Comments on: Picture, pictures everywhere, but not a one to find… http://www.mikelunt.com/blog/2007/08/05/picture-pictures-everywhere-but-not-a-one-to-find%e2%80%a6/ Life is great, and it only gets better. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:04:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: MaryRose http://www.mikelunt.com/blog/2007/08/05/picture-pictures-everywhere-but-not-a-one-to-find%e2%80%a6/#comment-18810 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:27:08 +0000 http://www.mikelunt.com/blog/2007/08/05/picture-pictures-everywhere-but-not-a-one-to-find%e2%80%a6/#comment-18810 I have found, after years of frustration, that I have "themes" in my pictures. So now I use them to organize all my photos! My hierarachy starts with the year (like 2007), then I break it off into five folder options: Everday Life, Out and About, Friends and Family, Special Events, and Trips. Then, when I upload new pics, it's really easy to know where to put a new folder of pictures (which I give a name to, like "Angela's Birthday,") and I never have trouble finding a picture. I have found, after years of frustration, that I have “themes” in my pictures. So now I use them to organize all my photos! My hierarachy starts with the year (like 2007), then I break it off into five folder options: Everday Life, Out and About, Friends and Family, Special Events, and Trips. Then, when I upload new pics, it’s really easy to know where to put a new folder of pictures (which I give a name to, like “Angela’s Birthday,”) and I never have trouble finding a picture.

]]> by: Mike Lunt http://www.mikelunt.com/blog/2007/08/05/picture-pictures-everywhere-but-not-a-one-to-find%e2%80%a6/#comment-14191 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:53:10 +0000 http://www.mikelunt.com/blog/2007/08/05/picture-pictures-everywhere-but-not-a-one-to-find%e2%80%a6/#comment-14191 Sunita, I agree that the two levels are not ideal, and I originally had them all in one folder. This became a problem because there were so many folders. I like the year breakdown because it's easy to figure out what has been backed up as well. --- Mike Sunita,

I agree that the two levels are not ideal, and I originally had them all in one folder. This became a problem because there were so many folders. I like the year breakdown because it’s easy to figure out what has been backed up as well.

— Mike

]]> by: Sunita http://www.mikelunt.com/blog/2007/08/05/picture-pictures-everywhere-but-not-a-one-to-find%e2%80%a6/#comment-14140 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:44:12 +0000 http://www.mikelunt.com/blog/2007/08/05/picture-pictures-everywhere-but-not-a-one-to-find%e2%80%a6/#comment-14140 That is really a nice way of organizing pictures if we have plenty of them. But I guess instead of having 2 level folder heirarchy, we could have only 1 level. Moreover, it will not be confusing if we are browsing pictures from 2 same-named folders lying in different roots. For eg., in the same tree structure (in left window pane of explorer) you are seeing photos from 04_India from root folders 2006 and 2005. This can be a bit confusing...Instead of this, we could have something like this : Root level folder : Pictures. Inside this, create folders like 2006SEP_India, 2007SEP_India. However, there is one disadvantage here: The number of folders will always keep increasing depending on the ferquency of different events(where pictures are taken), whereas in your case, the max number will be controlled : only 1 per year That is really a nice way of organizing pictures if we have plenty of them. But I guess instead of having 2 level folder heirarchy, we could have only 1 level. Moreover, it will not be confusing if we are browsing pictures from 2 same-named folders lying in different roots. For eg., in the same tree structure (in left window pane of explorer) you are seeing photos from 04_India from root folders 2006 and 2005. This can be a bit confusing…Instead of this, we could have something like this : Root level folder : Pictures. Inside this, create folders like 2006SEP_India, 2007SEP_India.
However, there is one disadvantage here: The number of folders will always keep increasing depending on the ferquency of different events(where pictures are taken), whereas in your case, the max number will be controlled : only 1 per year

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