On 2011-03-14 00:21 , David Parsons wrote:
Using a temp location to organize things gives me a buffer in case I'm not able to take care of them right away,
okay, i think the comparable state to "in a temp folder" for me is "untagged" -- i can easily browse or search for untagged items, and since i tag more often than not, untagged items bunch up into easily visible group
so i guess the catalog serves that purpose for me; Godfrey's method of making a "note" image in Photoshop works too, but if i got that far i'd just batch-add a caption directly to the images i had just imported
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.
well that would explain some of why you're using folders for some of the organization for which i use the catalog
Dated folders only helps if you remember the dates that you shot everything you've ever shot.
i don't claim that dated folders help me find files, i just didn't understand why you'd say they'd make it hard; since i use the catalog to find files (even those that are untagged), the folder scheme makes little difference; dated folders do make it simple to move batches of images to different disks (or to confirm that Aperture has done it properly)
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.
for me that basically means pushing the tags into the master files
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).
i have a very large iTunes library, and i used to manage folders by hand too, but i realized a few years ago (just as i did for the photos i was then organizing with iView Media Pro) that the metadata exposed in iTunes encapsulated every aspect of what i wanted to organize; so i've let go of the filing, i concentrate on making sure the metadata is correct and let iTunes use the metadata to create album/artist folders; the metadata is all saved with the files so i can rebuild my library from scratch if needed (well, iTunes has stopped writing rating info to the files, which i find annoying)
it does take a leap of faith to let go of the file system and to use metadata to organize ad hoc
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