These include scans from physically printed pictures to screenshots taken on a computer. I have a top level folder with all my photos in. Also the less folders there are the easier it is to index and perform directory scans say for backup purposes. Using year and month seems like a good balance. Going to date level will create lots of little folders whilst sorting them by just year means there will be a lot of files in one folder. The logic behind creating folders by year and month is so that there are not too many folders. Handy if you want to later prune similar shots. The copy number gets around that but also the underscore allows for searches to be done where there are more than one photo of the same second. For example in a burst shot photos my be taken within the same second so more than one file will have the same name. The underscore also separates the copy number. This is so the files can be searched on dates only, time only or combination of both based on the separator. Also note the dates use hyphens to separate the date values and the time uses dots.
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The files will have the full date time stamp on them so should they be moved by accident it can be moved back to the correct place. The year and month allows a general organisation by the date. The future structure will be organised in \year\month\year-month-day _copy.extention.
This is predominately aimed at photos but I can’t see why it can’t be extended to documents, moves/films, etc. The idea is to use a combination of files and folders to orgranise the pictures in such a way that it’s fairly easy to find and potentially automate photo orgranisation in the future. The idea is to move them to structure which can be managed using just a basic file browser to any sophisticate program like Lightroom or Picasa. Organisation of my files have been pretty lax and has resulted in various file structures. My existing library contains camera shots from film days scanned in to digital shots from things like phones totally 44GB. Dave Bradford has been on it again but this time on file or more specifically photo management.
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