digital-arts--sciences imageaxs pro 4.1 for macintosh User Manual

The basic elements of how ImageAXS works are defined 
briefly below.  Becoming familiar with these terms will help 
you learn the program more quickly.

A source file is any file on your computer (or a separate disk 
or storage device) that is catalogued in ImageAXS.

The file is referred to as a source file because it is the source 
for the data record created by ImageAXS. 

Acquiring is the act of making an ImageAXS data record for 
a source file.  To use ImageAXS to manage the files in a 
particular folder, for example, you would acquire all of the 
files in that folder (see Chapter 6, 

Collections are the documents created by ImageAXS.  A 
collection contains a data record for each source file that 
you acquire (as well as blank records, if you create any).  

With ImageAXS, you can create and maintain as many 
different collections as you want. With ImageAXS 
Professional, you can also open more than one collection at 
a time.

Note

Although the records in ImageAXS collections describe 
your source files, they do not contain the files themselves.  
You can move or delete the collection without affecting the 
source files, and vice versa.