Backing up ACDSee Photo Manager, a tip

It seems lately that I have worked with a few people that they had backed up their ACDSee and still had issues.  So today I was going to suggest what options you should back up with.

First, backing up ACDSee is really backing up all the organizing information that you have done.  This information is not stored with the files so that is why you need to do this.

How Often?

• I recommend doing it weekly. 

How?

• Database | Backup Database…

This starts a wizard that give you options.  So what options?

• I suggest always choosing Create a new backup
• The databases themselves aren’t that big.  And if something gets corrupted, you can go back to previous ones.  If you update, you don’t have that option.
• On the second page, I suggest Include Thumbnails
• Any of the top 3 is fine, but if you have space, I suggest including the thumbnails.  If you don’t include them and you restore the database, then ACDSee has to rebuild them all.  It doesn’t take too long if you don’t want to include the thumbnails.
• Also on the second page, Backup files of types.  I suggest NOT checking this box.  This will back up your images.  Since your digital scrapbook collection is so large I don’t think this is a good way to backup your images.  I suggest coming up with your own backup plan.
• As to where to backup?  I suggest someplace other than your hard drive.  (Unless you run with ACDSee database on your EHD, than back up to your hard drive.)  Periodically burn that backup to CD/DVD too.

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