On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 2, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > >> My organizational needs are different between film and digital. I >> don't edit the files the same way, I can't usually organize film scans >> by the day they were shot and the day they were scanned is useless to >> me since I might have scanned a half-dozen rolls of varying vintage >> that day (Among other things, I'm rescanning my archives). So using >> the same folder heirarchy makes little sense to me. > > Why? > > The way I put things in the directory structure reflects the day I import > them, enter them into my photo management system in other words. If the > files are from some other day, the datestamp I use on their names reflect > when they're from. You can also set their creation date in metadata from > within LR. > > But if I wanted to manage them differently, fine: Just put them where I want > them and import them. > > You just don't like LR and are fabricating rationale against it. Nothing > wrong with that. Don't use it. > > G
No, I don't like LR's file management and am explaining why. My film scan organization makes a lot of sense for my needs as it allows my negatives and my scans to be organized identically and thus finding scans for a given neg sheet and vice versa is pretty much instantaneous, while my digital files get organized is the simpler date-based heirarchy most use. I have no idea why one would want to organize negatives based on date of import or scan rather than date of shooting or roll index. Of course, if it works for you, go for it. LR makes more work for me, not less. The more work could possibly be justified if I chose to make use of keywording to enable simpler searching, but I don't as the combination of the up-front work to keyword initially is off-putting and the search functionality is something I just don't really use (I don't use search much in the filesystem either, despite both OS X's and Windows excellent and powerful filesystem search capabilities). You seem unable to understand the idea that LR's work-saving features can actually create more work in some situations. Using LR requires me to do more work than using Bridge and my heirarchical filing system. This slows down my workflow rather than easing it. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
