PSE6 and external drives.

[elguapo]

Is there a way to use PSE 6 as a photo viewer without having to copy or "get photos" on to the hard drive? As in viewing images off a thumbdrive in the organizer, and being able to add taggs and then simply remove the thumbdrive without ever having to copy images to the C drive.

Also, Can you work off an external drive? As in PSE6 on the C drive and all images on an external drive.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[jim0004]

I'm not sure that PE6 can do what you are asking. Besides, it would be more trouble than it's worth - there are other, easier-to-use programs that will view images. Picasa from google, XNView, IrfanView (view thumbnails)... Try one of those - they are are freeware.

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Mike

[CarolRN]

You can use PSE6 on your hard drive (c:) and store/pull your pictures from an external hard drive. I have PSE6 installed on my desktop c: drive, but have all of my pics on an external hard drive (because I have so many pics that it makes my PC very slow). When I "browse" my files to open an image I simply select the drive that my external drive uses (K: in my case). If you can't find K: (or the letter you drive uses) listed, you can select "My computer" and find it there. So far, I haven't had any problems doing it this way.:rolleyes:

carol