Photo Viewer configuration.

This first thing you should do is configure Enot to work with your favorite Photo Viewer (PV). You can do in in the "Settings" page.

Click [Load viewer settings] to see if there is a predefined set of parameters for your viewer. If you can't see it, you should read the manual of your PV ("command line" section). There is a slight possibility that your PV can show albums (text files with the list of file names to show). You are lucky then, because Enot works perfectly with such PVs - you can start viewing your images right at the moment you found them. We found only two viewers that support albums: ACDSee5 (both thumbnails and slideshow) and IrfanView (slideshow only). The developer of FastStone Image Viewer (a good freeware clone of ACDSee) said he is going to add albums support in the next versions. So far we can recommend only ACDSee5 which works with albums, shows perfect results in speed and quality of image viewing, has 8 different sorting modes for thumbnails and thus can be considered the best choice for Enot.
Warning: ACDSee7 does not support albums! If you are going to download ACDSee to use with Enot, look for ACDSee5 only!

Working with PVs that support albums (normal mode).

Stupid mode: unchecked.
Execute program (with "s):
"C:\Program Files\Your_PV\Your_PV.exe"
Parameters (with "s):
"%album%"
Album list line (usually full filename per line):
%fullname%
Album name (should have the extension which is recognized as album by your PV; ".ais" for ACDSee5):
myalbum.txt

Here %album% will be replaced with the full path to the file that lists the images to show.

Working with PVs without album support (stupid mode).

If you don't like ACDSee5 and prefer to stick to your old PV, you need to find out how to make it show a folder with images from command line. If you can't find it in the manual, ask the developer of the viewer or better punch him to add albums support, it's not that difficult.

If the developer of the PV keeps silent (for instance, we couldn't get support from Ulead and we're happy that we haven't bought Ulead Photo Viewer), try one of the following:

"C:\Program Files\Your_PV\Your_PV.exe" "C:\Pics"
"C:\Program Files\Your_PV\Your_PV.exe" "C:\Pics\"
"C:\Program Files\Your_PV\Your_PV.exe" "C:\Pics\*.*"

(Replace the paths with the correct ones)

For example, the third command works. Then you should fill the following fields:

Stupid mode: checked.
Execute program (with "s):
"C:\Program Files\Your_PV\Your_PV.exe"
Parameters (with "s):
"%album%\*.*"

Here %album% will be automatically replaced with the name of the folder where Enot will copy the images to.

Stupid mode is really stupid, because Enot has to copy files to a dedicated folder and make the PV show files from that folder (unfortunately, all viewers except ACDSee5 can show images from one folder at one time, so such a file transfer is required). Needless to say, if you sorted out 300 photos, one per meg, the transfer of 300 megs will take about 25 seconds while ACDSee5 will start showing them immediately from the location where they were found. Anyway, in most cases you need to find one image or a set of 10-50 images, and it will take a couple of seconds to copy them.

Important notes.

REMEMBER: when browsing or slideshowing images in stupid mode, you work with copies of files, not the originals. The positive side of this is that you will never damage the originals, for instance, if you casually delete one of the found files. The negative thing is that your PV doesn't have direct access to the originals to rename or delete them when needed.

When working in standard (non-stupid) mode, the behavior of file deletion depends on the PV: some PVs may delete the original photo, others may just remove the link to the file from the album and leave the file unpouched (this is what ACDSee5 does).

When you double-click on the found file in the Enot file list, you always work with the original, even if you use stupid mode to view thumbnails or slideshow!

Proved PVs.

The table shows only PVs tested with Enot so far; there exist a lot of viewers that are also compatible.

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