acdsee acdsee 5.0 User Manual

Adding a file description in Details view mode

You can add or edit a file description in the Details view mode of the File list.

To add or edit a file description in Details view mode:

Double-click the Description cell of a file.

2. Type a description.

3. Click

OK.

You can turn off this feature so that it is not possible to edit the
description in the Details view mode in the Options dialog box. Click
Tools | Options, and on the Managing Files page of the Options dialog
box, clear the Click to edit file name check box.

Adding the same description to a group of files

You can add a description to more than one file at the same time.

To add the same description to a group of files:

Select one or more files.

2. Do one of the following:

• Select

Edit | Describe.

•

Right-click the file and select Describe.

3. Check

Apply to all at the bottom of the dialog box.

4. Type a description.

5. Click

OK.

•

It is not possible to attach descriptions to files that reside on
read-only file systems such as a CD-ROM.

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ACDSee file descriptions are used by some applications (such as
JPSoft’s 4DOS/4NT), but are not supported directly by Windows.