I don’t mind at all - thank you for your comments. It’s always good to get more information and other perspectives.

There are so many ways of organising files. By date is definitely a great method. My problem is I forget what happened when, so it’s easier for me to label the folders by what the event was, which in a way is my manual way of adding keywords.

I do like dates though for professional shoots, when I can match it back to my diary.

Thanks for the feedback!

Alpha

What is missing in my opinion in your article are the “keywords” for instance.

This is how I take care of the managing part: Download your photo’s from the camera on the computer in a folder that is named after the date of taking the pictures. Most camera software will take care of this, even when the photo’s on your camera are from different dates.

Then add keywords, descriptions and other useful data to the photo’s by using some kind of software prog like Adobe Bridge, ACDsee etc etc. There are lots of them out there. Now this could take a little time, but when you do this correct, you will always be able to find that picture on location, date, keyword etc etc.

Then make a backup to a external drive or CD/DVD. As you mentioned, an external drive is better considering the possibility that the CD will not work in 10 years..

And after that start working on the photo’s if necessary. I keep the post-processed ones as a TIFF in a subfolder with the originals..

I hope you don’t mind me writing this..

Keep up the good work on your site!

Triglav