AV News 184 - May 2011
Folders you create yourself are free of such restrictions. A large pile of date
folders isn't very useful. How often do you think 'I'll make a sequence about the
pictures I took on 26th June 2009'? You are far more likely to want to make a
sequence about Coventry Cathedral. In which case it helps if you have arranged
your pictures so there is a 'Coventry' folder, which is probably one of several in a
'Towns & Cities' main folder. And so on. You get the idea.
If you are just starting, it's easy. Most computers nowadays have two hard
drives, 'C' which is where the programs are stored and where Bill Gates has put
various 'useful' (in his view) folders and the 'D' drive which is usually empty. We
use the D drive purely for pictures and AV which tend to take up a lot of room.
On D create a 'Howard's Pictures' folder (my computer/D/file/new/folder.....) In
this folder create a number of sub-folders to reflect your photographic interests.
These might be 'Family', 'Railways', 'Towns and Cities' etc. In each of these su