You won't lose them, the files don't go anywhere. It's finding them that is the problem.
Here's a scenario. Today, I go to a local cemetery and load the files into the folder for that date. I get distracted before I can get to tagging them properly. Tomorrow, I go out to shoot a parade. I'm able to get that tagged and it's all good. Some time later, I'm looking through my tags and I can't find some pictures that I know I shot. I don't remember when I shot them, so having them stored by date is useless unless I want to trawl through my entire catalog. Using a temp location to organize things gives me a buffer in case I'm not able to take care of them right away, and my permanent storage is on another computer, so I know that when I file them, I've done just about all that I'll do to them. Dated folders only helps if you remember the dates that you shot everything you've ever shot. I have no idea when I shot that hockey game in 2004, but I know that I filed them in my sports | Hockey | team vs team folder. I can find them via tagging in LR, but if I ever need to find them in the file structure, the tags are of no use. I'm trying to keep some redundancy for when I'm not using LR anymore and I need to move on to the next software package. A detailed file structure does that for me (I do the same thing with iTunes and all the music that I have ripped. I want to know exactly where the files are, and how to get to them). On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:08 AM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011-03-13 23:41 , David Parsons wrote: >> >> I don't want to put the files into >> permanent storage right away because if I don't take care of tagging >> when right away, I'll lose them in the storage areas and my tagging >> will be useless. > > trying to understand this -- how can you lose them? > > i just import files and use the catalog; i can easily see what i haven't > tagged yet, even if i put it off (i have plenty of gaps in tagging, and go > back to them when i can) > > >> IMO, using dated folders for permanent storage is kind of a bad idea >> if you ever need to find the files in the future. > > how do dated folders make it hard to find files? i suspect there's an > assumption i'm missing > > -- > 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. > -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- 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.
