I use ACDSee 3.1 with XP Professional, and I have 2 internal hard drives: C & D. ACDSee is installed on C. I've been using D to upload, edit and organize my pictures, and then move them to C (using ACDSee) for storage once completed. This seemed to be working OK until my last move of several 100. This time all of my Notes disappeared. What went wrong? Can I recover them? Similarly I experienced two other problems: 1. During my organizing, I move pictures to different folders on the same drive using ACDSee, and it is not uncommon that Descriptions and Notes get changed to those from other pictures 2. When I down load from a scanner or camera, to an existing folder, it is not uncommon that Descriptions and Notes get assigned which are from other pictures in that folder. This does not happen when I down load to a new folder. Any idea what is going on? Your help will be greatly appreciated!

My wild 'guess' is that files are copied to a folder where there are already files with the same name. But I suggest using My Computer instead of ACDSee for copying files. I also suggest copying and deleting instead of moving. I hope you are backing up all those pictures. It wouldn't take much of a problem to lose them all.

Thanks for your reply. Indeed I back up my pictures. Great idea to copy/paste instead of move - gives me a recovery should anything go wrong during the process. I'm quite sure there are no duplicate filenames since I would be advised that I'm trying to save a file that already exists. However, there might have been file with the same name that was deleted - not probable, but possible. I will keep an eye out for that. I use ACDSee to do the copy/paste/move/rename etc. because I'm concerned about losing the medadata (Desc & Notes) that I posted in ACDSee (Also much more user friendly). But that hasn't worked well at all, so I will try the Windows tool for these functions in the future. Thanks again for your reply!

You're welcome and good luck. I was worried that ACDsee wasn't as careful as windows about checking for duplicates and deleting files.