Questions tagged [file-management]
Organization and manipulation of files
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Consolidate photos and eliminate duplicates? [duplicate]
I have a client who is having a lot of trouble managing his photos. He has multiple copies in multiple Aperture and iPhoto libraries, imports from old PCs, etc. What I'm looking for is a piece of ...
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Recommendation: Tool for import files/folder - that doesn't duplicate duplicates
I need help finding a way of archiving my photographs. My requirements are very few:
I want to copy/move a set or files or a folder into my photos-folder where i have subfolders named "yyyu-mm-dd" (=...
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Should I tag, sort in folders, or rename my images for organizing them? [closed]
I have tons of images across my physical drives and unfortunately because I was inexperienced, I have saved them using a very poor method of file management (which is making lots and lots of ...
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How can I organise collections by date in Lightroom?
I often go walking with my camera and I like to collect the photos from each walk into a collection. I name the collection after the place I've walked, and it ultimately contains any photos I took, ...
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How to create Lightroom 4 import customization using filename and path?
I want my photos to be stored like this
YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD_Name_of_shooting/YYYY-MM-DD_Name_of_shooting_001.nef
(The date is the date of shooting)
Is it possible ...
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Batch move photos to other folder in Lightroom 3
Currently I have my photos organised in Events in Lightroom 3. It also uses a folder structure that looks like this:
Year/dd-mm/Eventname-##.jpg
I figured that it would be easier for me to find a ...
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Standard format for "ordered list of pictures"
Sorry, if I don't get the terminology correct. Newbie question.
I'm finally getting around organizing the family pictures (a few 10s of thousands) and I'm trying to do this in the most compatible and ...
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Using Photoshop Organizer with Amazon Prime Photos
I’ve read Amazon’s Prime Photo service advertised as an unlimited photo storage service. They allow you to save RAW files, which addresses the shortfall of many other online storage services.
Has ...
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Looking for an application that will provide image matches on local machine [duplicate]
I've found a bunch of programs that will spit out a list of duplicate images. In other words, you click "Go" and it looks at everything on a drive, or in a folder, and tells you if there are any ...
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What system should I use for photo management and sharing over the Internet? [closed]
This question has been asked before, but the answers are 3+ years old and nearly all of the projects referenced are gone!
Basically, I want something that does everything Picasa (the Windows client ...
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How to format a 4TB hard disk for photography files?
I just bought a new 4 TB hard disk for my photographies and I would like to prepare it to copy all my photos there. This hard disk will ONLY consist of photo file (CanonRAW *.cr2; >20MB each file) (...
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Nikon file formats
I've been working with NX2 for a long time, and now I downloaded NX Studio. To my supprice the programme only accepts NCP, NP2 and NP3 file input. There is no way I can get the programme accepting my ...
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How to prevent deleted photos from appearing again when importing from camera?
I use Adobe Lightroom. I import photos daily from the camera, carefully go through the large number of photos and delete (from the PC) the ones I don't like. ...
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How do you store raw and jpg files separately
I shoot in raw and jpg but when I'm done I just want to give the customer all the jpg files and keep the raw files so I can do some touch up on the ones they want.
I want to store it in different ...
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Should I bother organising into file system folders in Lightroom or just use metadata?
A while back I was following this method for Lightroom http://ericscouten.com/blog/2012/03/05/lightroom-technique-how-i-organize-my-catalog-and-why-2012-edition
It does advocate creating folders on ...
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Photo and data sorting software
I would like to be able to have thumbnail images of my photographs with information next to them (Location, Photo ID #, Date Photo Taken, etc.) that I can sort according to the column headers (like in ...
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How to rapidly select image subsets from a large collection?
I have several thousand images in a folder on my windows machine. I want to browse through them all and select for printing a subset of these - I reckon around 20% or about 400.
Selecting means ...
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How can I reduce the storage space for unprocessed timelapses?
I have many JPEGs captured as part of different timelapses. I have all of them stored as they came from the camera, but it is starting to take up a lot of space.
I want to keep the photos at their ...
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How do you organize your photos before you shoot them?
When I go out for a shoot, I often shoot photos that I'd like saved in multiple folders on the SD card, so that I can figure out later what's what.
For example, if I go out to shoot trains, in the ...
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How do I move a photo in Lightroom after it's been added but not copied?
Normally when adding photos to Lightroom, I "Copy as DNG" from my camera's SD card to my external hard drive. Recently someone gave me a DVD containing over a thousand images in JPG format, which I ...
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Family Photos System Strategies
I'm sure folks here have a good approach to photo storage/processing and backup. I'm a dad with 4 kids and lots of family photos. I had my first digital camera in 1996 and have pictures stretching ...
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How to store photos for long term locally?
TL;DR: I am amateur photographer and looking for advice on storing my photographs locally (not on cloud/online) for long-term.
Background
I started clicking photos in .JPG initially but realized it's ...
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Is there a way to use Lightroom mobile to Sync only starred/picked photos in collections?
I was wondering if there's a way/plug-in to sync only photos in collections based on metadata such as flagging and/or ratings? For instance, if I have a collection of 500 images, but only 50 are rated ...
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How to view a thumbnail for each lightroom folder in a catalog?
I'm trying to convert from Aperture to Lightroom. The first thing that does not make sense to me is how do you get an overview of your entire library (called catalog in lightroom)? In aperture, this ...
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How to get back from a print to an image file
I manage a growing collection of jpeg photos (27k so far) for my partner. Aside from the time it takes to accurately tag them all (I only have about 7k of them tagged :( ), everything is fine.
The ...
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How do you manage your less-than-perfect photos?
