RE: Re: One Folder Workflow

It's much better to use multiple folders, below a common "root" folder. 
Most users have a common root folder like images, and then below that they sort
their images in folders based on year/month/day and even hour, depending on the
image volume.

Windows becomes pretty slow when you have folders with thousands of images, and
for IMatch, checking all images in such a large folder becomes slow too (e.g.
read-only state, image on-line state, file size, last modified date and time
etc.). Smaller folders also serve most backup programs and image browsers well.
And virus scanners may be faster too.


Keep your folders at "CD" or "DVD" size so you can easily burn a folder to
CD/DVD and then relocate the entire folder in IMatch later.

-- Mario

-----Original Message-----
From: skefford_1 [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Mittwoch, 26. Januar 2005 18:50
To: [email protected]
Subject: [imatchuserforum] Re: One Folder Workflow



--- In [email protected], "Tom Husband" <thusband@s...>
wrote:
> 
...
> How many use the workflow the author talked about?  Putting all new 
> images in a "New Image" folder and letting IMatch auto scan it
adding
> them to the database and assigning them to the Unassigned Category? 
...
This sounds a very bad idea for a lot of reasons. One show stopper for IMatch,
is that offlining works with directories, not files. So it would be all or
nothing with one directory.

However, IMHO, directories can be over used by users with IMatch. 
Some people use directories to manage the logical stucture of their images, but
that is what IMatch should be doing. I just use directories to manage the
physical things.

Steve





 
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