ACDSee

[hollyann]

I just love my image viewer ACDSee. I can view everything, drag and drop, browse zips, rename series of items, create contact sheets and much more. I like it better than Picasa and Windows XP's style because it doesn't leave those thumbnail files that eat up file space and thus bandwidth (bad for those on dial up or file storage space limits). I think ACDSee is something every photographer, scrapper and digital designer ought to have. They have free versions, but worth the purchase.

[ginaMO]

This is a good program. I used to have it on my laptop and lost it when I crashed. I've been using Picasa until I'm ready to purchase ACDSee again.

[hollyann]

I chose to have them send me a CD instead of a download just for that reason. I originally got the program years ago with my scanner. I don't like Picasa only because it leaves large thumbnail files inside of my freebies I upload, taking up hoster space as well as the fact I used to be on dial-up. ACDSee uses a single database file located elsewhere on the computer. Corel and Microsoft programs (like XP) also leave these thumb files within each folder browsed (called .thumbs or .jsbrowse, etc).

[Robin]

Thanks for the info hollyann. I've just deleted the contents of those folders. Wasn't a heap there but still good to get rid of stuff that's not needed.