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mrwul
Member
My photos are in a folder
\Photos\Canon\yyyy-mm-dd\
\Photos\Nikon\yyyy-mm-dd
I want to be able to just click on the rootfolder and all thumbnails should be shown, without showing the folders. I think Bridge has something like that (show items in subfolders or something). This is a 1 click option.
How to accomplish this in ACDSee Pro 2.5 - guess it must be an easy solution. Tried with View->Filters->Advanced filters, but I still have to select all the subfolders manually.
thanks
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Marc Sabatella
Moderator
I don't think ACDSee has a direct one-click way to do this, although it's certainly been suggested often enough, so mabe some day. The usual suggested workaround would be to hit the "*" on the numeric keypad (has to be the numeric one) while in the Folders window to expand the selected folder on level, and again as many tiems as your hierarchy is deep, to expand everything. Unless you have an unusually deep folder hierarchy, just a handful of clicks should expand it all. Then you'd shift-click the last subfolder to select all folders. I agree this is pretty awkward, and should be addressed, since it is something a lot of people could benefit from.
However, I'd also suggest that if you commonly find yourself wanting to perform operatins like this, you might consider asking yourself if there isn't a different way entirely to achieve the results you want. For instance, to see all pictures taken with a given Nikon camera, you could go to Auto Categories in the Organize window and click that camera. Or to see all pictures shot on a given day, or in a given month or year, click that date in in the Calendar window. Depending on what you are currently using folders for, you could also consider using Categories to organize this information. The point being to develop an organizational scheme that doesn't depend only on folder structure. Independently of whether ACDSee eventually provides a one-click solution to this common problem of wanting to see all images in sub-folders, it's just a good idea in general to develop an orgnizational scheme that takes fuller advantage of the metadata aside from just folder location to track your images.
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