For those that travel a lot and take pix/videos on vacation and store them
on your PC ... have you found one way that works better than another ?
Make travel folders by ... Location ? Time ? ( FLA - 2007 then month ?)
I find that WHILE on vacation, I'm dumping from camera into one folder per
day
Day 1 - Miami Tour , Day 2 - Fishing
Day 3 - Beach etc , and just dump all pix/videos into that folder and
then erase the stick.
I rename/edit them later ( on a rainy day of the trip or when I get home).
When I get home I copy all of it to my desktop PC ( lots of disk space).
Sometimes I'm returning to one location ( say FLA) so want to separate by
year rather than dump into one big FLA folder. After a few trips in the
past few months I'm finding that the "Library" disk on my desktop PC was
getting rather full and just did a search for video thinking maybe I had a
few copies of travel videos and found I had sometimes a few copies of same
file ( the camera dump in one folder and the "perhaps edited" "finished
product" in another for example). I was able to delete a lot of them and
when I saw the folders I can see why I created each folder at the time,
but now wondering what is best way ??
When copying to desktop I was filing by time frame ( Travel - Location -
Yr - Month etc) in a folder such as
Travel - FLA- Keys - 2007 ( or WDW or Fishing) etc and I'm thinking ...
in a few years I'll be trying to find a file and not know which trip it
was from.
So file them by
Location ? Then Video OR pictures ? Time ?
Or dump all video/pix into one folder by location then subfolder ?
Travel - Fla- WDW -
Travel - Fla- WDW - 2007
Travel - Fla- Fishing
Travel - Fla- Fishing -2007 - Pictures
Travel - Fla- Fishing -2007 - Video
or
Travel 2007 - FLA .... and a few years from now I'll have to open each
folder to find a particular picture ?
OR
I'll find them and not know which trip ( year) it happened ( - who cares ?
you say - maybe you're right - that's what I'm asking for those that HAVE
done this already)
I've got a few extra 300gb drives that I'm gonna be using soon but , for
now, have alot of disk space to move/organize/put back what I've got and
get organized.
Thanks,
Bobb
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