filing system

Folks

I have some 20 gigs of photographs backed up onto a separate hard drive.
Most of these are in directories I have named to group them together in like
subjects etc. When backing up I simply take the lot over using file
management program on XP and copy to second hard disk. Have about 25
directories.

This has a number of advantages and disadvantages. I am now considering
having a number of large directories with no more than 4 gig per directory
so I can simply dump each directory to a DVD. I would manage the files for
viewing cataloguing etc using ACDSee ver. 6. Can any one see major (or
minor for that matter) disadvantages/problems for taking this approach.

regards


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Don From Down Under

"Don" wrote in message
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Folks

I have some 20 gigs of photographs backed up onto a separate hard drive.
Most of these are in directories I have named to group them together in
like
subjects etc. When backing up I simply take the lot over using file
management program on XP and copy to second hard disk. Have about 25
directories.

This has a number of advantages and disadvantages. I am now considering
having a number of large directories with no more than 4 gig per directory
so I can simply dump each directory to a DVD. I would manage the files
for
viewing cataloguing etc using ACDSee ver. 6. Can any one see major (or
minor for that matter) disadvantages/problems for taking this approach.

regards

I am considering a similar move, even though I have triple hard drive
redundancy in two locations...

My directories are categorized fairly similarly.
I plan to simply make sub-folders with a, b, c, or 1, 2, 3, etc. names if
and when I have too large a directory.
I don't see a problem with your plan.
I note that ACDSee 7 has significant improvements to their back-up feature,
but I'm not yet up to speed to sufficiently delineate new changes for you
here.

I have over 120 gigs of photos to deal with (not counting the 2 full
back-ups of this).

"Don" wrote in message
...
Folks

I have some 20 gigs of photographs backed up onto a separate hard drive.
Most of these are in directories I have named to group them together in
like
subjects etc. When backing up I simply take the lot over using file
management program on XP and copy to second hard disk. Have about 25
directories.

This has a number of advantages and disadvantages. I am now considering
having a number of large directories with no more than 4 gig per directory
so I can simply dump each directory to a DVD. I would manage the files
for
viewing cataloguing etc using ACDSee ver. 6. Can any one see major (or
minor for that matter) disadvantages/problems for taking this approach.

regards

I am considering a similar move, even though I have triple hard drive
redundancy in two locations...

My directories are categorized fairly similarly.
I plan to simply make sub-folders with a, b, c, or 1, 2, 3, etc. names if
and when I have too large a directory.
I don't see a problem with your plan.
I note that ACDSee 7 has significant improvements to their back-up feature,
but I'm not yet up to speed to sufficiently delineate new changes for you
here.

I have over 120 gigs of photos to deal with (not counting the 2 full
back-ups of this).