From the course: Hard Drive Management for Creative Pros
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Folder structure approaches
From the course: Hard Drive Management for Creative Pros
Folder structure approaches
- Let's talk folder structure approaches. Everybody has their own idea. And photographers, I swear, are the absolute worst. The reason is because, well, we're human. And we think we remember everything. And to bring up an old Chinese saying, the shortest pencil is better than the longest memory. We think we can remember where we're putting things. And the reality of it is, we're not good at doing that at all. So we come up with folder structures that make sense to us that might not serve us well over time. For instance, we could use the date and the client name. That's pretty solid because you can go back in the dates and find out when the client started. But it's not really, really robust. Neither is the date and location. So if you go back to a location many, many times, you're going to have that scattered across the hard drive sorted by date if you lead with date. And it's not necessarily the best way to do it. The bride name, groom name. Here's one that drives me personally crazy.…
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