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"ASMx4" wrote in message
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> You raise some interesting questions, bobb...particularly about
> finding specific pics several years later. That forces me to
> re-evaluate how I'm doin it.
>
> First, I use XP's scanner and camera wizard, whenever possible, to
> transfer from camera to pc...it makes it a little easier to rename
> pics during the transfer process, especially when there a pics on the
> camera from several different subjects...high school dance, scenery,
> family get-together as an example.
>
> Second, I create a series of folders by the year;
>
> \\Pictures
> \2007
> \2008
> And then descriptive folder names underneath that...
> \2008-01 (Jan)-27 Snowboarding
> \2008-02 (Feb)-9 HS Musical on Ice
>
> Because we visit WDW so often, I have a seperate folder for that,
> under...
> \\Pictures\Walt Disneyworld
>
> ... and again, divide them by the year/trip
>
> \\Pictures\Walt Disneyworld\WDW-2004
> \\Pictures\Walt Disneyworld\WDW-2006 VIDEO CLIPS
>
> I also created a "Temp" folder under \\Pictures. I'll copy pics into
> the temp folder for editing. Usually I just do some cropping for the
> Mrs. scrapbooking so they don't need to be saved after there edited
> and I just delete them. (well, ok...there's currently 500+mb of pics
> in my temp folder but, I know it's no biggie if they disappear.)
>
> A couple things that are helpful,
> DELETE, DELETE, DELETE!
> ...as soon as posible after transfering them to the pc, get rid of the
> crappy pictures. you know, the pics of your thumb, totally black pics,
> totally outa focus pics, and the like. (I still stumble upon too many
> of these taking up lotsa hard drive space.)
>
That's exactly what brought this up .. today weather cold/windy so I
started cleaning up recent trips and so far have 321 "duplicate files" =
2.33Gb in trash. Like you I had a few temp folders and finished
renaming/copying/moving most but not ALL of them. For many videos (use
Newport Jazz Fest) I had 4 copies of same video - one in the TEMP folder,
one in a Newport Folder, and one in a NJF/which day folder - they all had
DSC00 format and the one in NJF/2007 folder had the "correct name" (
BBKing1.avi etc ). After deleting the other 3 I now can't quickly view by
"which day did he play", but I have them all by year. If I later want to
view for the Ray Charles video, I'll have to check each year's folder to
find it. THAT's what I meant by "years later tough to find", but as time
goes by maybe I'll just move them from NJF to "Live Concerts" and see
them all there.
> http://rename.lupasfreeware.org/
> a free, simple, straight forward file renameing program. Takes 30
> seconds to figure out how to rename 100 pictures at once...very easy.
> I have thousands of pics with names like HPIM6041.JPG and IMG_1066.JPG
> and it drives me nuts. Anyway, your point about finding certain pics
> years later is a good one. Maybe giving the pics very descriptive
> names, and then searching for pics by name, is the only real world way
> to find them later...I'm VERY open for suggestions/ideas on that part
> myself. (The only other thing I can think of is "Thumbnail View" and a
> really, REALLY big monitor! or, that connector thingy on the back of
> our head..you know, from the movie "Matrix"? That'd be cool!)
>
What I do is when in that Temp folder (just imported) and I know that
DSC0055.jpg thru DSC00233.jpg are " Disney" pix (e.g.) I highlight
DSC00233 and Shift+Up Arrow (or Shift+PageUp) until all files up to
DSC0055 are highlighted, then right-click on DSC0055 and RENAME. To keep
in that order I rename to
WDW2007 (1).jpg
and all of those will get renamed to
WDW2007 (2).jpg
WDW2007 (3).jpg etc
[ if you leave off the (1), then IT has no number in its name and goes to
end of order next time you view them.]
My problem comes from copy/moving/renaming/editing movies to trim the
unneeded parts . The DATE of the file becomes the date I edited and can't
know when it was originally taken. So when 'looking for a file from a few
years ago from WDW", if I didn't edit it THEN, then I have wrong time
stamp.
Also, sorting by year is handy when taking a trip every few months UNTIL a
few years later when I don't remember " Did we go to Savannah in 2005 or
2006 ?". THEN I wish I had sorted it by location with year subfolder.
>
>>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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