If I post pictures on G+ or Picasa for my parents, they complain that they want only to see the best shots - not all of them.
I don't want to have 2 folder trees for primary and secondary photos. Is ...
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Canon 6D resetting folders on card format - a way to stop this?
I have a Canon 6D. The "File Numbering" setting is set to "Continuous", and for the most part, it behaves that way. However, unlike my experience with previous Canon DSLRs (e.g. my Canon 30D), there'...
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Software application(s) for organizing a large number of old pictures [duplicate]
I have about ~40,000 files (~200 GB) of photos on the hard drive (JPG with metadata, from different cameras). I used to use Picasa before, but when I had to switch to a new computer a few years ago, ...
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How do I set the preserved filename with exiftool only on the first time?
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While organizing my pictures I typically use many operations of exiftool to adjust date/time, rename the file, bulk add GPS locations, add creator names etc. In this process, each JPG image is ...
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Copying all photos with EXIF Rating >= 4 using ExifTool
I have used EXIF's Rating interval for ranking photos in my collection.
My photo collection is organized in directories in the form ...
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is there photo management software that includes tagging and fuzzy dates?
I've been scanning family photographs and am looking for a way to organize them. I'd like to set them up in photo organization software where i can set tags and add dates.
Preferably, I'd like the ...
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Add EXIF rating to NEF file
I shoot with a Nikon in RAW, which creates Nikon's NEF files. I wanted to rate these (from 1-5). Currently I use ApolloOne on macOS (due to its performance and ability to view both JPEG and RAW files ...
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How are image files and sidecar files associated?
I'm trying to understand how sidecar files are logically associated with their respective photo files.
As far as I can tell, both Apple and Adobe save nondestructive editing information in XMP files, ...
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Manufacturer DCIM folder format
I'm pretty sure I used to have a camera that would create a different folder each day (I think it used the day-of-the-year as the three digit code), which I think is a great idea, but can't remember ...
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Why is my SDHC card disappearing from the file system after few minutes?
My Nikon sdhc memory card is showing in my computer, but after a few minutes it disappears from the file system. The three things I tried are:
formatted the card
changed my card reader
changed the ...
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Will lightroom sync offline library changes when external drive reconnects?
I want to organize all my photos, so I copied all my folder from all my drives to a single 4TB external drive, and now I want to organize everything and remove duplicates.
What’s the best way to do ...
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How can I select photos that are deleted in the working set from a backup?
I have a set of photos that I have backed up in two different locations. So I have three sets in total.
In my working set, I deleted the photos that I deemed not good enough to keep. I actually ...
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How do I get the photo filenames from my LX5 to continue from a given number?
I have a lovely new Panasonic LX5, replacing my LX3. I am using the same SD card as in the LX3, which already has the folders 100, 101, 102, ... 116 (yes, that was a thousand photos per folder...).
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How do I automatically relocate 10k Lightroom photos that only exist in "ghost folders?"
I have a large Lightroom catalog containing ~20k culled and edited photos. Each set of related photos (usually around 50-200 photos) exists in a parent folder, which I'll call the "event folder.&...
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How can I rename a large set of photos using their modified date?
My problem is a little bit different from the other that I've seen here. The thing is that I have for example: DSCF0001, DSCF0002 and so on, as filenames with modified dates 2020/01/01 , 2020/01/02 (...
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pyRenamer does not rename some Huawei P20 images
I'm using pyRenamer for many years without problems. Now I have some images from Huawei P20 camera and pyRenamer does not rename approx. 10% of the images. Instead of Date and Time, I get underline ...
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How to handle RAW file storage across devices in Lightroom?
The Issue
I'm trying to figure out if there is an established way of managing RAW files across devices when using Lightroom. I am aware of Lightroom's cloud sync, but unless I'm misunderstanding how ...
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Finding photos taken in class
I'm trying to organize my photographs by day of week and time of day taken.
For example, if I have a math class from 10:00AM-12:00PM every Monday and Wednesday, I want to move photos taken in that ...
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Why do I have many duplicate files after importing a backup into Apple Aperture, and how can I fix it?
My old MacBook Pro died and I had to buy a new one, a 2016 model. Now I know that Apple has end-of-lifed Aperture, but I'm still using Aperture 3. But when I imported the Aperture Library from the ...
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How did Lightroom automatically find location of files after moving to a different partition?
I moved my photos and Lightroom catalog files to a different partition on my hard drive and then opened Lightroom expecting to have point Lightroom to the new location of the image files and catalog.
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Cross-Platform Photo Management Workflow - from Smart-Phone/PC to Storage to Print
I am looking for a simple photography workflow. I want as much automation as possible to handle synchronization, organization, editing, and printing.
I am willing to put in more work upfront so ...
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Moving from Light Room to Capture One/Media Pro or alternative
I've used Lightroom (LR) for the past year and I love that tool. However, I've recently looked into alternatives and the output of Capture One (CO) looks better than LR, at least for me.
I wanted to ...
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Aperture like event view in Lightroom 5
I just purchased Lightroom 5, and am making the switch from Aperture, which I've been using for the last two years, and has all of my 40,000+ images from that time frame.
While I didn't realize that ...
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sorting photos from every minute to every hour
I have a data base of time lapse photos that have been taken for a period of a week, but i made a newbies mistake and set the setting up for a photo every second, filled up my memory drive. Anyways ...
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Do you keep all of your photos? [duplicate]
Even though I do a quick edit in camera to remove unwanted shots as I shoot, I still end up with a huge number of shots. I keep and back up in the cloud the ones I am working on for a project and ...
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