Your software includes a full, searchable help guide and printable user guide. To access the Help Guide, simply click the Help button (question mark inside a blue circle on the upper right of any screen within Memory Manager 3.0) and then choose Help Contents . You can also access the printable User Guide from this screen. Your Memory Manager 3.0 serial number can be found in the About section of Help.

Memory Manager creates small versions of your images called “thumbnails” that are displayed in the image library. You might notice that the first time you get images into the memory vault, there is a slight delay the first time the thumbnails are displayed.

Memory Manager maintains a cache of these thumbnails, so it doesn’t need to recreate the thumbnails every time the application runs. When the cache reaches it’s maximum size, thumbnails that haven’t been used recently are deleted to make room for new thumbnails.

You can allow Memory Manager to use more disk space for the thumbnails. Doing so will reduce the time Memory Manager spends recreating thumbnails of images and improve the performance of the Image Library, especially with large archives. To increase the amount of space used, perform the following steps:

1. Click the Vault button to open the Start menu and select Welcome Page.


2. Click Show Me More Details from the display.


3. The Vault Information dialog box displays. Click on the Support tab.


4. In the thumbnails space box, increase the amount of space, which is shown in megabytes (MB). The maximum amount allowed is 1,000 which is 1 gigabyte (GB) of space.
5. Click Close to save the changes.

The Memory Manager Work area, shown in the lower right corner of the application, lets you easily move images between different parts of the software.

If you would like to gather a group of images to print, email, export, show in a slideshow, or use to create an album, the Work Area might be the best way of doing this. Browse the Media Library for the images you want to group, and drag them one at a time, or several at a time, to the Work Area. Dragging and dropping images from a folder into the Work Area will NOT remove the images from that folder.

Once you have gathered the images you want in the Work Area, use the Work Area’s Share menu to Select All images in the Work Area. Then use the Work Area’s Share menu a second time to print, email, export, to show in a slideshow, or to add to an album. Once you’re done with these images, you can use the Work Area’s Clear menu to clear the Work Area. This only removes the images from the Clipboard. It does NOT delete them from the memory vault.

Memory Manager allows you to create multiple memory vaults. If more than one member of your household has a digital camera and wants to use Memory Manager, you might want to create a separate vault for each individual. This allows each one to organize pictures and create albums. You can use the export feature of Memory Manager to share pictures between vaults, and you can later merge the separate vaults if necessary.

Memory Manager displays the current vault name in the title bar of the software.

To open another vault, simply choose Close Memory Vault from the Start menu, then select another vault to open. When Memory Manager starts, it will automatically open the vault that was last used.

Memory Manager will keep the original image and one edited version of the image in the vault. Each time you make changes to an image, the edited version is updated.

You may want to keep more than just the most recently edited version of an image. For example, if you are working on an image to restore it over a period of time, you might want to keep copies of various steps along the way. Another example might be that you have an image for which you want both color and sepia tone versions.

In these cases, you can enable the revision management feature of Memory Manager. This feature allows you to keep multiple versions of each image in the Media Library. To enable revision management, complete the following steps:

1. Click the Vault button in the upper left corner of the software to see the Start menu and choose User Settings.


2. To enable in-depth revision control, select Enable Revision Management in the General portion of the dialog box.

When saving images, you will now be able to overwrite originals, save new revisions, and create entirely new originals (branching). Details about using Revision Management can be found in the online help file.

To best protect your memories over time, you might want to back up your memory vaults to more than one type of media. For example, if you burn CDs or DVDs for your normal backups, you might want to consider doing a complete backup of the vaults to an external drive on a periodic basis.

The album feature of Memory Manager allows you to create journaling boxes, using a wide range of fonts and colors. If you create a style that you would like to use as the default style, simply select a journaling box with that style, right-click on that box, select Styles and Formatting from the popup menu, then select Make this Style the Default.

All new journaling boxes will now be created using this new default style.

Memory Manager can communicate directly with some email applications. However, most web-based email providers do not allow third-party applications such as Memory Manager to communicate directly with them. If you use one of these providers, then you cannot email images directly using Memory Manager’s “Email” feature.

If you use one of these web-based e-mail providers, then you can e-mail images in the following manner:

1. Use Memory Manager’s Print Online feature to export images to a temporary folder.
2. Log onto your web-based e-mail provider and create a new message.
3. Attach these files to the email message by either dragging and dropping or by browsing to the temporary file location, and then send.

If the images you are emailing are for the recipient to view but not print, then you may want to use the Export to File feature under the Share tab, and use the Advanced Options in the Export dialog to create smaller versions of the image, reducing the size of the email message.