Book Collector Manual
for Windows edition
Welcome to Book Collector Download and Install Navigating the Main Screen Adding Books How to search your Collection Adding Books Automatically Adding Books Manually Barcode Scanning Adding e-book Files Search Settings Importing from text Managing your Wish List Importing from Windows/XML Field Defaults Editing Books Editing Multiple Books List Items and more Adding Links and Files Update File Links Find Cover Image Managing Pseudonyms Editing List Icons Adding a Box Set Changing the layout Sorting your Collection Custom Field Names Using Folders Custom Views Edit, Merge List Items Customizing Book Collector Activating Connect Sync & Share Linking your books for Connect CLZ Books for iPhone/iPod CLZ Books for Android CLZ Books HD for iPad Loan Manager Printing a Simple List Lists for insurance purposes Using the Filter screen Updating Book Collector The Options Screen Print screen Keyboard Shortcuts Creating a Backup Data Submission Guidelines Lists for insurance purposes Collection Statistics Validating Book Collector Field Reference
Update File Links
Book Collector takes good care of your collection and it's images. You know it's true. It's really easy to maintain the links to your images in good shape, even when you move your images to another drive on your computer (or to an external hard disk, for example).
By default, Book Collector saves your images in the
C:\(My) Documents\Book Collector\Images folder.
Thumbnails are automatically generated by Book Collector and are saved in the
C:\(My) Documents\Book Collector\Images
Although it is possible to save the images for your collection in different folders and or locations (for example on an external hard disk), we strongly recommend keeping your images in one and the same folder, preferably in the default location.
Images
After you've moved (some) images, you might still be able to see the thumbnails in your main view of Book Collector, but no large images. Book Collector can automatically link back all missing images with a few clicks.- Click Tools > Maintenance > Update File Links
- In the Update File Links Screen, click Browse and select the folder that contains your images. Book Collector will automatically scan subfolders of the selected folder, too. When you're not sure where you moved your images to, you can have Book Collector search your whole computer. Handy!
- Click the Search button, followed by Update
- And, well, that's pretty much all there's to it. Thumbnails will be re-generated for the newly linked images files and your collection'll look just swell again.