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Post by dicklaxt on Jun 10, 2015 20:39:59 GMT
Okay I got everything I need to keep on stumbling ,,,,smile
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2015 9:52:15 GMT
Dick..... As you can see 'different strokes for different folks' and if a system works for you then that's fine but typically once you start with a method it gets hard to consider that there may be other/better ways. Some years ago I used to run evening classes in Photoshop. I always advocated using a card reader - either built into the machine or separate through a usb cable. When asked why I explained that I didn't like to have my expensive camera on a cluttered desk, attached via a cable that I may accidently tug on or trip over and thus damaging the camera. One evening I forgot my card reader so had to connect the camera to the laptop directly. When clearing away at the end of the session I packed up the laptop - with the camera still connected. Gravity took over and it hit the floor with a resounding thud - but survived fortunately. On the issue of renaming files and making a hierarchy of named folders. This is hard work. LR and Elements don't have a problem with duplicate image numbers because they also consider the date/time taken in order to avoid duplicates -possibly even the folder name. Trying to make a sensible folder/file name that can be used for image recall can be difficult. You have a shot of Aunty Mabel, at the beach, with the grandchildren, Jamie and Lola, plus the pet dog, having a barbecue, in October. Which of these parameters is important enough that you'll want to find it again and then use as a folder or file name; and can you group all the shots with the pet dog on the beach but without Aunty Mabel in October. Just leaving the file names as they come out of the camera is easy. Applying keywords(tags) for each of these parameters, using LR or Elements allows you to recall the shots pretty much instantly and with combinations of keywords. So, all shots with Aunty Mabel; all shots with Jamie; all shots with Jamie and Lola; all shots with the pet dog and Jamie and Aunty Mable.......and so on. Also should you need to find the actual folder that the image is in then both LR and Elements can point this out to you and even open that folder. Confused even more, Dick?  What ever happened to the shoe box under the bed? Colin |
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dicklaxt
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Post by dicklaxt on Jun 11, 2015 10:40:31 GMT
Colin I like your style,,,,smile, but lets face it I don't have the moxy to really set up an elaborate recall sysytem nor do I really need one.I'll come up with something that works for me and is better than what I was doing before.
Thanks again all for your input. I didn't think this post would get as much play as it has when I posed the question. It just goes to show the interaction available from the members.
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Post by Bayla on Jun 11, 2015 10:54:12 GMT
I have found this thread to be extremely informative, and has given me much food for thought, mainly because my stuff is a mess, a nightmare. I have photos in My Pictures, photos on two different locations on an external hard drive (& backed up to a second one) plus all my scrapbooking stuff only on the external hard drives. Some pictures are filed by date, some by place, some by name! Some photos are in Organiser (PSE9) but many aren't. I have about a quarter of my scrapbooking supplies organised on ACDSee, but the rest isn't. I plan to upgrade from Lightroom 2 to Lightroom 6 and start using that for organisation but I first need to have a thoroughly good housekeeping session to get everything in order.
I could do with one of those people who come in and organise your house for you, you know the ones who say 'You need six 80L Rubbermaid boxes and eight 40L ones etc.', and then go and tell you exactly what to do with all the stuff, what to chuck out....
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Post by cats4jan on Jun 11, 2015 10:59:51 GMT
Bayla - I feel your pain. When I scrapbook, I use one kit because it's too
much trouble to find odd pieces to use.
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Post by dicklaxt on Jun 11, 2015 11:12:16 GMT
Bayla you crack me up LOL. I know your pain I have had the things in a mess problem too. The sure fire way to straighten it out is to have the computer crash or a user screw up so that you lose everything. This has happened to me more times than I want to think about and I have lost many cherished images because I failed to organanize but worse still i failed to back it up. You at least have a possible trail to follow,I on the other hand must blaze a new trail. LOL
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Post by Bayla on Jun 11, 2015 11:53:51 GMT
I'm obsessive about backing up my photos and scrapbooking supplies. Forgot to mention I have a third small (1TB) external HD which travels with me. I trust that all three external HDs won't give up on me at the same time!
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 11, 2015 15:59:59 GMT
I wonder if there would be any paying demand for an online photo/file organizing business ?
If I better understood the technicalities, I would like to do this as a sideline.
You could never tell it from my better half's packrat/hoarding tendencies that overwhelm me, but I enjoy organizing.
As for computer's crashing, as a general rule, there is usually nothing wrong with the hard-drive; it is more often some other component that has caused the computer to fail.
Some years ago, I bought a device that connects a working computer to a (removed) hard-drive and reads it as if it were any other external storage device.
I have rescued files from several of our relative's failed computers.
Some people even make special boxes/racks that hold a number of hard-drives and, using such a device as mine to make the connection, use these hard-drives as if they were purpose-made external hard-drives; the price is right, as just about every computer one sees in the dumpster has a perfectly good hard-drive (or two) in it.
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 11, 2015 16:08:50 GMT
colinofskye,
You are not the only one I have read about that has yanked there camera off the counter-top when it was attached to a laptop; apparently it is a quite common occurrence; everyone that has done so is quick to advocate the use of a card-reader.
Another common camera killer is a shutter-release cable; Ol' Spot or one of the youngen's is sure to get tangled and the tripod and camera come crashing to the ground, maybe even get drug across the yard; far better to use a wireless.
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What ever happened to the shoe box under the bed?
