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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">For more than 10 years, I have been
using the same system to organize the files, so maybe I should
change it, but here is what I use currently.<br>
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I completely abandoned using subjects for storing when I
discovered tags a few years ago. I use tags exclusively, and I
improved my way of using tags when I switched to Digikam, which
was the first to offer me hierarchical tagging. I seldom use
descriptions. I only use ratings to help me clean my images, from
1 star = [should probably be deleted], to 5 stars = [I am happy
enough about it to use it as a screensaver or a desktop
background] (0 stars means of course I haven't rated it yet). 4 is
good, but nothing to be proud about. 3 means I keep them for
historical reasons (maybe to keep track of something or someone,
maybe because the picture is part of a series...).<br>
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For the folder structure, I use something like Antti : one folder
per year or year and period, depending on the number of files, for
example "2005", "2009-08" and "2009-09..12". I could have used
only folders at the first level and created subfolders for
periods, I may change my mind some day. Some of these folders have
subfolders, for the pictures in a series. All sorting, searching,
classifying and so on is done in Digikam, I use the folders when I
want to do backups or use another software on a specific image (I
have yet to find out how to setup Digikam for this), so that the
exact folder structure is not really meaningful, the only
requirement is making files easy to find, which means having not
too many folders and not too many files per folder. I break a
folder in two or more when it contains too many files. "Too many"
depends of course on your computer and your OS, in my situation
the biggest folders have a little more 800 files, I set the
splitting limit at around 500 photos. <br>
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Now that I think a bit, maybe lowering a little the number of
files per folder (and creating the required folders) would improve
things a bit, make the whole structure more balanced. Anyhow, I
don't see any reason to use a completely different system.<br>
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-- <br>
Frederic<br>
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Le 17/10/2022 à 11:52, Antti Ahonen a écrit :<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Personally I always arrange everything in
year/month/day hierarchy. Perhaps not mandatory regarding
Digikam use, but makes life easier with backups and stuff when
the archive gets big.
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<div>All information related to shoot, project, etc is added as
metadata in files and sidecar files.</div>
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<div>That is how I try to manage with my files.</div>
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<div>-Antti</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 6:41
AM Sheridan Price <<a href="mailto:sheridanmp@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">sheridanmp@gmail.com</a>>
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<div dir="auto">Because of the built in date functions I've
found it more useful to store photos under descriptive
folders as in:
<div dir="auto">year then a sub folder having a name that is
some description for that shoot. Hence I might have
2022/Experimental Farm/May. 2022/Experimental Farm/July.</div>
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<div dir="auto">And why you might ask? Well I have found
that mentally if I am looking for a particular photo or
set of photos I can usually remember the year and event
and hence can find it quickly in digikam by going
directly to the folder - no search necessary. If I only
know part of the info then I can do proper searches via
the search tools and when displayed the folder path often
helps jog my memory to help zero in quickly to the correct
folder without having to actually consider each individual
folder.</div>
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<div dir="auto">This does not preclude using useful tags on
each photo. That allows for real detailed and extensive
searches. This just makes some quick searches quicker.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun., Oct. 16, 2022,
9:20 p.m. Tyler Smith, <<a
href="mailto:tyler@plantarum.ca" target="_blank"
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I've been doing a lot of work in Digikam over the past few
weeks, and the many features available for organizing and
tagging my photos. Now I wonder how experienced users take
advantage of all it offers. <br>
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Pre-Digikam, I stored my photos in nested folders by year,
month, date, with the dates sometimes labelled by location
or event. i.e.,<br>
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2022<br>
10<br>
09<br>
10<br>
31-halloween<br>
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Now with Digikam, it's trivially easy to view images by
date without sorting them myself. So now I wonder, how do
you store your images on file, and how do you approach
tagging/rating/annotating? So many options, I'd like to
hear about what workflows you find particularly useful.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Tyler<br>
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