
ACDSee Pro 6 User Guide
1. In the Keyword group, on the Organize tab, select Manage Quick Keywords from the drop-down menu. The Quick
Keywords dialog box opens.
2. Enter up to nine associated or commonly-used keywords into the open fields. To create a hierarchy within a field, use the
pipe key. Example: A|B|C.
3. Click the Save button and choose a name for your set. Click OK.
4. To create another set, select Manage Quick Keywords from the drop-down menu. Alter the fields as you like and then
click Save. Choose Save As. Click OK.
5. Apply keywords from your set by selecting a file.
6. Select the applicable keyword from the Quick Keywords Table.
7. A dialog will open asking if you would like to create this keyword. Click Yes. The keyword will be added to the tree. If you
specified a hierarchy in the keyword set, the parent keyword will appear in the tree with the child under it. The text of the
keywords in the table will change color to indicate that the keyword is assigned to the currently selected files, and will
display in italics if assigned to only some (but not all) of the currently selected files.
Copying and Moving Files
You can use the Copy To Folder and Move To Folder commands to relocate files and folders on your hard drive, and specify how to
handle overwriting existing files. You can also select from a list of previously accessed folders to save time looking through your
directory structure.
When you use ACDSee Pro to relocate your files, by default any ACDSee Metadata associated with those files is copied to the
new location. However, if you do not want to copy the associated files, clear the Include related files for non-RAW
images check box.
When you do NOT use ACDSee Pro to move or copy your files, you break the link to any database information you have
added to those files. This is because ACDSee Pro cannot track the files. You will lose important categorizing and other
database information. You can fix this by clicking Change Binding and rebinding the database. If you have embedded the
database information in the files themselves, you can also retrieve this information using Tools | Database | Catalog
Files.
ACDSee Pro uses XMP to embed ACDSee Metadata into each file. Only some file formats and file extensions support XMP.
These include GIF, JPEG, DNG, PNG, and TIF. In the case of these file formats, the ACDSee Metadata is embedded inside the
file and so you can rename or move the file outside of ACDSee Pro and still be able to retrieve the ACDSee Metadata. For
formats that currently do not support XMP, including RAW, PSD, ABR, the ACDSee Metadata is written to a sidecar file that
is stored in the same folder as its file. Because a sidecar file is separate from the file itself, you need to rename or move
them together, or you could lose the ACDSee Metadata permanently.
To copy or move files:
1. Do one of the following:
In the File List pane, select one or more files, and then click Edit | Copy To Folder or Move To Folder.
While viewing an image or media file in View mode, click Edit | Copy To Folder or Move To Folder.
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