Great post - but my question is when you run it in Parallels will it pick up the files on the MAC side? I know this may sound unintelligent but I am looking at buying a MAC and wondered if my ACDSee would be able to work on it…

Yep, I think so but I haven’t done it myself. Here is what the feature says:
“Drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste between OS X and Windows.”
Which says yes to me.

Parallels is a great product, and “technically” you can run ACDSee through it, but unfortunately, ACDSee really bogs down to the point of being non-productive, especially when running PS simultaneously. I was hoping there might be brighter news, but I’ll continue to use Shoebox until I hear ACDSee comes out with a Mac version. Thanks for providing an update

I am new to Mac, I got my MacBook less than 2 months after buying ACDSee. Since FotoFusion is my main scrapping software, which is only available for windows, and my pscs would have to be upgraded to pscs3 before I could trade it for the Mac version, I have set up VMware Fusion along with WinXP on my Mac OS 10.5 system. I have my digiscrap files loaded into folders that are set up to be seen by both the windows and Mac operating systems. I have not done the category set up yet, just got my files loaded on the other day, but I have played a bit. I plan to use iPhoto for my photos and ACDSee for my digiscrap supplies with a few ‘Smart Folders’ set up in Finder. I am pleased to report that I can easily select a photo in iPhoto and drag it into my FotoFusion LO or Photoshop. Copy/paste works between the OSs too. One ‘Smart Folder’ calls up all “folder.jpg” file which is, essentially, my kit previews. Another ‘Smart Folder’ calls up jpg files that are 3600 pixels, my papers. And another is for psd files which are located in my Scrap folder, my layered templates. All of the Smart Folders only look in my Scrap/Elements folder so it doesn’t search my entire computer. Someday it would be fab to have a Mac version of ACDSee and be able to upgrade my photoshop to switch that to Mac as well. But, alas, I fear there is not future Mac version of FotoFusion on the horizon. So it looks like I will be straddling the fence for a while.

I am new to mac and have used ACDSee since the first edition since 92 or something, i looked up every App i used on my PC before i even buyed my Mac in i found that there is a MAC version of ACDSee.

Hav not tried it yet, but maybe you can tell us if its a good program, but i guess the PC version is more advanced at present day.

Good luck!

The Mac version of ACDSee that you found is a shareware program. And yes, it’s older. ACDSee hasn’t created a newer version in quite awhile for the Mac.

Sorry about that,

I had been using ACDsee since version 3 and loved it; I have been enjoying the upgrades as well.
I have switched to MacBook Pro and iMac since last month. Aperture does everything ACDSee Pro does better and more efficiently. Once you are used to the interface,there is no turning back. It is tightly integrated with Mac OS X and iPhoto. There are discounts with Mac software that will bring the cost of Aperture down (ie. if you work for local or federal government, 17% discount on ALL Mac software, students 12% on software etc).

With the integration of iPhoto and development of Aperture, it is not worth the effort to port ACDSee to the new Mac platform. I hope this helps……….best of luck.

PS. if you like the Adobe products, Lighroom 2 is the latest digital darkroom from Adobe. I have used this product as well and still like Aperture more. It is $100 more expensive than Aperture with same functionality. it has few more features, but not for the premium it charges and it does not integrate into the Mac OS X as well, not it interacts with iPhoto.