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Post by bigfish on Jun 24, 2017 21:02:13 GMT
Hello everyone!,
I am helping a friend consolidate her children / family pictures. Her husband past away last year and left 10+ hard drives full of pictures.
I transferred all the various (layers of sub-folders) folders to a pair of new WD HDD.
I have been using Elements Organizer on a PC since version 5 and love it. Don't know what I would have done without it.
I really want to recommenced PSE but she only uses a Mac and I have never used the Organizer on a Mac.
My question is.
Does the "watch folder" work the same way on a Mac?
If we put all these layers of sub-folders in the watched folder will it break down the folder structure so we can see the pictures by date?
Then we could use the "Move Command" to move the picture into at least Yearly folders.
I have all MY photos organized into Yearly with Monthly sub-folders, this works great for me.
Thank you!
Bill
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Post by michelb on Jun 25, 2017 20:35:14 GMT
Hello everyone!, I am helping a friend consolidate her children / family pictures. Her husband past away last year and left 10+ hard drives full of pictures. I transferred all the various (layers of sub-folders) folders to a pair of new WD HDD. I have been using Elements Organizer on a PC since version 5 and love it. Don't know what I would have done without it. I really want to recommenced PSE but she only uses a Mac and I have never used the Organizer on a Mac. My question is. Does the "watch folder" work the same way on a Mac? If we put all these layers of sub-folders in the watched folder will it break down the folder structure so we can see the pictures by date? Then we could use the "Move Command" to move the picture into at least Yearly folders. I have all MY photos organized into Yearly with Monthly sub-folders, this works great for me. Thank you! Bill Bill, I have no experience with Macs, but I don't think the 'Watched folders' option is a good idea, even if it seems it has been added to Macs in recent versions (at least the present PSE15). On a Mac or on Windows, you have to create a new catalog by importing all the media on your external drives. They can be on several drives for that catalog, no problem. The real question for your organization is about the folder structure of all the files in those drives. As you know, the organizer does not care. It uses the exif data and possibly the tags/captions already written to files. You can sort them by date without changing anything to the folder structure. Ideas: - What if the folder structure is the only way to extract the information to tag special events, places etc? I would keep that structure to apply those tags and categories before trying to move folders or subfolders. - While my present folder structure is also based on year and days since a number of years, I also keep older folder structures which don't fit easily in that scheme. There would be no problem to create such a date structure for new files, leaving the old structure unchanged. - When you import files from your camera, you can choose to let the downloader to create the date structure. Unfortunately, you can't create such a structure importing from 'Files and folders'. The workaround is to use a big card or thumbnail stick. You copy from the external drives to the card/stick by batches, and you import from there. That can take time with a big library like yours, but you end up with a single clean date structure for all your files. I can imagine such a process to consolidate all your files in a single folder structure on a big external drive. That would be faster than moving subfolders around anyway. However I would not risk losing the opportunity to tag events, places etc based on the subfolder names or information. |
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