> On Jan 2, 2024, at 11:21 AM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > My basic file system: Folders = YYYY-Master for values of YYYY from 2002 to > 2024. Subfolders are yyyy - 01Jan, yyyy - 02Feb, etc. I use a similar > approach for image naming, renaming on import to yyyymmdd-NNxxxxx.dng, > building onto the in-camera naming sequence preceded by a camera designator > such as K1a, K1b, 645Z... > > Space permitting, current year and previous year reside on my internal drive. > Whenever I do a major import or editing session, I copy the YYYY-Master to a > YYYY-Copy x, Copy x+1, etc. folder on 1 or two hard drives. If I go on a > trip, current and prior year’s YYYY-Copy x+1 is copied to a 2 TB SSD to take > along, both for en route backups from the laptop, but also in case I want to > go back into something from a few months ago. Back home, I copy from the SSD > to my internal drive in the appropriate YYYY- month folder(s) and then in LR > I point at those and have LR Synch.
This is very close to my directory tree. Long term is basically Year/month/shoot with shoot named yymmdd_mnemonic Under the shoot directory I may split things out as convenient, by person being photographed, set of photos in a panorama, type of airplane, then individual airplane. There may be multiple "shoot" directories that all start off with the same date: 240102 Or there may be several days in the same shoot directory with a date arbitrarily chosen for the naming. So, I basically import into ~/photos_fresh/shoot Organize the shoot directory/directories (if I import from different cameras into different directories) Do all of my processing, then I'd move the shoot directory tree: ~/photos_fresh/240102_example into its final resting place: /mnt/photo_bb/2024a/2401/240102_example > > When I take pictures around home, I import via LR directly to my internal > drive in the appropriate month’s directory. > > For me, I found that using named folders (e.g., Birds, Water Falls, baseball, > …) led me down too many rabbit holes, and I keep my folders by date. All > other cataloging is done first via key wording on import, I started out doing something like that, but ran into the same rabbit holes that you did I'm sure. I now do a mixture of the two, the date is the primary organization, but the same "date" might have several mnemonic trees: 230712_march_afb/bombers/b25 > modified/extended key wording during review/editing, and then Catalogs for > gathering images of some category or another. Annual favorites, Selections > from November trip, Macro Flowers, … When I am working on a photo book, I > drop selected images into catalogs/sub-catalogs in my preliminary preparation > phase. I also make use of catalogs and key wording. > > One exception to my rule about sticking to YYYY folders: I do have a folder > on my internal drive labeled Current Exports. Basically temporary storage for > images to post as a PESO, GESO, on FB, or send in an email to friends. Such > images typically have been given a reasonably high star rating in LR. I can > easily delete or lose the Current Export images and re-locate them within LR > by doing a screen by ratings. I also have an extensive methodology of rating which is beyond the scope of this discussion. I do wish that I could more easily set things up so that a photo could have multiple ratings, either by myself and someone doing another pass, or for different goals, but that is a whole nuther kettle of worms. > > In your work flow, you mention “moving directories” from one place to > another. Are you using the OS to do this? Or are you doing this within LR? I have learned from painful experience to move the directories using lightroom. It is in this process that lightroom expands, contracts, and moves around the hard drives in its folders panel -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from ret13est -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
