>This is the old school method of file saving, and it's quite >inefficient, and needs to go. While I'll miss it myself, I know there >are better ways and I'm determined to learn them.
It may be old school, but it works for me. Although your example is something that I don't do. Maybe I'm just now *that* organized.... but I would never put photos of dear old Uncle George's wedding in multiple locations. As it is, I don't even get along with Uncle George all that well. If I shot it in 2008, it'd go into a 2008 top level folder and then probably a folder called Weddings and then "Dear Old Uncle George". That'd be about it. >Specifically: In this system, a photo of Uncle George's wedding in >2008 must be duplicated several times. One copy goes to the folder >2008, one to the folder "Uncle George", one to the folder "Family >weddings", etc. etc. You could easily have the 20 copies of the same >picture! Wow... are you, like a professional organizer? If so, I can see how they command so much money... :-P >What an incredible waste of space, I agree. Your example is a tremendous waste of space. My way isn't, however. >FAR superior is a filing system where the picture is "tagged". The >same picture can then exist in 100 different "folders" (actually >search terms), but only one file needs to be backed up. Yeah.. if only that program existed.... >But you're right, currently only the jpeg format offers tagging, And that really sucks when you shoot in a raw mode too. So much for tagging. But then again, I don't get along all that well with Uncle George - ever since he got drunk and made a big scene at Aunt Betty's sister's daughter's nice's birthday party. >some apps will gleefully strip the tags and other metadata without >warning! This is why I wish MS would get off their butts and just make >it a part of the file system itself. I'm not really waiting for MS to resolve the problem. From what I understand, there are other OS' out there too. Larry ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
