2. Opening & saving a catalog

You may either use the "File" menu or the three buttons on the left of the tool bar. These are the Load button, the Save button & the Close button. The Load & Save tasks are monitored in the status progress bar (displayed at the bottom). MediaLibrary will warn you when attempting to save on a already existing different catalog. When saving, the previous save is backuped in a .bak read-only file. The "File" menu features quick load shortcuts to the most recent catalogs used at its bottom.

The different catalog format that you can use are :

Note that if you do not specify the extention of the file, Medialibrary will automatically create a catalog in the XML Gzipped format.

Figure 3.1. The file menu

The file menu