A Story With Pictures/ Picasa And Storing Photos/ The Organization Man
A few weeks ago in my ongoing quest to become more organized I went into Picasa and put my photos in order. I set up folders according to events. Many of the photos were already in the right folder. But I must have spend a day making sure wandering photos were returned to their proper place.
Yahoo. I’m a photo rustlin cowboy!
Anyway yesterday or the day before it all runs together in my mind I reformatted my hard drive. And since I had saved all the photos on dvds using the Picasa backup program there didn’t seem to be a problem.
But to my horror when I reloaded the photos off the dvds they all came back in one huge pile without any folders. So now I have about twenty thousand photos just sitting there in a big pile.
Maybe I didn’t do it right. Who knows?
After I reformatted the hard drive I noticed that my speakers were not working. Well we have to have music, right? So I went into Device Manager and there were a bunch of yellow arrows in one area including some that had to do with audio.
If I had deleted those files and started up the computer again Windows would have found the correct driver and installed it. Eventually I did this so I know it works.
But that sixty second exercise only happened after I spent a day going in other directions.
It’s seven am and after finishing this cup of coffee I need to take Zach’s car to the dealership for routine maintenance.
Later I plan to go out to the workshop to continue work on some shelves.
Do I sense a pattern here? I have this dream that someday I will sit down in this chair and everything will be done for a few days or weeks. Everything will be organized. And then we can zip forward into the future like a star ship that has just been refueled.
Bu that day is never going to come is it? It’s all just a pleasant fantasy. There are six billion people on this planet struggling to survive on limited resources. It’s all just a big mess and I’m part of it.
Why do I even try to climb on top of it and look around?
It’s time for a new relaxation exercise. Put on some music and begin deep breathing. Then go to Picasa and look at that big pile of photos. Look at them and smile.
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We recently returned from a vacation in Europe. Four of us brought cameras. After dumping all of our photos on my computer, I now have approximately 5,000 photos to sort through and organize. Aaagh!
Looks like I’ll be re-living this vacation for a long, long time.
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Organization …Now there is a word I have no concept of David !!
I get an e-mail the other day and someone saw one of my photos on Flickr, they liked it and wanted to use it in a advertisement, I keep the file size small on Flickr so it can’t be used so easily by people on the net.
So I search thru my files and I search and search, and so on and so forth and you guessed it …it’s not there !!
I contact the Designer and tell them I don’t have the larger file, so there goes that check. The sad thing is I didn’t start photography as a business because I am not a business person, and on top of that I am very, very unorganized !!
So… as we speak I am trying to do better with this part of my photography, today will be looking thru and throwing out old file day. And who knows maybe the next time someone calls with a check I can actually give them what they want !!
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