ORGANIZE My goal is to help you reach your goals in the easiest and most time efficient way, NOT separating you from your money. This means that the more you do of the sorting process, the less expensive reaching your goals will be. And frankly, when it comes to sorting through your memories, I can only judge a photo by its physical condition, not by the stories that it tells. So, during the sorting and organizing phase, even if money is no object, I highly recommend that you be involved.
Now, if you’re following along, you should have already done your initial sort and purge of your print media using the ABCs Of Print Photo Organization, so let’s now concentrate on your digital photos. Once we’ve done the initial digital sort and purge, we’ll add in the newly digitized files (the former print photos) before we start organizing.
The ABC’s of Digital Photo Organization SORT AND PURGE Step 1. Gather Your Digital Photos Just like with printed photos (which were sorted and pruned before digitizing), organizing your digital photos starts with getting everything in one place. That place should be your primary computer. This is what you need to do: Set up three “containers” - in this case folders on your primary computer: one folder to gather everything together and the other two to do your initial sort to. For now, you’re not going to be setting up your permanent organization system - that will come later. Right now set up the three folders on your desktop, named “Temp” “A” and “B”. Move ALL of the photos on your computer to the “Temp” folder. Don’t make copies, MOVE them. Go folder by folder and don’t worry about organizing them right now, just move them out of all the folders they are in now to the “Temp” folder.
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