Jenny, thanks for the reply. Interesting the way you did it. That might be better than the direction I was heading
I was trying to to sub-folders for each last name and that just fell apart on some things. I am curious if you could share your entire folder structure (even offline if needed) like Certificates, News Paper Articles, Census Images (do you have sub folders under Census for the Census year?) What about obituaries? Do you have a list of your abbreviations like MC, BC, etc ? I am just trying to figure out how I might do that while taking out commas and spaces. Trying to take your example to the next level ... maybe something like: MC-Doe_John_Alan-123--Smith_Sara_Jane-987.jpg thanks for the info. I would love to hear other ideas. I need to start on a better standard and Best Practice before I get to far into things. Alan On 7/24/2010 4:00 PM, Jenny M Benson wrote: > I have folders named with a generic title, such as Certificates or > Newspaper Articles or Census Images. Within them I have sub-folders > such as Birth Certificates, Marriage Certificates etc. > > Most file names begin with an abbreviation based on the type of document > and include the name(s) of the people concerned (unless there are too > many to name them all and the RIN(s), so BC - Bloggs, Joe 123.jpg for > his Birth Certificate and MC - Bloggs, Joe 123 = Adams, Fanny 987.jpg > for their Marriage Certificate. > > Newspaper articles, filed in sub-folders named for the newspaper > concerned, comprise the subject's name and RIN, the name of the > newspaper and the issue date. > > I should mention that I did not take into account any possibility of > publishing to web pages when I named my files. If you might be going to > do this I believe you should avoid spaces and capital letters in your > filenames. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
