> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Charles Robinson > > On Jul 20, 2012, at 15:45, Bob W wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > How do you back these up? I arrange mine by year/month for each > collection so that after a while I can make an offsite backup of any > particular year/month folder. > > If they're all in one big huge directory... how do you do that? > I use Synctoy to keep the backup folder and the main folder in sync.
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