Hard drive advice?

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Originally Posted by glatt

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Edit: Oh, and I've been backing everything up to DVD, but they are not convenient for finding the shot you want unless you know the date it was taken.

Good for you for backing up. Perhaps it is helpful to you to consider the backups as the place to go to get your data back when it disappears from the regular location. From that perspective, some small inconvenience at sorting through the discs is irrelevant compared to the joy of still having live copies of your pictures.

Below is a screenshot of a sample of how I organize my pictures. I create, on the external hard drive, a series of folders.

Pictures, which contains folders corresponding to years.

Years, which each contain folders corresponding to months.

Months, which each contain folders corresponding to the event in question. Sometimes these leaf (terminal) folder names are repeated. For example, I take pictures each month that belong to the category of Misc. Kids is another recurring theme for me.

This method has several advantages. All my pictures are in one place. Not like your system where they're scattered over several discs. My pictures are "online", available at a click. I


nevermind.

glatt:

We covered this before.