Major Bug in Digital Image Suite 2006

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If you do a full archive to DVD's you get all your photos written to the
DVD's with your folder structure. There is no way to restore everything
keeping the structure intact. So if you lose your system and have to rebuild
your only way to do this is with windows explorer and copy them. It's said
that you can do a full backup (archive) and don't have the means to reverse
it in full or partially within the application.
 
Your DIS Library 2006 database is found at:

C:\Documents and Settings\>user name<\
Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\
POD\Pictures.pd3

If you make regular backup copies of your
Pictures.pd3 file you can restore the database.

If you reinstall DIS 2006 after a reformat
all you have to do is replace the new Pictures.pd3
file with your backup copy and the library is
restored.
 
That would work only if you went through Windows Explorer and copied all your
directories from your Backup DVD's and then restore the Pictures.pd3 file.
However every Microsoft product out there SQL Server and etc. If you can do
a Backup in the application you have the ability to do a restore (full and
partial) within the application itself. And you don't have this option
available right now with this application.... Your pictures are safe as they
are on the DVD's... But I am wondering the effect on your Tags, Flags,
Keywords. I know that the final Keyword is stored in the actual JPG itself
which is good. But if you have say organized your keywords like Family --
Marys Family --- then all the people in them as sub's. I don't want all my
keywords to reappear as one big list under the keywords group because it
loses my structure. So backing up the Pictures.pd3 file behind the scence
becomes more necessary now.....
 
The database (Pictures.pd3) contains the
thumbs and metadata and of course you
cannot access images that are not available.

I thought your issue was the loss of the file
structure in the library which a backup of
Pictures.pd3 will restore.
 
I don't have a issue with the library itself. But when you do the archive it
copies the physical directory structure to the DVD's. Now its time to
restore on same PC or say even a new one. There is no means in the
application to restore your Archive. The only means available to you is the
Import Wizard which doesn't see folders and will copy all the photos into one
big folder. My older camera started off with the 0001 everytime you put the
memory card in. So the folder structure is the only way to keep the files
with duplicate names alive. When you run the wizard it hits the first file
and says it already exists do you want me to rename it. What I want is to
rebuild exactly what it archived to the DVD using the program. And another
issue when you copy the folders manually from the DVD like Microsoft Techs
told me to do it changes all your dates....
 
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