Review of ACDSee 7.0

[Suhit Gupta]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1727517,00.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1727517,00.asp</a><br /><br /></div><i>"With the debut of ACDSee Version 7, the well-known high-end photo-management application has topped itself yet again. ACDSee's latest incarnation is easier to use than previous versions, yet it's even more powerful. It offers dozens of new tools, giving you more ways to organize, view, edit, and share your digital pictures. It isn't quite as simple to use as products like Adobe Photoshop Album or Jasc PaintShop Photo Album, but the payoff is more power and control over your image library. When you first launch the app, it gives you an Explorer-like view of your Microsoft Windows folder tree, and as you move from folder to folder, it seamlessly—and quickly—weeds out everything but your digital images, rendering thumbnails of each photo in the blink of an eye."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/acdsee7_box_1.jpg" /><br /><br />Nice review of ACDSee 7.0. Unfortunately I am still using 6.0 but I really hope to upgrade soon.

[Jason Dunn]

I'm working on a quickie review, but one useful fact I learned: the software activation allows you to install and activate it three times. So that let me put the software on both my laptops and my desktop. Nice!

[smirando]

Does version 6 have to be uninstalled before version 7 is installed?

Will version 7 read the database file from version 6?

Thanks.
Sal

[Suhit Gupta]

Does version 6 have to be uninstalled before version 7 is installed?
No.
Will version 7 read the database file from version 6?
Yes, or so I can tell from reviews of the product.

Suhit

[Janak Parekh]

I'm working on a quickie review, but one useful fact I learned: the software activation allows you to install and activate it three times. So that let me put the software on both my laptops and my desktop. Nice!
That's useful to know. I installed it at home and work, but left it at that because I didn't know what the official limits were. I think I'll install it on my laptop now. ;)

Jason - do you know if activations are transferable, though? What if a desktop were to die, for instance?

--janak

[Jason Dunn]

Jason - do you know if activations are transferable, though? What if a desktop were to die, for instance?

No, they're not - at least, not automatically. I wish these companies would allow the replacement of a license on an uninstall. That wouldn't help if a PC died, but it would be a start. I think you'd just have to email ACDSEE and explain what happened...but that's another reason why activation kind of sucks. :?