Problem

Lots of images and files. Lots of time wasted trying to find the one. I like viewing stuff with thumbnails on in Windows Explorer.

Ways of organizing folders:

or

Recently I’ve started doing the latter. Someone would ask for an animation that I created some time ago and I would remember it but not the exact when. But I would remember I did it in Flash. The way the files are organized:

For example, for images that are for a monthly change out, it is “082005 Phone” for the hot new article about a new phone.

Of course I quickly learned the problem with [month[day]year]. Yep. Sorting. Now all my stuff (and I just redid all my stuff at home) to be [yyyymmdd]. It needs the leading zeros. Sort is much easier that way.

I’ve tried out a few ways of organizing all my images at home (photos imported straight from the camera, scans, illustrator files, scanned drawings, flash files, etc), but came back to Picasa again recently.
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Important directories when backing up:

Knowing is half the battle. G.I. Joe! (And now that I have this knowledge…)