> On dark and rainy days I search the internet for names for my insects (The Netherlands have some excellent sites on Zweefvliegen btw.) so of course I add the info to one photo at a time as I rarely have more than one or two photos of the same creature.
Well, in that case you can simply do this:
[*]Set it to Replace
[*]Put your cursor in the edit box,
at the end of the information that is already there[*]Now type or paste the information that you want to add
[*]Press OK and the old and new information will both be in the image comment.
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No need to copy anything to a notebook. Or am I missing something? :)
> Then I move them to the appropriate folders, and if I have used the annotation box the info will be lost.
Not if you use ThumbsPlus to move the image! In that case it will update the thumbnail record (including the annotation) with the new location of the image. If you use Explorer or a different program to move the file, ThumbsPlus can't know what you did, and so the connection between the file and its thumbnail record is lost.
Still, it is better to use the comment field (like you do) or an IPTC field (if you would use the meta data editor), because then the information will be stored in the images file itself. But you can combine both methods as I explained earlier.
> I myself have used the program for many years, in fact I still have the booklet "The HitchHiker's Guide to ThumbsPlus6" :-)
I still have a few of those too :-)
> I could use it for a family album myself, but I dont feel up to fighting with the program to remove the empty space that occurs when the photos are taken with a pocket camera.
I'm not sure what you mean.. or maybe it is this: Images from pocket cameras typically have a 4:3 proportion (for example: 3200x2400 pixels), whereas most SLR images have a 3:2 proportion. Depending on the proportions of your monitor, there may be 'empty space' when you view them full screen. Is that what you mean? If so, you could either crop those images to suitable proportions, or zoom into them, or view them 'windowed', or use a different monitor. This problem is not related to ThumbsPlus though.