should you have need of suchthe External Assets folder of the XAR file
if you don't have need for this a thumbnail may be all that is required
should you have need of suchthe External Assets folder of the XAR file
if you don't have need for this a thumbnail may be all that is required
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As as XAR/WEB has its own Preview file (a.k.a., Thumbnail) embedded, why can you not just use View (Size) Icons in MS Explorer? The answer is MS Windows indexing is naff and slow, despite @Gary's assertion.
That's why I use 'Everything' instead.
You use "External Assets" every time you drop an MP3/4 or PDF into a Xara design.
Why not use that folder to work for your DAM needs?
When you are building sometime as complex as a website and have a client then versioning and prototyping is important.
You cannot afford to lose the client's source material or let it float about and end up in someone else's work.
Versioning is invariably essential in manuscripts and even sketching.
Overwrite it and it's gone. We still get people saving their design file as index.xar, wondering where the previous one went to.
Acorn
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We are playing semantics here maybe...
I have project/asset folders sure, but xar files are just one component, no different to any other file therein
My reading of the OP is that their situation is the same
asset folders do not, for me, belong to any program, they are just ...asset - to be used for what ever purpose arises
they are named and collated meaningfully
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If all the OP is after is a view similar to Eagle for .XAR files only then use Everything.
It respects the existing folder structure, allows for multi-file previews and has set saved searches.
If you need to include Categories or Tags then some external linked meta-file is needed.
Obsidian does this.
My suggested approach oomphs all this to an integrated asset usage management system at little extra effort and no cost.
Acorn
Acorn - installed Xara software: Cloud+/Pro+ and most others back through time (to CC's Artworks). Contact for technical remediation/consultancy for your web designs.
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I understand what you say - both everything and obsidian look like useful tools
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