Hi All,
Original Poster Here - I wanted to update folks a little on the
progress of Sorting out my 'File Management Woes'. I've mostly
finished my imports into Adobe Lightroom and it adds up to about 6,700
images :-). Whew. I've also weeded out most of my 'File Dupes' in the
process. Things are much more spacious on my HD's to the tune of about
30% on the External and 50% available on the Internal one.
Thanks All
Richard
On Oct 15, 4:33 pm, aussieshepsrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks to Everyone!
> You're input is very welcome and I'm sincerely grateful :-).
> I wanted to update what I've done since putting up my original
> posting.
>
> My Original Challenges are Prolific File Duplicates and Setting Up A
> Filing System (Mainly to ride herd on my photos).
>
> Equipment recap:
> G4 Mini/1g/1.25mhz/40g • 320gig My Book External / 40g & 250g
> partitions • 120gig External (Offline Backup of the Mini ) • External
> DVD Burner
>
> The first 'baseline' decision was to commit to Adobe Lightroom.
>
> My second decision was to 'Brute Force' my way through finding
> 'Duplicates'. I have an inordinate amount of time to fill up anyway.
>
> The third was to use the 40gig partition exclusively for Photo Files.
>
> I did a fresh clone of the internal drive, copied -essentially- all
> non-application & non-system files to the 250gig partition, and punted
> large swaths of those files to the trash. I freed up almost half the
> drive! :-)
>
> I copied the 40gig partition's contents to the 250 - After moving my
> beloved 'Busters 'Bones -n- 'CSI's to Opticals (where they actually
> ought to have been).
>
> I am now in the process of comparing Folders on the 250 using the Find
> command (set to search only the 250) and trashing the dupes I find (I
> compare file counts and total folder megabytes to make sure things
> match). I've tossed about 40gig's of dupes at this point.
>
> Once I've narrowed my Dupes via this method, I'll turn to Lightroom to
> import what's left and weed out the duplicate image files that way. I
> have lightroom set to 'copy' the originals to organized folders on my
> 40gig partition. I'll then use that program to weed out the crappy
> images and screw-ups, bring an order to the library by making
> collections and sub collections of images, Archive the keepers, then
> clear out space on the 250.
>
> I have a 40gig drive floating around I can use to backup the 40gig
> partition of the 320 My Book External onto. SuperDuper to the
> rescue :-).
>
> OH! I do know the difference between an archive and backup - I was
> only keeping 'partial backups' because I didn't know for sure what was
> archived or even what pictures were on the backups with total
> certainty. My goal is to have some certainty in my archiving and
> organization to 'KNOW' my next 'Clone' isn't going to write over a one
> of a kind file or photo.
>
> Anyway, I have hacked together a 'start' to my organizational process.
> I don't have a 'global' plan for archiving and organization set yet,
> but I'm thinking hard on it.
>
> Richard
>
> On Oct 14, 8:16 pm, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > On Oct 14, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Dan wrote:
>
> > > Every year or two I poke aruond at file managers, thinking I really
> > > should use one. And each time I talk myself out of it. They just
> > > don't do what I need/want. And it's not just images. I have the
> > > same problem with my music. I don't trust iTunes one bit.
>
> > Whereas for the "3,456 folders named 'Stuff'" organization-impaired
> > among us, iTunes and the like are godsends. They keep stuff findable
> > with out all the hassle of doing it myself.
>
> > --
> > Bruce Johnson
> > University of Arizona
> > College of Pharmacy
> > Information Technology Group
>
> > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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