On 2/6/2016 10:32 PM, Don Y wrote:
On 2/6/2016 9:11 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 2/6/2016 9:57 PM, Don Y wrote:
On 2/6/2016 8:55 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 2/6/2016 2:08 PM, Don Y wrote:

I have thousands of technical documents -- but they are relatively
easily
organized. How the hell do you file a photo of an eagle purched on
a dead branch overlooking some rapids? Wildlife? Birds? Water?
Season? etc.

Create folder and you can put the image in one folder with your main
title, like wildlife, and then create other folders for each topic that
has a shortcut dropped in it to the original folder.

Yes, these are the equivalent of symbolic/soft links.

Again, the problem is that you come up with the idea of a
new/finer categorization AFTER you've already got lots of things
categorized. Now, you are faced with the daunting task of
having to go through all the "old" items and see how they should be
RE-categorized in light of the new category.

Ans: it never gets done! As a result, the "new" category is
of little value as it only reflects additions/categorizations
*since* you created it, not *before*!


I've got my images in folders with simple names. Some are titled by the
date, vacation location, or just subject of the image. It's really easy
and simple to drop the images into the folders. If space isn't a
problem drop a copy of an image into 4 different folders with different
titles. When you need an image, open the folder with the title you need
and just scroll through the thumbnails. Searching for an image visually
is much easier than trying to tag them or rename them, I think.

You're probably looking for a specific photograph.

SWMBO will be looking for examples of "running water".
Or, "interesting people".
Or, cloud formations.
Or, ...

I.e., you wouldn't categorize the photos by those criteria -- until
you'd decided that they were criteria that you were interested in!

How would you deal with ADDING a category that contains all
photos where the sky was overcast?

You can put folders inside of folders, so in the sky folder add a folder
that has "overcast" images in it. Drag a copy of the original into the
overcast folder.

Would you look through all
your Disneyland snapshots?

Copy images to a new folder with the right title as I found them.

What about the cookout you had three
years back? Or, the outdoor wedding reception of your friend's
daughter?

I'd leave them all in a topical folder like "People-Gatherings", and
have sub folders like "outdoor wedding", or "weddings".

Its very different accessing photos by *portions* of content.
You don't know what aspects are significant until you want to
go *find* those!


True, so the really only easy way to manage them is to create the
folders and add copies of images to new folders as you find them, or
think about it, or have time to do it.

--
Maggie