December sale

[Bonvoyage4me]

Once again I fell into the December sale. Here is a walk thru of what I do, if anyone can follow this. Once I get my order I press save to my desktop.
From there I extract it and then there is an open folder with numbers to identify the item. It says not to goof with stuff or you may damage or lose so I leave that number.
Right now I have a folder with an item number. I click on that folder and it opens to tell me photo clusters. In my system that is a type of frame so I put it in my frame folder that is on my desktop. How does that sound so far.
Now when I want a frame,
1. I have to click to open my frame folder
2. I have to read all the frames and click on one to see if it is the one I want
if not, open each one to see.
3. If I happen to know the folder name I have to click again to open
4. Then there is a folder that says KPertiet and the name of the frames.
5. Then I have to click again to see the frames.

Folder, Frames, number of frame with the name, then KPertiet with the name of the frames again, then the picture of the frames. So that is six things I open I must be doing something wrong is this normal.
I will get it eventually, I hope I am not driving you crazy on this. Those Dang beginners.

[ang66]

Gosh this seems like a lot of work to me. I unzip my folders then rename them example:Vintage frames Kpertiet. I have all my digital kits in my documents. I am sure there are lots of ways to do this and someone will jump in and give you their method. This is what works for me. Hope this helps!!

[Bonvoyage4me]

I thought I read somewhere about not to rename cuz you might damage something. I would like to rename cuz that numbers mean nothing to me.

[maureenreynolds]

Put a preview on all of your folders and it will help a lot. Try this thread for the How To
Preview on a Mac Folder

1. A mac will extract/unzip automatically. No work on your part. All my downloads from Designer Digitals have a number (skew #?) on the zipped folder. The unzipped folder has the designer name and product name.
2. If you want a specific frame, where it's now located is where you put it after seeing that unzipped named folder in your Downloads. If you put it in frames, it's in frames; if you put it in a Katie folder, it's in the Katie folder. Make sense?

[dugarner]

Originally Posted by Bonvoyage4me

I thought I read somewhere about not to rename cuz you might damage something. I would like to rename cuz that numbers mean nothing to me.

I can't imagine how renaming anything would ever hurt it. Once it's downloaded completely, you can do whatever you want with it. If you try to mess with it while it's downloading, sometimes that will corrupt the folder. But otherwise, there is no harm in renaming, cutting/pasting, anything you want to do.

However your system unzips, you can then go into the innermost folder and I'd do what Maureen said---if you're not using an organizational system, put a preview on that folder. Otherwise, you'll go crazy. I only have about 10,000 scrapbook items and I use a great organizing system, but recently I've started wanting items but I'm not sure what their keyword would be, so I have to browse . . . and browse . . . and browse.

I keep everything in each individual folder and use an organizing system to tag with keywords. It comes in handy, for instance, when you want to do pages with everything from one kit. Then you don't have to look through all your different supply folders to find the matching items.

Mac's preview and drive systems are so different from PCs I can't help much there. But when I first started, I did redistribute things into supply folders and it about drove me crazy. If you've thought about it and made your decision, stick with it pretty tight and keep it as organized as possible.

[Bonvoyage4me]

I would like to put a preview on my folder, but I don't have mac, can you do that with a PC. I am also still thinking of the ACDsee or ABDsee whatever that is people talked about yesterday. But a preview on the folder would help and if I can change the name it will help alot I can cut out that one folder with the number than

[lizj]

Yes you can add a preview to the folder on a PC (in fact it's easier than on a Mac, IMHO). Right click on your main folder and click on properties. I think it's under advanced? There's an option to show picture; navigate to the preview jpg that is included wih each kit and select it. You don't even need to click apply, although you can, it won't hurt. Close that advanced feature and voila you'll see the preview. I love this on the PC and miss it on my Mac. HTH

[Bonvoyage4me]

Lizj,
I went to folder and right clicked for properties. If I go to advanced it talks about archiving, don't want to do that. Properties when I open it, It has
General Sharing Security Previous Versions Customize
under that is a picture of a folder with EL889420 Frames Santa Wrapp
way at the bottom right it says advanced, but when I click on that it says to archive the folder.

[rsdtmd]

I never know that about changing the names when downloading. I always keep the number but after it I add the title of the item purchased (I've always done that when downloading, guess I should change now). Much easier if I have to search through my supplies for something I can not locate on picasa.

I'll have to try putting the preview picture on the folder, I like that idea.

[maureenreynolds]

Sorry Bon..., I keep thinking you are on a Mac. My mistake...again.

What Window operating system do you have? I know there are ones that allow the preview and ones that don't.

[lizj]

Originally Posted by Bonvoyage4me

Lizj,
I went to folder and right clicked for properties. If I go to advanced it talks about archiving, don't want to do that. Properties when I open it, It has
General Sharing Security Previous Versions Customize
under that is a picture of a folder with EL889420 Frames Santa Wrapp
way at the bottom right it says advanced, but when I click on that it says to archive the folder.

Sorry (I'm answering from my phone and not in front of the PC). It's under customize. Then you should see an option to choose picture. Choose the preview jpg.

[lizj]

And Maureen, thank you for the Mac link. I recall I tried that when that thread first started but my previews were always too big and I just got errors. It was too much work to change the size of the previews so I just struggle along on the Mac without previews, but I miss that feature!

[earlofoxford]

Run, don't walk, to the nearest website, and get yourself ACDSee -- it makes finding products SO much easier.

[anke]

I agree, even if you didn't tag, it's so much easier to see your items in the file tree... it's not that expensive for you PC people and that little app makes it so nice for the Mac heads too!

[kathyInAZ]

As Linda said: Run, don't walk, to the nearest website, and get yourself ACDSee -- it makes finding products SO much easier.

I must second that. It takes a while to tag everything initially, but once you get that done, it's wonderful!

[Bonvoyage4me]

I went to the ACDsee site and they have #14 on sale for 50 bucks. Is it totally different than the elements organizer and windows organizer? I have three of those organizers they seem to come with every program. I am game cuz you all seem to like it and you know tons more than me.

[home in ottawa]

I'd try to move some of those folders off of the desktop. Anytime that I have had a computer crash (x2, knocking on wood) I have lost the files which I had saved on the desktop. I won't even talk about backing up your files yet....

[Bonvoyage4me]

Got them off my desktop, also have an extranal backup. Thanks

[lizj]

For the folder preview, you also need to be viewing it in thumbnail mode (click on view, top toolbar, and click on thumbnail). Then you'll be able to see the preview that you selected under that customize> choose picture option. HTH!

[kathyInAZ]

ACDSee is similar to Elements Organizer, I think. But I like having them separate so that I can be looking at my pictures in Elements and my scrapping stuff in ACDsee at the same time. It seems to me that if both were in Elements it would be a jumble, or if they were separate catalogs would have to switch between the two. I think. But don't quote me on that!