User Guide

Chapter 6: Organizing
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To import the information from Photo Discs created with ACDSee 6.0 or later, you
must convert and import the entire database.
Importing albums
In previous versions of ACDSee, you could create albums in an .ais file format that consisted of
organized shortcuts to your images. Now you can use categories to create albums of images
that do not require a separate file extension. You can, however, import your albums from
previous versions of ACDSee, and add the information from the albums to the database.
ACDSee creates a new category for each album you import.
To import album information into the database:
1. Click Database | Import, and then select Album.
2. In the Open dialog box, select the .ais file you want to import.
3. Click Open.
Working with descript.ion files
In previous versions of ACDSee, file descriptions were stored in a separate descript.ion file in
each folder that contained images. ACDSee now stores file descriptions as captions in the
database, along with other file information such as notes and keywords.
You can use the Descript.ion tools to import your old descript.ion files and add the information
to the database, or export your existing file captions to a descript.ion file.
To import a descript.ion file:
1. Click Database | Import, and then select Descript.ion File.
2. In the Open dialog box, locate and select the descript.ion file you want to import.
3. Click Open.
To export captions to a descript.ion file:
1. Click Database | Export, and then select Decript.ion File.
2. In the Save As dialog box, type a name for the descript.ion file in the File name field.
3. Click Save.
Exporting database information
You can use the ACD Database Export Wizard to save selected database information in a
compressed format, and then store it as a backup, or share it with other ACDSee users. You
can also choose to export your category and keyword definitions to a text file.
Exporting your database information differs from creating a backup in that you can choose to
export only the parts of your database that you want to share or store with specific files, such
as those on a CD. Other ACDSee users can import your information without affecting their
existing database.