belong" in.

:)

[Ted]

Hi there and thanks so much for quoting them for me! :)

Yes, I saw that on their site, and it makes sense to me... for new files.

I was talking about the following:

1. Opening an existing file.
2. Modifying it.
3. Saving it as a new file...

Their suggestion wouldn't work because I'd have to save it in a different folder and then tag it. I reckon I could do that, but that seems like more work.

I do like that feature in PSE's Organizer, however. :)