What a rotten image organizer! I have spent so much time trying to work through their endless mazes of toolbars, panes, and menus trying to get the most basic things done with it only to find out that "you can't do that in IDimager".
-J-Mac
Just a quick note to say I've only just seen this & will get back to you later today, if it would still be helpful.
I didn't realise you were having any problems - I don't often visit the IDI forums.
Have just had a quick look & the stuff you want to do can be done fairly straightforwardly. Can see all the info you want in IDI; can apply labels to all images in folder by drag and drop.-Dormouse
Dormouse: You're kidding, aren't you? Why didn't anyone in the forum there say so? IMO the forum for IDimager is not very helpful. The developer doesn’t respond there and other users, well, you see what answers/suggestions I received there. For the record I have about 60% of my images labeled now but it's such a complex process to do what should be a very simple task. Most tasks in IDimager seem to be much more complex than need be. And it does everything at the speed of a watched pot waiting to boil. Though I am still pissed at ACDSee for not creating a Win7-compatible version at least you could do a lot of the same things in ACDSee quicker and without a dozen keystrokes and having 6 panes open to do it all. (Though their latest Pro versions have gotten just as bad with the various panes from what I understand).
There's no getting away from the fact that it is a highly complex prog with lots of options & it is very easy to get lost in it. Surprised you didn't get responses that told you how to what you wanted on the forums..
Unfortunately they have made it complex needlessly in many areas it seems. Category labels and keywords should not be that difficult to assign! And "synchronizing with XMP" is just crazy! Took the program three full days and nights to "sync" my ~20,000 images - and I don’t use the XMP format! But in order to get the basic EXIF details in there apparently it requires me to do this. Again, crazy. Or just stupid.
Worst thing I have run into with IDimager: I cannot see the size of any of my images. That information is nowhere that I can find. I have asked about that in their forum and not gotten any replies. I tried to use the "Move to folder..." feature in the right-click menu but the resultant dialog said it was going to automatically resize the images in order to move them. Why?!?! And there was no way to deselect that - I could change the new size and/or the method used to resize it but I didn't want the damn image resized! So I thought that perhaps the image was too large for the program, that maybe the program has a size limit on images. (Though my images don’t generally exceed about 2272 x 1704 x 24 px). And that is when I discovered that there is nowhere in the program that shows me the size in pixels; the size that I can easily see in any other image organizer or editor in the world, and even in Explorer. I have asked about it at the forum, I have read and searched their Help file, and I have read all Parts of Mike Buckley's ebook on IDimager 5.
Do you happen to know where/how I can see that info within IDimager?
I guess that you can see I can't really discuss this program right now without getting frustrated all over again! Not worth the aggravation!
Thank you.
Jim
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