Opening a catalouge

[IainS]

Is it too much to ask how to simply open a catalogue so I can see all the images in it?

I have created catalogues and now after a month I want to come back and look at a catalogue. But I cannot find out how to do it. Have I missed something. Are there simple instructions. Surely there must be a menu or button that allows to to open an look at a catalogue.

Iain

[Kirk Baker]

Search for:

"."

That will match all filenames, because all filenames have a period in them.

HTH,

-Kirk

[IainS]

Hi Kirk and thanks for the reply.

I am obviously having difficulty communicating my problem.

When I open Photo Mechanic plus - how do I load/open the catalogues I have previously created?

Can you give me a step by step guide as quite obviously I am missing something obvious.

Thanks Iain

[ahoward]

Hi Kirk and thanks for the reply.

I am obviously having difficulty communicating my problem.

When I open Photo Mechanic plus - how do I load/open the catalogues I have previously created?

Can you give me a step by step guide as quite obviously I am missing something obvious.

Thanks Iain

Once you create a catalog with Photo Mechanic Plus, it is opened as soon as you launch the program, until you choose to Forget the catalog or Delete it (both of which can be done from the Catalog Management window).

You'll see any 'open' catalogs in the Active Catalogs section of the Organizer:

https://docs.camerabits.com/support/solutions/articles/48001077444-find-your-catalogs-using-the-organizer-panel

You can access the images from each catalog using the Search, Browse, Filter, and Collections tabs. There's a link to further details of each of those tools in the article I linked above. When you do a Search, Browse or Filter, you'll get results for all of the the catalogs that have their "Search" box selected in the Activate catalogs area.

So, if you want to see all images in a particular catalog: Check the 'Search' box in the Active Catalogs area for the catalog you'd like to see the images in. Then Click the Search tab on the left edge of the window, enter a . character in the 'Quick Search' bar, and press Return.