On Oct 5, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Stan Halpin wrote: > I personally have found that the Option B or Option C approach is far > superior. I use the date subfolder approach, and have one higher-level folder > for each year. Using a keyword hierarchy within LR to tag and locate images > is far less busywork than using the folder-category approach, both when > importing the images and when working with them. LR is designed to serve as a > database organization tool for your images; use it that way. Yes, I suppose > that there is some small chance that LR may someday go wonky on you. I would > not give that more than a passing thought. I've used LR since version 1.0 or > 1.1 and have seen no reason for such concerns. The only other reason I can > see for the organize-folders-by-category approach is for convenience if/when > you ever switch to a different LR-like program. But even then, as part of > doing the switch, you could easily let LR create a folder structure for you. > E.g., sort/select by keyword, create a new folder, move selected images to > the new folder, repeat as needed until all images have been re-distributed > into a folder hierarchy.
You just might have persuaded me Stan. [1] I can see that limiting subfoldering to date categories could make importing less onerous. [2] As I said in response to another response, I have gotten pretty comfortable relying on tagging to retrieve information. I should also say that the latter is the case in an application in which reconfiguring/revising of the tagging system is easily done, e.g., you want to combine one tag with another? just rename one tag to the other and all the items will be tagged with the other tag. Another thing that makes me comfortable with tagging in this application is that there is a great deal of redundancy in information retrieval, e.g., in addition to tagging, there's a list of items by date of creation/last revision, an alphabetical list, a hierarchical tree structure -- which is actually a graphical representation of the tagging system -- and a very sophisticated search function. I wonder if there is similar, if not so extensive redundancy in LR. Again, I need to get started and stop asking questions, or at least to hold off until I've tried it and have more specific and better informed questions. I appreciate your willingness to respond to my less well informed questions anyway -- your's and everyone else's. Sincerely, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- 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.
