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Post by Use Less on Oct 19, 2019 15:37:25 GMT
I thought we had a techy category, but I'm not seeing it. I just spent over an hour copying all my photos and some scanned lists and documents to a thumb-drive, so they don't get lost when the techs work on my computer again. What I think needs done shouldn't affect same, but just in case.
I note that I file on the computer like I do/did papers and pictures: stack 'em in a box for a while, then spend an afternoon or evening sorting, tossing what was a temporary save, filing. There has to be a better way, especially for pictures. It takes a long time to find what I want.
What has been successful and not time-consuming for you? Thanks.
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Post by feather on Oct 19, 2019 15:50:13 GMT
If you stop taking pictures there's a lot less to sort.  That never worked for me. When you save them in the first place, try to label them with names of what they are. Name of what they are, and dates, or dates then name what they are. Even just the month and year followed by the name. 10_19carrots. I take 20 or 30 pictures of things, many of them very bad pictures, then if I'm thinking of it, toss out all the bad ones. I sort into gardens, foods, people, trips to places, general junk. DH sorts into metal detecting, people, deer hunting and trapping trips. |
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Post by Maura on Oct 19, 2019 18:53:42 GMT
Agree with doing the work in the front rather than the back. My photograph app allows you to label using category or date. You can also just use the documentary app and put your groups of photos into separate documents, then sort them by file.
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Post by Use Less on Oct 19, 2019 19:05:59 GMT
I get the dates automatically. If I load a bunch of pics, they go into a folder. I can see the first pic. I will look around to see how/if I can label in advance. It is not a big deal to click on that date line and type something else in there, but I haven't developed a good habit.
I also really ought to emulate a friend who is an outstanding professional artist in several media. I watched her load her pics onto a smallish light screen thing, and ruthlessly delete. She said if a pic takes more than a second look to decide, out it goes.
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Post by feather on Oct 19, 2019 19:11:48 GMT
I mostly take pictures of foods and gardens.
I was visiting my son in north dakota and I set him down and showed him my picture files on my thumb drive on my laptop.
We hadn't seen each other for the past 3 years, and my files were ordered by date first.
He went through 3 years of pictures to see what we've been up to.
He mentioned the chocolate tomato that Willow and CN had sent me seeds for. He wanted some of those, so I'm sending them to him. He looked the cheese making pictures, and the buck that DH was hit by in the ford victoria, and the garden landscape fabric pictures, and everything we've been doing.
He went through all that and he had lots of questions about all the new stuff we had done. It made our visit even nicer.
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That never worked for me.
