organising all my photo's - help!

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scottvsaunders

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Hi,

Over the years we have taken thousands of photos of the kids as and they are all currently sat in a directory on my hard drive without any form of organisation. what's the best way organise and store them?

what sort of good programs can I use?
 
Ya don't need a program to do it. Myself, i have a directory called pictures. Its called organization and thats me. I have maybe a 150 sub directory's and date in the name like Costa rica March 2012, or christmas called Christmas 2009. Ya drop them in there and back them up. Your the only one that will know. Its organization and thats you. And my pictures go back to early 60's. Grand children, vacations, fishing trips etc. Be creative.
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One major tip to tell you though. You better back up all your pics and all your other data to a DVD and put it in safe keeping for when your hard drive goes out on you.
 
My method is to sort them in one picture folder, then sort down to year, month, then event + date.
 
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Not sure what your saying. But i would like to get into the sync function. Just not good at it. Eventually i will burn to dual layer or 2 of needed. yes, i have windows 7 pro. its there. and don't know the diff between sync and brief case.
 
tremmor said:
Not sure what your saying. But i would like to get into the sync function. Just not good at it. Eventually i will burn to dual layer or 2 of needed. yes, i have windows 7 pro. its there. and don't know the diff between sync and brief case.
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Fixed a word or two.
 
As others have said don't need a program but if you did want one I use lightroom.

When i take photos, I import through lightroom, it copies to a golder I have setup on harddrive. I then go through each photo and give it tags etc (I also give stars but thats so I know what to edit) then I can open program search like christmas and get every photo for Christmas and if i want by year i add that to search. Takes time to setup but once done I find really easy.
 
tremmor said:
Ya don't need a program to do it. Myself, i have a directory called pictures. Its called organization and thats me. I have maybe a 150 sub directory's and date in the name like Costa rica March 2012, or christmas called Christmas 2009. Ya drop them in there and back them up. Your the only one that will know. Its organization and thats you. And my pictures go back to early 60's. Grand children, vacations, fishing trips etc. Be creative.
Just another adventure.
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That's exactly what I do.

You can always sort them by date then create the folders to organize the pictures.
 
thank guys - i know from re-reading my post it did perhaps make me look a little thick :-)

I have previously being putting them in order of who is in the photo which was great until I started having more than one different person in the image and there there were just endless folders etc..

Just downloaded Visipics to find all the duplications thanks to constantly backing up images etc. Organising these photos is something that I have been putting off for years and need to finally get some form of system in place..
 
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