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By: Ronnica

Ronnica — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:39:00 +0000

I like your system. Mine are by event within their years. Those that aren’t tied to anything special (everyday life) are just left in the main year folder. I don’t have a ton, so it works for me.

By: MBB Founder and Editor Denene Millner

MBB Founder and Editor Denene Millner — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:24:00 +0000

Oh how I wish I were that organized. I’m pretty good about downloading, but putting them into folders and naming and all that? Uh, not so much. Luckily, my handy MacBook does categorize downloads by date, though, which is great.

By: JourneytoFamily

JourneytoFamily — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:11:00 +0000

I never understand it when people leave their pictures on their memory card and 6 months later still haven’t downloaded the pics to their computer. As soon as I take a picture, I head straight to the computer to download it (and erase it off the memory card).

By: mytwolittlewonders

mytwolittlewonders — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:14:00 +0000

Okay, I’ll just say it. You are so much smarter than I am!!!

Hey, my new blog for the year has changed titles to http://www.mytwolittlewonders.blogspot.com

Shonda

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:02:00 +0000

Great post! I get tired of saying…cause most people Don’t Listen, until it’s too late!

By: dianne - bunny trails

dianne - bunny trails — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:18:00 +0000

Good post, Darcy. This was quite the quandary for me for awhile. I think I finally have it down. But I never erase pix off my memory card until they’re stored in a minimum of two other places – laptop and CD/DVD. Although these days, I also upload “some” to Flickr, “some” to Shutterfly/Snapfish, and I back up onto an external hard drive. I also once made a complete backup of ALL my photos onto DVDs and took them to my mom’s house. I’ve read far too many stories of people whose computer crashed and they LOST all their pix. That’s a scary, scary thought. I do my best not to be there.

Looking forward to the rest of your series!

By: HeathahLee

HeathahLee — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:51:00 +0000

It drives me nuts to have too many pictures on my camera, so I download frequently, but I don’t think I’m quite as organized as you are. I do put them in separate files, but I’m afraid I won’t remember what file I put them in 6 months from now!

By: Emmy

Emmy — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:25:00 +0000

My heart is pounding – LOL – I pray you are going to tell people to back up their photos in your next post.

BTW…I am a rabid fan of your blog but I respectfully disagree on your viewpoint of *not* taking photos at the highest resolution possible. For one thing, a higher resolution allows for a higher quality image after cropping. It could be I’m just a photo geek though and I can’t imagine having the potential for higher quality and not taking advantage of it. As cheap as photo storage is these days (and I’m talking external hard drives) there’s no reason to worry about image size. JMHO of course!

By: Becoming Me

Becoming Me — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:38:00 +0000

Great post and great blog

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:55:00 +0000

Wow- I always thought I was being overly granular, but I'm doing almost exactly what you suggest for folder structure. The one difference is that I use all numbers and repeat the year/month in subfolders: 2008 > 200812 > 20081225. But I chalk that up to being a programmer nerd.

(@ToddPM)

By: Rhea

Rhea — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:41:00 +0000

I need photo storage advice and suggestions, so I eagerly await the next post. I’m great about taking tons of photos and downloading (uploading?) them immediately off the card…and organizing pretty well…but they’re now taking up way too much room on my hard drive and I’m not backed up either. Except by putting most everything on Shutterfly, so I guess that counts…kind of.

By: Mrs. S

Mrs. S — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:50:00 +0000

What good advice!! Thanks!

By: mama's got moxie

mama's got moxie — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:44:00 +0000

great post!!

By: mama's got moxie

mama's got moxie — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:44:00 +0000

great post!!

By: SKELLER

SKELLER — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:01:00 +0000

Darcy-
Bless your sweet heart. I totally needed this tutorial last year this time!!!
So, I’ve been a good girl this year. I’ve downloaded everything regularly (gotta get my blog fodder, y’know), backed everything up to the house network, mostly burned all the originals to disks, too. BUT.

But my mac’s been a bad bad boy this year. I think everything has broken on it. Stoopid lemon computer. Good thing Big Dude had the foresight to buy that care package with it. The latest? The harddrive. sob.

So even tho I’ve got everything backed up. And I’ve transferred everything over to my new ‘puter, I can’t get LR to “see” any of my edits. Apparently that involves “finding” them all with a new path. And I’m soooo not about finding a new individual path for 10k photos. Still working on that solution. sigh. All I want to do is take pretty pictures. I never wanted to become some sort of techie wizard.

Wow. That soliloquy came out of left field. Gotta scoot and get bfast for the dudes…

By: Marsha Marsha Marsha

Marsha Marsha Marsha — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:43:00 +0000

Great advice! I wasn’t sure if I’d like filing by exact date but now that I’ve gotten used to it, I wouldn’t have it any other way.

By: Becca

Becca — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:43:00 +0000

We also download frequently and organize by date. We do have some older files from when we first got a digital camera that need to be better organized. Can’t wait to read what’s coming next!

By: Ruthanne

Ruthanne — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:20:00 +0000

Great counsel! I feel like I download pics off my camera EVERYDAY! ;D We use the same kind of organizational system – everything is under dates. I’ll be waiting for the next installment! ;D

By: Sandy Toes

Sandy Toes — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:27:00 +0000

Do you think that flimsy media card will be outdated???:)

Great ideas…I wish I was an organized as you..I have one HUGE, MEGA file..I need to break it down!
-sandy toe

By: Gwendolyn

Gwendolyn — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:11:00 +0000

Thank you! I’m going to send my husband to read this…he keeps putting the picturs on the computer, but he lables them with odd things like “new pictures”. This is driving me crazy. Maybe if someone else tells him to date them, it will sink in. LOL