Thanks so much for this information, which is a revelation. Not understanding how to file, name and save all the originals and versions has been a huge obstacle to progress.
What happens to the original file names from the camera? Another mystery to me is this: how do you keep the files of 2 people who photograph the same things at the same time separate on a shared computer? When you have an external hard drive, as I understand it, your file system doesn't know that the images are stored somewhere else. Or does it? Your examples are a huge help. thanks for taking the time to provide them. Randy On Jan 9, 2006, at 5:02 PM, Jerry Freeman wrote: On Jan 9, 2006, at 12:44 PM, rangrsz263 at mac.com wrote: > When you use an external drive, do you need something like iView to > keep track of those files? I have iView but only use it for slideshows. I use the Finder and am an anal folders within folders filing system person and am meticulous about correctly naming files ie: orig_rose-25_06, edit_rose-25_06 or print_rose-25_5706. Where 57 indicates a 5x7 crop, 810, 1216, the rest self explanatory. I never crop an original or edit, only a duplicate is cropped then saved in the print folder. A client may latter ask for a 1216 and I'm had if I cropped my edit 57?danged if I will re-edit my original. I do a lot of black and white printing and those are named print_rose-25BW_5706 etc. These would be filed under Images_06, then Originals_06, Edits_06, or Prints_06. So a string might be Images_06/Prints_06/Prints_5706/ print_florals_5706/print_rose-25_5706. A Spotlight search on print_rose will yield every rose print file I ever made, in every size dating back to 2000 where my file system starts. With Spotlight I guess I could dump it all into one folder and find the stuff, but would "I" trust it? With Adobe Bridge, or now Lightroom I could come up with a more modern scheme?but doubt that I will...jf | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
