# Album and all you can do with it

An album is an answer to the old well-known albums with pictures. Thanks to it, you can organize and sort your puzzles in many various ways, you can label them with funny comments and you can share the puzzles with someone you share the computer with.

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# Creating an album

1. Choose New Album in the main menu of the Store Room.
2. Choose a name of an album. The name can be changed anytime afterwards.
3. Decide whether your new album is to be shared - check the option Shared. If the album is once marked as shared, this attribute cannot be changed later. But there is a simple trick, how to get around this attribute and how to make a private album from shared one and vice versa.
4. Into the arisen window drag the puzzles you want to have in your album with a mouse.

# Sharing albums

If you use users accounts in your computer, you have the possibility to decide whether your album or some of your albums can be accessible to the other users. If an album is shared, the other users can play, modify, vary and move puzzles included in this album. They also can rename and delete this album. If an album is not shared, then it is your private album, which cannot be seen by the other users in the Store Room. They do not know about its existence and they cannot work with it at all.

A shared album if minimized is represented with a different icon then a private album.

The area of the Store Room is divided into the area of private albums and the area of shared albums. There cannot be two albums of the same name in one area but there can be an album of the same name in the shared and private area.

The desktop of the Store Room is also an album. This album is always shared. It is not possible to delete or rename it. By pressing the right mouse button anywhere on the desktop, you can display the context menu for this album.

Privacy of the albums, which are not shared, depends on the operating system of your computer. Operating systems Windows 95, 98, Me contain a basic protection, which can be broken through by a computer more competent individual. In operating systems Windows 2000, XP and higher, the private area of individual users is protected far more completely.

### How to make a private album from shared one and vice versa

1. Create a new album.
2. Set the name of the album you wish to change from shared to private or conversely.
3. Cancel the option Shared, if you wish to transform the shared album into a private one or keep the option Shared, if you want to transform the private album into a shared one.
4. Select all puzzles in the old album and move them into the new album.
5. Display Album properties of the old album and copy the description of the old album into the new album.
6. Remove the old album.

# Working with an album

If you are adding a puzzle to an already created album, the program places the new puzzle between the puzzles where there is the cursor on releasing the mouse button.

On the top title bar of the opened album, there is the album name and the number of puzzles displayed.

You can minimize an album. The minimized icon displays the name of the album and the number of puzzles in it. You can also move a puzzle into the minimized album. Simply drag the puzzle with a mouse on the album icon.

There are many options what to do with an album. All of them can be found in the context menu of an album.

# Context menu of an album

Context menu of an album can be displayed:

- In an opened album
  Place the cursor on the title bar of the album or anywhere on the free space of the album among puzzles and press the right mouse button.
- In a minimized album
  Place the cursor on the album icon and press the right mouse button.

## Remove

Deletes an album from a disk. Only an empty album can be deleted. If there are any puzzles in the album, you have to delete or move them elsewhere first (a different album, the Store Room desktop). If the album is shared, its erasure will be showed to all other users.

## Rename

Renames an album. If the album is shared, its rename will be showed to all other users.

## Select All

Selects all puzzles an the album.

## Properties

Displays information about the album. For more, see Album properties.

# Album properties

## Name

Displays the album name. You can also see it on the title bar of the album, if an album is opened or under an icon, if it is minimized.

## Items

Displays the number of puzzles in an album. The same information can be found in parentheses behind the album name.

## Shared

Provides information about sharing or not sharing an album. If an album is shared, it can also be found out from the album icon. It differs from the icon representing a private album.

## Create date

Displays the date of creation of an album.

## Size

Displays information about place which is taken with an album and all its puzzles in the disk of your computer.

## Description

Allows you to add your description. For example: "This album was created from pictures from your holiday." or "This is my new car before I borrowed it to my former friend." or "This is my friend. That's why I do not share this album.". The only exception is the Store Room desktop.