I just don't think there's any point to maintaining hierarchical folders beyond what Lr does for you itself.
If you need to find the original files, locate the image(s) in Lr, right-click and select Show in Finder. Bingo! I basically keyword all shots using something like Bob's Who/What/Where system, along with some extras like Issues (soft, oof, under/over-exposed). I do maintain hierarchical tags, but make sure they don't export meaningless parent tags so the EXIF isn't cluttered. These automatically show up in Flickr when uploaded and help folks find my shots in searches. On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:29 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > Y'all act as if you have to choose between key wording & hierarchical > folders. > > From: "Bob W" >>> >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >>> Walt >>> >>> I'll be sure to keep in mind the keyword stuff. But, sadly, I'm just >>> horrible about doing stuff like that -- it's a procrastination thing, I >>> guess. >>> >>> Thankfully, I don't have many older photos, so it won't be a huge deal >>> -- at least until I put off adding keywords to my newer images for so >>> long that it gets to be too much of an ordeal to mess with. ;) >>> >> >> If you do the basic keywords (who, what, where, why) at the time you >> import >> the pictures you can avoid the procrastination problem. The keyword entry >> box is on the right hand panel of the import dialog. >> >> Keywords are more helpful and more flexible than deriving a folder >> structure, and it doesn't take any longer to use them. For example, if >> your >> folder structure is say \Holidays\Paris\Cafe de Rostand\Fifi\, just enter >> the keywords holidays, paris, Caf? de Rostand and fifi instead (I would >> make >> caf? a separate keyword). >> >> >> You're liberated from the tyranny of the fixed structure, and the problem >> of >> what to do with something that belongs in more than one folder, For >> example >> if Fifi also belongs in Family\Nieces\Pretend\ and in Mistresses\No >> longer\ >> you just include as keywords family, nieces, etc. You can search on any >> equal or proper subset of the keywords, in any order, rather than having >> to >> find your way through all the levels of a folder structure that you will >> lose track of. >> >> You can put keywords themselves in hierarchies if you want, although I >> stopped doing that a long time ago. For example, Europe > France > Paris, >> Europe > France > Lyon, Europe > Germany > Neuschwanstein. If you then >> keyword something as Neuschwanstein it will turn up in searches for >> Europe, >> without you having to put Europe as a keyword against the picture, and any >> search for France will include both Paris and Lyon. >> >> The problem, for me, is maintaining the hierarchies and also making sure >> that what you are doing is a real, genuine, hierarchy, and that's not >> always >> obvious until it's too late. A keyword can belong to more than one >> hierarchy, I think, so it's slightly better than a folder structure in >> (most) hierarchical file systems. >> >> B >> >> B > > > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
