That's a great help, Wes, many thanks.
Pres
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Sorry about the confusion with the path names. Apparently my tabbing
didn't work as I thought it would.
The directory structure is
\Genealogy
\Genealogy\Documents\
\Genealogy\Documents\FamilyName\
\Genealogy\Documents\FamilyName\FirstNameYYYY (BirthYear) - if needed.
The longest pathname would be 45 characters if I can count right. The
max is supposed to be 256.
Doing this allows me to keep all relevant documents and photos in a way
that I can instantly find them. That last line is the longest you will
have.
For my own reasons, I duplicate the structure for Legacy use. I could
simply point to the Genealogy folder in Legacy, but I keep a lot of
documents that do not necessarily need to be used as source material.
They are there to provide additional historical information. Since I
was a history major in college, I tend to keep things that others might
find insignificant for their purpose.
In the Legacy PHOTO structure, I only keep the WEB sized JPG's of my
photo's. For the most part, I scan a photo to a TIFF file. This is in
the \Genealogy\Photo\ area. I then use Photoshop Elements to add info
to the IPTC data. This is just like writing on the back of a picture.
I then save this twice. Once as the standard TIFF file, then once with a
-EDIT after the name. The first file is never, ever, touched. The
second file is used for any editing that is needed and saved as a final
TIFF file. Once all that is done, I will save it as JPG. This file is
still rather large but will be OK to email to someone else. I will then
crop the photo to a head shot or something similar and SAVE for WEB.
This allows me to take a 1.2 mb file and reduce it to about 350-450 k.
This is what gets stored in the Legacy photo file and, eventually, to
the web.
For my backups, I use COBIAN to backup both the Genealogy Directory and
the Legacy directory, Each goes to a different external hard drive.
Once a week, I take an image copy of those hard drives. Of course, I do
a standard backup of my database every time I shut down Legacy.
Other people have vastly different ways of doing things. This is just
the scheme I worked out years ago when God was a child and I was still
in knee pants. My first software package was Brothers Keeper on a DOS
machine with 2 floppy drives.
I hope this helps with your thinking. There are as many ways to
organize as there are people. In the end, it is what works for you that
really matters.
Oh, if you haven't guessed, I'm a belt and suspenders guy.
Wes
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