> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Godfrey DiGiorgi > > > I know that there are people who claim that you don't need to sort > the raw files into meaningful directories, and that's just fine until > you make a disk of jpegs for someone who wants to find something > without using lightroom. > > ?? >
You may need to make a distinction here between where you put the raw files and where you put any 'finished' output files for distribution. If you're not using LR as the management system for the output files then, duh, you need to use something else, and that could be the operating system with its folder structure. If I were keeping output files though I'd give some serious thought to using LR, so that everything is handled the same way. > Everyone needs to put the image files into some sort of "meaningful" > directory structure. I don't. I put all the raw files in a single folder with no hierarchical organisation beneath it. Lightroom itself builds the date-based indexes (which may be implemented as folders, but that's of no concern to me), and I use a combination of keywords and collections to group things together and make them easy to find. There is no need whatsoever to devise a structure outside of Lightroom if you are using only Lightroom to access the raw files, which is my situation. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't devise such a structure if that suits you, but it is not a need, because LR can do anything that the file system can do. > By date, by job, by category, by location, > whatever. Lightroom's automation tools allow it to assemble the file > repository into a date ordered structure. Beyond that, it can't know a > better way to organize them automatically to suit your needs. > > I use a lightly tweaked date-based file structure. That lets me use the > Lr automation as much as seems appropriate, and extend it as > appropriate. > > G -- 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.
