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How do you name your files?
My unprocessed files I name by the location I went to that day, and then the exif data time and date of the shot... so for example:-
monterey - 1-5-2005 15-37-10.jpg
I use ACDSee to do this in batches. What do you do?
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DSCFxxxx, I use folders
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Good question, Craig...
I'm like dewy... I rely on metadata (comments, keywords etc.) to manually categorise my images.
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I use
Downloader Pro which creates folders by date in my specified directory, then it batch renames my files by date (or whichever of the many tags I choose.)
So my CRW_1234.CRW gets renamed 1234_25Dec2004.CRW and placed in the 2004-12 folder of my New Images directory.
It also lets me enter a "job code" prior to downloading, so for example I can make the directory "2004-12-Wedding" or something descriptive like that.
Best utility I've got.
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My digital stuff is easy because my A2 creates new folders every time the date changes - and I move these date named folders directly to my PC. I leave the original digital images in their camera provided names because I never touch the originals. If I edit or retouch - I save it as a copy.
My film stuff is just a mess - when I scan a slide, it just goes in a folder called "New Stuff". Once the folder is backed up to DVD - I clear New Stuff and move to the files to some other folder name. At least all the scanned images are named by me - so I stand a chance of locating them. It is an extremely poor system - that one day I have to clean up.
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I store the originals by name: garden, Kiel, and so on.. In my garden folder I have subfolder garden1, garden2 ... From there I copy the one I want to play with and store it as pspimage in my folder called "jpgs" as I stored as pspimage I can come back and make some retouch if I were advised to do so... When I finished with my post-processing I store it again in another folder called "forum"... In this folder is already a .jpg and it is resized and compressed...
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I give them names. The download puts them in date labelled folders on my zip drive. I only name the photos I find useful, the rest I discard to save space. After I fill my zip drive I transfer to a CD and make a slide show Video CD. All I have are jpegs. That's what my camera makes.
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I agree - I often rummage about in my junk photo pile looking for small details of a scene that I may have overlooked.
haha <_>
