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Letting the computer sort it all out

Letting the computer sort it all out

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Letting the computer sort it all out

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- Part of keeping your folder structure and everything about your data management simple is letting the computer sort it all out. Files naturally contain metadata. Computers can look inside a file and its content and they can do it directly from the operating system. Mac addresses that by using a program called Spotlight where you can search by folder, by hard drive, or by the entire computer. Cortana is Windows' version of Spotlight and there's also a third-party program for Windows called Seer, S-E-E-R, that helps find files based on their metadata. There's also an increasing use of artificial intelligence. Adobe has started putting their artificial intelligence engine, Sensei, into their new version of cloud-based Lightroom. We believe it will also migrate down into the desktop version. AI, or artificial intelligence, can use facial recognition. It can recognize objects. It can even recognize speech and it's only going to get better as time goes on. Remember, digital asset…

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