MS Digital Image Suite 9, keyword problems with.

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Frank Martin

I have WindowsXP.

When cataloguing photos with Digital Image Suite 9, I have found the keyword
facility very useful.

I store all photos in TIFF format.

Say for example I want to add keywords for one grandmother "GrannyF", and I
go through and do this whether she is alone in the photo or in a group with
other people.

Then I go through the lot and add a keyword for father "Father" whether he
is alone or in a group.

Then I go through and add keywords for my other grandmother "GrannyJ", alone
or in a group.

And so on.

From the above, some photos will have more than one keyword, and I should be
able to seek out photos with "GrannyF" AND "Father" to give photos
containing GrannyF and Father TOGETHER whether they are together or with
other people.

But if I select the appropriate keywords the "AND" function does not work,
and the only way to make it work is to go through them all again and
manually add more than one keyword to each photo which is very time
consuming.

Surely there is a way for the system to remember keywords added, say,
yesterday and to combine these keywords with those added tomorrow!

Please help, Frank
 
Frank said:
I have WindowsXP.

When cataloguing photos with Digital Image Suite 9, I
have found the keyword facility very useful.

I store all photos in TIFF format.

Say for example I want to add keywords for one
grandmother "GrannyF", and I go through and do this
whether she is alone in the photo or in a group with
other people.

Then I go through the lot and add a keyword for father
"Father" whether he is alone or in a group.

Then I go through and add keywords for my other
grandmother "GrannyJ", alone or in a group.

And so on.

From the above, some photos will have more than one
keyword, and I should be able to seek out photos with
"GrannyF" AND "Father" to give photos containing GrannyF
and Father TOGETHER whether they are together or with
other people.

But if I select the appropriate keywords the "AND"
function does not work, and the only way to make it work
is to go through them all again and manually add more
than one keyword to each photo which is very time
consuming.

Surely there is a way for the system to remember keywords
added, say, yesterday and to combine these keywords with
those added tomorrow!

Please help, Frank
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I guess I don't understand the question. There is
no *AND* function...you simply choose as many
keywords as you require and the corresponding
images should be displayed.

Go to...View / View by / Keyword...and select as
many as you wish.

No doubt...in many cases it will be useful to add
several keywords to a single image.

FWIW...it might be a good idea to back up your
DIS9 data base....

=====================
How to find the Database for Digital Image Library 9.

If you have lots of images cataloged, it would be a
good idea to backup the "Pictures.pod" file on a CD...

Each user's database is located in their Application
Data directory (typically C:\Documents and Settings\
<username>\Application Data\Microsoft\POD). The
database is named Pictures.pod by default (though
if a database corruption has occurred, then we will
create new files with incremented names in that same
location).

The user's Application Data directory is a hidden
directory, so users will have to turn on "show hidden
files" in order to see the directory in Explorer. The
actual location of the directory is also stored by the
system in the %APPDATA% environment variable,
so you can get to the folder by going to Start/Run and
typing:

"%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Pod" (without the quotes)
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