I was wondering how you prefer to save your files? Not where but what ie, do you save a copy of each image to a drive as a copy not to be touched just an untouched back up to go back to if needed and a separate copy to a different drive / file of your edit?
I ask because as I learn more about editing I would like to go back and re process some photos I did years ago but I only saved the final edit back then
On D: Drive, I have a few folders I call
Archives on the root, in addition to my User files. For example...
D:\Archives
D:\Archives, Bitmaps
D:\Archives, Documents
D:\Users\...
The usual Windows' own folders like
My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, Saved Games, Contacts, Desktop, blah, blah, blah is on D:\Users (redirected from C:\) plus any of my own folders I created , such as
Workflow.
Archives, as the name imply, is usually where I would save my photos or any work I have completed, and left alone as originals, with no more editing to do, no more updating.
Workflow, as the name imply, is where I do some work, not in this folder alone, it do have other sub-folders. This is where I'm doing some work such as editing a photo, or still writing and editing a document.
After I take photos, I would import the originals into Archives, or I would download wallpapers, then import into Archives, Bitmaps.
If I start a new file, say doing a graphic design work or writing a novel, I would start in the Workflow folder (not really in the actual Workflow folder itself, there are sub-folders in there.)
Or I would copy an image file from Archives and import into Workflow, then do some editing.
When completed, the file gets renamed, and transferred into Archives, making sure I do not over-write the originals. (If I complete a novel, I move it to Archives, Documents as an example.)
Since Archives hardly change, expect for any new files added to it, I manually back it up when I know I had put in some new files.
But files in Workflow keeps getting updated, I'm doing editing to images, writing a novel, and doing editing to it, anything like that, therefore Workflow folders gets automatic back up every half hour.
Hope that helps give you ideas?
