John,
At first I thought you were reiterating what I had just explained, then I
realized that this was in response to the post *before* my more in depth
description. Great minds, and it would seem even ours.
As a fr’instance, looking at last months directory, the path is:
/Volumes/photo_bb/photo_04/pictures_2022b/2210
And the folders in October’s directory are:
221001_lemons
221002_lestat
221022_d_dove
I do split years up into six month chunks, and they are split across multiple
drives but yeah:
year, month and folder by date, with topic, and separated with underbar because
0x20 causes difficulties.
pictures_yyyy/yymm/yymmdd_topic
> On Nov 14, 2022, at 6:54 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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