Folders arranged in "YYYYMMDD_Topic" format?
That should arrange the folders in chronological order whatever OS is used.
You could have higher level folders for "YYYY" and put the
"YYYYMMDD_Topic" as sub-folders ... maybe even "YYYYMM" as an
intermediate level if he's likely to have a lot of individual "Topics"
"Topic" gives you some idea what the photos in the folder relate to so
if you have more than one group of photos on the same day you can have
all the "fishing" photos in one folder and the "old barn" photos in another.
Some OSs don't like spaces in folder names, so the '_' instead of a
space is a good idea.
On 11/11/2022 11:22 PM, Stan Halpin wrote:
Thanks Larry. Totally agree with both points: (1) file organization should be
such that it helps people find images, not just so that LR or other software
can find stuff. My brother has his CDs for example, well sorted by image
capture date. Which is fine if you have his calendar and list of key event date
times. And (2) I’ll test any possible solutions with a small sample.
I told my sister in law this evening that I had recovered 39,000+ Digital
images from 2000-2011. And I showed her a small sample from 2004. Her reaction:
“why did he keep those!?! I would have thrown those away!” In short, she won’t
be compulsive about retaining everything -she wants reasonable access to key
images of important times and places. (They both worked quite a bit outside the
U.S. and did much travel…) so my.challenge is to help her ID and organize what
is important to her, not necessarily what my brother would have wanted to
preserve.
If I had known I would be doing this, I would have started a year ago when my
brother still had the mental capacity to help with this project!
Stan
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On Nov 11, 2022, at 7:10 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote:
On Nov 11, 2022, at 3:57 PM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> wrote:
But, to the Question: Now that I have his scanned slides and digital images on
a hard drive, readable on their HP and on my Mac, I thought I would create a
new Lightroom Catalog on my system as a way to review/preview his images. And
then I would export-as-catalog to an external drive, and then import that to
their new HP. So, would this work? Will LR on a Windows machine read an LR
catalog created via LR on a Mac?
Everybody has their own way of organizing their Lightroom Catalog. I would
strongly recommend that the files themselves are organized in a manner that
makes photos relatively easy to find without using lightroom.
I don’t know for sure, but I strongly suspect that the catalog format is OS
independent, so long as the file trees are compatible. Again, I’d strongly
suggest testing with a smaller catalog first.
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