On Jul 13, 2010, at 15:39, Bob W wrote: > > Because LR can do all of this, I don't do any organisation of the files > outside of LR. I import all the photographs into the same folder on disk, > and use the camera-assigned name for the file. I see no point in organising > them outside LR in parallel with LR. Other people take a different view and > have their own organisation on disk, and various strategies are recommended > by the authors of LR books. >
I agree with all of this, Bob. The only organization I do outside of LR (ie, before even importing them into LR) is to group into a "month" folder (2010_June, 2010_July, etc...) - this gives me a discrete collection of files which I can later back up. Typically (but not always) I have less than 4.7 gigs of images each month, which means I can both spin off a copy of the folder to a second harddrive AND burn a copy onto a couple of different DVDs. If I slopped everything into one huge folder I wouldn't have any handy way of grouping them for backup and the eventual move to "off-line" status. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
