Software for organizing photos?
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Microsoft has a free tool called SyncToy that'll automate what you need, FWIW. I've never used it.
http://www.microsoft.com/prophoto/do...nctoybeta.aspx
For Mac, there appear to be a few 3rd party options.
http://8help.osu.edu/1247.html
http://www.microsoft.com/prophoto/do...nctoybeta.aspx
For Mac, there appear to be a few 3rd party options.
http://8help.osu.edu/1247.html
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Originally Posted by Elistan,Jul 1 2009, 09:18 PM
Pretty much, yes. 
(Although I was envisioning each folder being named yyyy-mm-dd and containing all those day's shots, rather that a year, month and day hierarchy.)
And for what it's worth I just do photography for fun so I'm not too worried about categorizing them based on an event name. Just by date is good enough for me.
(Although I was envisioning each folder being named yyyy-mm-dd and containing all those day's shots, rather that a year, month and day hierarchy.)
And for what it's worth I just do photography for fun so I'm not too worried about categorizing them based on an event name. Just by date is good enough for me.
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^^^ exactly. Nikon's software works by putting all pictures you download at one time into a unique folder, irrespective of when the picture was actually taken. Going forward I can do differently, but at the moment I'd have 30GB to go through and organize manually.
So is it safe to say that, except for some custom software, such a program doesn't exist? Google hasn't turned up much. Maybe I should pick up a little VB Script know-how.
So is it safe to say that, except for some custom software, such a program doesn't exist? Google hasn't turned up much. Maybe I should pick up a little VB Script know-how.
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Originally Posted by s2k9,Jul 1 2009, 09:32 PM
all 100gigs??At least setup a software raid 1... Windows? or Mac?
I copy over to 3 drives 1 is the second hd of my machine i process with the other 2 are externals. I copy to all three at once it does take a bit of time to do initially but not that bad really. Maybe an hour for the avg wedding. Remember this is 100 gigs a month not all at one time
Than i process the files on the internal drive and when that is done they are than delivered to client and/or copied to the externals never to be seen again just archived. I do keep faves and samples online at my webspace and a few choice shots on an internal hd. Other than that when i want a shot i refer back to the externals using my filing method above to find them. Worked for me for 8 years now I never desired for any other method as what i do works for what i need.
As far as aperture i also have that but from what i can tell you need the files on your primary drive for aperture to utilize them. That does me no good for past archives. If it is different please let me know as Im primarily a PS user and have not spent a whole lot of time learning the ins and outs of Aperture to me its dumbed down PS and I say that with all due respect to the people that use Aperture. Im just old school PS been using it since almost the beginning.
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Originally Posted by Elistan,Jul 2 2009, 10:40 AM
^^^ exactly. Nikon's software works by putting all pictures you download at one time into a unique folder, irrespective of when the picture was actually taken. Going forward I can do differently, but at the moment I'd have 30GB to go through and organize manually.
So is it safe to say that, except for some custom software, such a program doesn't exist? Google hasn't turned up much. Maybe I should pick up a little VB Script know-how.
So is it safe to say that, except for some custom software, such a program doesn't exist? Google hasn't turned up much. Maybe I should pick up a little VB Script know-how.
I found part of the source for that old program I wrote...
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Yep, PC. That'd rock. 
Here's a quick and dirty requirements listing that I think would be easy to implement, although of course as the author you can do it however you wish.
1) Only work in the current directory. (No need to recurse through an entire directory structure, I can easily put all the pictures I want to reorganize into a single dir.)
2) Grab a file's info, determine it's creation date.
3) Create a new folder with that date if one doesn't already exist.
4) Move the file into said folder.
5) Go back to step 2 with the next file in the directory.
Does that make sense?
Here's a quick and dirty requirements listing that I think would be easy to implement, although of course as the author you can do it however you wish. 1) Only work in the current directory. (No need to recurse through an entire directory structure, I can easily put all the pictures I want to reorganize into a single dir.)
2) Grab a file's info, determine it's creation date.
3) Create a new folder with that date if one doesn't already exist.
4) Move the file into said folder.
5) Go back to step 2 with the next file in the directory.
Does that make sense?
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Originally Posted by Elistan,Jul 2 2009, 03:33 PM
Yep, PC. That'd rock. Here's a quick and dirty requirements listing that I think would be easy to implement, although of course as the author you can do it however you wish.
1) Only work in the current directory. (No need to recurse through an entire directory structure, I can easily put all the pictures I want to reorganize into a single dir.)
2) Grab a file's info, determine it's creation date.
3) Create a new folder with that date if one doesn't already exist.
4) Move the file into said folder.
5) Go back to step 2 with the next file in the directory.
Does that make sense?
Here's a quick and dirty requirements listing that I think would be easy to implement, although of course as the author you can do it however you wish. 1) Only work in the current directory. (No need to recurse through an entire directory structure, I can easily put all the pictures I want to reorganize into a single dir.)
2) Grab a file's info, determine it's creation date.
3) Create a new folder with that date if one doesn't already exist.
4) Move the file into said folder.
5) Go back to step 2 with the next file in the directory.
Does that make sense?