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Yesterday, I formatted an old computer to make it a file server. I now have all my photos on an internal hard drive and also backed up on an external one.

While transferring the photos, I realised what a mess they were in. Been taking digital photos since 2003. Started with putting photos into folders that were tagged with the download date. Then I moved on from that idea and started to download photos into folders that were tagged by occasion. Does not always work as there are times when I'd take the camera and snap randomly without downloading them.

Sounds messy? Yes it does and it is

I was wondering how people organise their photos on their machines as I need :help:

Thank you.
 
Pretty much like you.
I have a folder for each year, then use named events to make them easy to find.
e.g. cars, christening, engagement etc.
But with the 365 I have started adding a folder for each day, I'm sure it'll get confusing before long!
 
I've just got a new latop and intend to keep it fairly organised. Got it filed by "interests" at the moment so I have a photo folder for cycling, one for motorsport etc but it might change. I like the idea of having a folder per year so I may incorporate that into it somehow.
 
I order by interest, area, activity or person depending on what I've been shooting. I find it easier to find stuff this way. Using Lightroom in my workflow made this and my finding of images soooo much easier :)
 
Folder by year does sound a better idea than my method which is basically an incremental number within the the subdivision of camera taken with i.e. Canon-01, Pentax-01, Scans etc.. I rely on the AcdSee database to tell me when I've taken them.
 
Which ever way you do it it does not quite work out. I have a folder for each family member and any random pictures just go in there (problem1 - more than one person on picture!), then I have each occasion in a folder (problem2 - sometimes there will just be a good picture of a person at an occasion so it makes them hard to find).

I tend to take so many pictures that I don't really have time to tag each one either so I just have to live with it!
 
I have a folder for the year, then inside that folder I have another folder which is named by date and the name event\area\interest the photograph are about. Then inside that folder will be all the photographs straight off the camera (in raw format) and another folder that holds any photograph from that event\area\interest that have been been processed.

I do this through a program called digikam 0.9.3 (on Linux) which use a small SQLlite database

While I find this ok for storage I really must get into the tagging the pictures as looking for particular pictures can be a arduous job.

Tim
 
I have a folder called "the most organised folder i have created to date"

its a mess :lol:

i tend to put weddings on wedding hard drive(s)
family on family hard drive

and the rest go on a hard drive named by what ever the event was called eg:

events in here goes all the events ive done
portrait shots by name and date and year
days out by location and date and year

Im not perfect though i must have thousands...tens on thousands of shots ive yet to sort out on older hard drives

7 hard drives in total
3 homebases
3 laptops

far to many CD'S to even count.

Lesson is find a good way and then stick to it but back up everything I MEAN EVERYTHING

Dave:thumbs:
 
Mine are strictly date ordered (year/d-m-y), but heavily keyworded so I can type what I want into Lightroom/Spotlight and find them like that.
 
Sounds good,
what's the best way to keyword your files? I don't have Lightroom incase that's how you do it.
I can imagine it being a right PITA coming home with 700 shots and having to keyword them all.
 
Folder per shoot date + event eg.

20090514 Garden party

Then each years photos are in their own yearly folder.

All this and the RAW's are also backed up to an external drive.

Keepers I reduce to around 5mb each via an action in photoshop all others that I may just want to refer to are reduced to JPEG quality 6 again via a photoshop action.

:)
 
cyclone said:
Sounds good,
what's the best way to keyword your files? I don't have Lightroom incase that's how you do it.
I can imagine it being a right PITA coming home with 700 shots and having to keyword them all.
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I use Lightroom, but I think you can do it in Bridge etc too.

I get all the basic keyword that apply to all the images, eg location, event and apply those in bulk (on import) then apply keywords to groups of images and only add the individual keywords for a particular image if it is a keeper etc.
 
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