Re: Looking for an picture management program - ideas please.

On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 09:54:05PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
Chris G wrote:
Now the big issue is that I want to be able to sort these directories
containing the images in chronological order. This basically requires
either that the program allows me to add some sort of property to an
image directory indicating its date or it allows me to sort the
directories manually.

What I do in this situation is to save each album (photos on one topic
or of one trip) in a directory whose name is based on the starting date
of the photos. For example, if I took pictures of an event starting the
10 of July of this year, I would save the photos in
20080710-photos-topic (ISO format, yyyymmdd). This format always gives
me chronological order if sorted alphabetically.

Hmm, yes, that sort of works but it isn't very elegant. Firstly I
really want to be able to view a year at a time. That's easy enough
with directories called 2005, 2006, 2007 etc. However if I name the
albums within a directory as you suggest (less the year of course) I
end up with directories like:-

0410 - Easter holiday cottage
0415 - Newbourne
0430 - Dilly dog
0610 - Canal holiday

Those numbers are just plain ugly and difficult to understand IMHO,
not to mention that they're a waste of space in the sidebar which is
quite tight for space anyway. Much nicer (and *much* easier to
understand) would be:-

Easter holiday cottage
April Newbourne
April Dilly Dog
June Canal Holiday

Or, possibly even better:-

Cottage holiday Easter
Newbourne - April
Dilly Dog - April
Canal Holiday - June

Either of these require the ability to sort albums/dirctories by date
(or some other user criterion).

Even if I use numbers for the months (01 - Jan, 02 - Feb, etc.) it's
not a perfect solution because different directories for the same
month will still not be sorted correctly (e.g. April above).

If you are taking digital pictures, one of the solutions could be name
the files based on their dates of creation using their exif information.
And then to put those in an appropriately named folder.

How does that help? It's only if the album/folder/directory is named
the same that you get the right sort order.

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Chris Green

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