Hi, my dad recently bought my a new intel mac
as a college grad present...currently installed with Leopard. I am very new to mac and not sure of the how tos and fix its. I had been running bootcamp only to use my installed PS CS3 until I learned to use it better to just start using my imac completely w/plans to remove the partition altogether. So now I have purchased and installed Adobe Creative Suite CS3 on my mac and am ready to go. NOT! I am having a big problem and not sure what i can do to make this easier.
I am a digital scrapbooker and designer for a few stores.B/c of the huge amount of space scrap kits take I have them all installed on my mybook external HD. With vista you can view the folder contents on the folder itself but i used ACDsee photo manager to organize and view my scrap supplies b/c it allowed me to keep all images on the External HD and not take up space 60GB of scrap stuff right now i need to create and use). The drag & drop feature was nice too.Well ACDSee isnt compatible, iPhoto would move all my files to my mac, & there doesnt seem to be a photo organizer/viewer for mac from what i can find. I tried to Adobe bridge thing and that doesnt seem to help with what i need to do.
Is there a plugin i can get to view the folder contents instead of just blue solid folders to help me with this issue? Does anyone know of a good photo organizer/viewer that works similar to ACDSee I can download? Or am i pretty much screwed to revert back to using bootcamp to design which is 99% of the time i am using my computer?Is there a way to simply run that one application in mac?
I love my mac and want to be able to use it all the time not use Vista. Mac's are cooler than PC's by far.
Sorry for the book but just wanted to be sure i explained everything to hopefully help you understand my problem and solution i am seeking.Thank you very much for any help you can give.

I am a digital scrapbooker and designer for a few stores.B/c of the huge amount of space scrap kits take I have them all installed on my mybook external HD. With vista you can view the folder contents on the folder itself but i used ACDsee photo manager to organize and view my scrap supplies b/c it allowed me to keep all images on the External HD and not take up space 60GB of scrap stuff right now i need to create and use). The drag & drop feature was nice too.Well ACDSee isnt compatible, iPhoto would move all my files to my mac, & there doesnt seem to be a photo organizer/viewer for mac from what i can find. I tried to Adobe bridge thing and that doesnt seem to help with what i need to do.
Is there a plugin i can get to view the folder contents instead of just blue solid folders to help me with this issue? Does anyone know of a good photo organizer/viewer that works similar to ACDSee I can download? Or am i pretty much screwed to revert back to using bootcamp to design which is 99% of the time i am using my computer?Is there a way to simply run that one application in mac?
Sorry for the book but just wanted to be sure i explained everything to hopefully help you understand my problem and solution i am seeking.Thank you very much for any help you can give.