On Jul 13, 2010, at 21:10, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2010, at 5:50 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: > >> 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. > > So the folders you create before importing are for backup purposes only, in > case you need them? You don't do any organizing within LR? I take it you do > organize "photos," i.e., edited versions of initial images?
I do a LOT of "organizing within LR" but I don't move the physical files around anywhere. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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.
