Comic Collector Manual
for Windows edition
Welcome to Comic Collector Download and Install Navigating the Main Screen Adding your first comic How to search your Collection Adding Comics Automatically Adding Comics Manually Barcode Scanning Importing from text Search Settings Field Defaults Editing Comics Editing Multiple Comics Adding Links and Backdrops List Items and more Updating Comics Find Cover Image Update File Links The Options Screen Managing Loans Editing List Icons Managing your Wish List Customizing Comic Collector Changing the layout Custom Field Names Sorting your Collection Custom Views Edit, Merge List Items Using Folders Activating Connect Sync & Share Synchronizing with Connect Linking your comics for Connect CLZ Comics for iPhone/iPod CLZ Comics for iPad CLZ Comics for Android Printing a Simple List Collection Statistics Using the Filter screen The Collectorz.com comic database Updating Comic Collector Print screen Keyboard Shortcuts Field Reference Creating a Backup Glossary of comic related terms Lists for insurance purposes Data Submission Guidelines Validating Comic Collector
Update File Links
Comic 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, Comic Collector saves your images in the
C:\(My) Documents\Comic Collector\Images folder.
Thumbnails are automatically generated by Comic Collector and are saved in the
C:\(My) Documents\Comic 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 Comic Collector, but no large images. Comic 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. Comic Collector will automatically scan subfolders of the selected folder, too. When you're not sure where you moved your images to, you can have Comic 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.