How to use MyPixelVault
MyPixelVault is easy to use application for organising images. By allowing you to add keywords to all of your images you can quickly and easily find the ones you want.
Start off by adding a group using the button on the top toolbar.
To add images to new group, either use the button, or if you want to add many images across multiple directories use the button. MyPixelVault will preserve the structure if you add many directories at a time, individual folders will be created for you.
Menu Bar
File - > New Clears MyPixelVault, ready for a new image repository
Load Load a previously saved MyPixelVault image repository
Save Save the current repository
Save As Save the current repository with a different filename.
Close Close MyPixelVault.
 
Edit - > Settings Opens the MyPixelView configuration page. See here for more details.
 
Search -> Normal Search Opens the search tab and places the cursor in the "search for" box.
Search Wizard Opens the search wizard.
 
Tools -> Duplicate Check Check current list for duplicate images, see here for more details.
Duplicate Check (folder) Check currently selected folder for duplicate images. See here for more.
Rebuild Thumbnail Cache Recreates all thumbnails for the current list, see here for more details.
Rebuild Thumbnail Cache A above except it only works on the selected folder. More here.
(folder)
Import Images Move images to another physical location, see here for more details.
Set 'Original Path' Alter the 'Original Path' for the selected folder.
Open Path in Explorer Opens the 'Original Path' for the selected folder in explorer.
Slideshow of Current Slideshow of the selected folder. Same as pressing .
 
Help - > Help This help ;)
MyPixelVault Homepage Open the MyPixelVault homepage in your default browser.
Register Pugnax Open the MyPixelVault Registration website.
Check for new version Check for a new version of MyPixelVault.
About Display version information and contact details

Main Toolbar

Save the current Image Repositary. If the current list hasn't been saved before then you will be presented with a Windows Save dialog. The default location for saves is "<install directory>\saves".
Add a new group. There is no limit to the number of groups that can be added. When adding a group you can specify a "scheme" that goes with it. Click here for more information on schemes.
Delete the selected group, this will delete all of the group's folders and images.
Open the advanced search settings.
Highlights all folders () that contain images with no keywords.
Display useful information on the current image repository.
Open this help.
Image Repository Toolbar
Add new folder
Add a new folder to the currently selected group. You cannot add folders to other folders, only groups. There is no limit to the number of images that can be put in to a folder.
Remove selected folder
Remove the currently selected folder and associated images.
Rename selected folder
Rename the selected folder.
Refresh selected folder contents
If you have folders that were created using the 'Add Entire Folder' or 'Add Entire Folder (Special)' features (below) then you can use this function to update the contents to reflect new images, deleted images or other changes. This function will not work with folders created with 'Add New Folder' (above).
Add images
Add multiple images from a single directory.
Remove selected image
Remove the selected image.
Move selected image
Move the selected image to another folder.
Add entire folder
Add an entire folder, sub folders and images to the currently selected group. You cannot add folders to other folders.
Add entire folder, special
Add an entire folder, sub folders and images to the currently selected group. The special mode allows you to automatically add keywords as the images are imported in to the current repository.
Slideshow current folder
Display all the images in the current folder as a slideshow.
Image Toolbar
View image full screen
View the selected image in a seperate window.
Open in default application
Open the current image with the Windows default image manipulation program.
Copy image to clipboard
Copy the currently displayed image to the clipboard.
Image Information Toolbar
Previous image
Move up the image repository list.
Next image
Move down the image repository list.
Collapse all folders and groups
Close all opened folders and groups.
Search View Toolbars
The following toolbars appear on both the 'List View' and 'Thumbnail View' parts of the search tab.
View the selected image's information on the 'image info' tab.
View the selected image full screen.
View the selected image in a seperate window.
Open in default application
Open the current image with the Windows default image manipulation program.
Copy images
Copy all of the images that have been returned from the current search to another location.
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