Organizing Digital Files on Hard Drive

[crafty grandmommie]

I know we kind of discussed this before, but does anyone have any great ideas as to the best way to set your digital files up on your harddrive? I'm about to move mine over to an external hard drive as I have time, and would like to better organize them as I go.

[illinimom]

Hi Lynn,
Here are a list of links to discussions on this topic. Some are from this board and others from the GottaPixel board. To be honest with you, I still haven't found a good way, so I jsut keep things in folders and subfolders...

Website/Category/Subcategory

My categories are usually challenges or repeating things, but some people use designer for category.

Gottapixel/Challenge/Scraplift
DigitalFreebies/FridayFreebies

Sorry I'm not much help, but I'll be watching closely to see if someone else is!

http://forum.startascrapbook.com/eve...4/m/5951018084

http://forum.startascrapbook.com/eve...4/m/8641071684

http://forum.startascrapbook.com/eve...4/m/2431025084

http://www.gottapixel.net/forum/showthread.php?t=5078

http://www.gottapixel.net/forum/showthread.php?t=14559

http://www.gottapixel.net/forum/showthread.php?t=15634

[oniska]

Lynn I found this website and it talks about a program called acdc you have to pay fori it but it has a few tips that might help. If i keep going i might try this
http://www.digiscrapinfo.com/dsiwiki..._Photo_Manager

[crafty grandmommie]

I like the looks of that acdc, but isn't that just a more powerful version of something like picasa where you can label and sort as you like and then view the pics? I still would like to get mine a little more organized than in a digital freebie file with thousands of folders, lol

I have mine right now filed, some by category, and a lot by site or designer, but then when I want to look for something, I have to go through alllllll those designers to find what I'm looking for and that just doesn't seem to be working for me.

[crafty grandmommie]

Illinimom, thanks for all the sites. I'll check them out when I have time.