Start off the New Year with backing up!
January 2nd, 2008 by HeidiAre you running ACDSee Photo Manager? Did you know that on a regular basis that you should be running an Optimize function? This will clean things up and make ACDSee run faster. I would run it as often as you back up, in fact, I would run it right after you backup. Here’s how: Optimize your ACDSee Database
And backing up your ACDSee Photo Manager organizing is just as important. First, set the reminder to remind you to backup! I would suggest weekly if your are organizing frequently: Remember to back up the ACDSee Photo Manager Database
And if the weekly reminder comes up and I know I haven’t done anything then I just skip doing it and it will remind me next week. But it doesn’t take long, so backup! Here’s how: Backing up ACDSee Photo Manager
Now when you backup, make sure you save the backup off your internal hard drive, like a EHD or CD or DVD. If you are one of those people that run with your ACDSee Database on your EHD, then save your backup back to your internal hard drive (and not on your EHD.)
So that has ACDSee’s organizing and database backed up. What about all those images, layouts, & digital kits! That is another task in itself. This really depends on the size & cost you want to invest. But here is some information to get you going: Wondering how to backup your digital kits, photos and layouts
So go Optimize & Backup ACDSee Photo Manager and then make sure you backing up your images. Remember a backup isn’t a backup unless you have 2 (or more) duplicate copies of the same file on different disks/media.
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Jan 2, 2008 - 12:01:29Thanks so much for the great reminder. This was just what I planned w/ a new hard drive under the tree! One question, I am backing up my entire scrap folder currently on my computer to my small portable external 250, this is all my kits/photos/layouts etc… hoping to speed up my Photoshop program by doing so. Also for the protection of course. Do I need to also back up my database to my external or is it best to keep that on my computer? I also do entire backups periodically to a non-portable EHD 350 of my entire computer. I am trying to make sure I am backing up what would be needed. Do you run your database off the EHD? Or just back it up to the EHD. Wanting to start 2008 with a better system.
Much thanks!
Hi Digimom3boys
I have my ACDSee database on my computer and backup my database to the EHD drive. Which sounds like what you are doing. My main recommendation is to make sure you backup your database to a drive where it doesn’t reside at. So in case one drive crashes you have it on another.
Heidi, Thanks! I think I am trying to over complicate this but gotta ask. I am downloading to a “scrapbooking file”, then unzipping to a “wating to be tagged file” then transfering to a “tagged w/ACDSEE file” once tagged. Now I have backed up my entire “scrapbooking file” as it contains all of the above files. Do I still need to backup database too ? Am I understanding that this is where the TAGS are actually located? So should I be doing both or just backup the database to the EHD and then anything else in the “scrapbooking file” that may not be “TAGGED” in the ACDSEE database, like my photos? Does that make sense? I know that everyone has to develop their own system, but when getting started I feel like I just need to follow someone else, until I am understanding enough to spread my downloads! Thanks again!!
Hi DigiMom3boys
The tags are really in your ACDSee Database. So do Database | Backup Database and then save that file off on another drive (EHD, cd, dvd, second drive, network, etc.) This will save all your organization. If for some reason you need to restore, you have your files in “scrapbooking file” and your database and those are the two things necessary if you had to recover.