Eyecopia 2.0 Help System
-How to Create an Eyecopia Archive-
This guide will show you how to create an Eyecopia Archive. Archives are a group of events that you define that Eyecopia will bundle for you. You can look at the information at any time using the Eyecopia Archive Viewer. Some users like to create archives in order to save space on their system. Other users want to create an archive to share certain types of events with friends and family.
Create Eyecopa archive:
- Open Eyecopia and go to the Archive page. The Archive Session is in the middle of the page. This area will display the details about the archive you are currently defining, which we refer to as an archive session.
- Select a time filter to define the time period to apply to the event sets in your archive. The default for this is the All Events time filter. In other words, all the events Eyecopia has ever recorded on your system.
- Now, define the event sets you want included in the archive. This is done by using the category buttons to the left of the Archive Session. Once you have selected the category or categories that define a group of events you want to include, click on the Add Event Set button to add that event set to your archive session.
- A description of the event set will then be displayed in the Archive Session. If you do not want to limit your archive sessions by category, just leave the default All Events event set.
You can add multiple sets, but pay attention to the space that your
archive is using. If you are planning on burning your archive to CD or
DVD, you may want to limit the size of your archive accordinly. The
Archive Status Bar, found directly underneath the Archive Session,
helps you to visualize the amount of space that your archive is consuming.
You can modify the size of the status bar by choosing either the CD
or DVD option from the drop-down box above the status bar.
If you have too many events for your archive media type, the bar
will turn red--like the image on the right. To reduce archive disk space,
you may want to remove some event sets or change the time filter you have
applied to the archive sessions to a smaller time period.- When you are sure that the event session is defined the way you want it, both with the time filter and event set(s), you can start the archive creation process by clicking the Create Archive button. Eyecopia will then open a dialog window entitled Save Archive.
In this window, you will need to make three decisions. First,
choose what you would like to do with the events once you have made an
archive of them. You can either delete them or keep them. Select the
option that meets your needs.- Next, choose where you would like the archive to be located. Use the Browse button to locate the location. You can select to place the archive directly onto a networked or removable drive, if applicable. If you are creating an archive to go to CD or DVD, the process will depend on your system. Eyecopia does not burn data directly to CD or DVD. Instead, select a temporary location to hold the bundled archive data. Then, through your typical CD or DVD burning process, specify that temporary location as the data you want burned to disk. Software, such as Roxio or Nero, are often part of the original installation on your computer to complete this task.
- You can customize the name of your archive in the last text field.
- Once you are satisfied with these three options, click the OK button. If you change your mind about making an archive or what the archive contains, click the Cancel button to return to the Archive page. If you select OK, you will see a progress bar indicating the archive is being built. When it is completed, you will receive a dialog indicating the archive was successfully completed.
- To view events you have archived, open Eyecopia's secondary component called the Archive Viewer. The viewer can also be used to share event archives with friends and family.
- If you created an archive in a temporary location to burn to CD or DVD, be sure to delete the data in the temporary archive location after you create the CD or DVD.
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