Supply/Picture Organization

[GreenEyedLadyDesigns]

How to you organize your scrapping supplies and your photos?

[athena]

I use Adobe Bridge to organize photos using the tags. I also organize by person and/or event in my back up files

My digi scrap files are organized by designer and I also copy elements to category files such as flowers, frames, ribbon, etc. and categorize papers by color.

[Andrea]

I have ACDSee 10.... I get started on organizing and then something... like "life" gets in the way and mega time goes by..... got some time coming up... just maybe I can finally get this up and running!!!!!!

From what I can tell... this program is awesome for either kits or photos!!!

[GreenEyedLadyDesigns]

I'm an ACDSee12 gal - been using ACDSee for a couple of year and I love it! You can send fonts, styles and brushes to Photoshop from within the program and I find it very easy to categorize my stash.

[MsKaty]

I started using ACDSee too when we talked about it in the "old Den". I had all my Den scrapping labeled but never got around to all the other stash.
I do have it organized by site, then designer, some old stuff I have in folders like holidays, seasons, etc. My set up is not the best tho, I find I am always searching!!

[Traci]

I use my own system in Explorer and have done since I began using Photoshop, back about version 5.5. My photos are organized and cross-referenced by date, person, and subject. My purchased kits are organized by designer and cross referenced by either store or web site. I do NOT divide up the kits into separate components. If I download a font or template, I also have files for just those things.....I also have files for general classifications such as holidays, children, pets, etc.

I tried ACDSee, but I was already so entrenched, that I gave up. :rolleyes:

[landorasue]

I'm an ACDSee12 gal - been using ACDSee for a couple of year and I love it! You can send fonts, styles and brushes to Photoshop from within the program and I find it very easy to categorize my stash.

I also use ACDSee 12 and have been use ACDsee for a number of years. I LOVE it! It's so easy to tag and catetorize everything.

How do you get you easily get your brushes into PSE? I can get the fonts to work, but not the brushes, styles, etc. Do you have to Rebuild Database for those, too, like you do the fonts? Could you explain?

[Wendy]

I use Bridge to organise mine ... then I keep them in designer order :)

Wendy

[Magnolia57]

My photos are organized in a pictures folder by year, month, event.
My scrapping supplies are a mess! I lost a good many of them when my computer crashed this past April.

[Cathy]

I have tried bridge. Am uncertain how to set the cache settings under preferences.

[Marcie]

Well I am currently using several systems. I apparently can't get enough of being organized!:rofl2:

OKay I started out by using the ORganizer that came with pse 5. That works really well, but I started havign issues again. I finally broke down and bought acdsee 12. I have all my photos there and they are tagged. I tag those by year, then 3 months at a time, and finally special dates if there is one. So 2010 - July thru September - Surf CIty NY July 3 to 10. If it was just a regular picture taken during that time it would just go in that folder. I also keep windows explorer with the same breakdown. I also have tags for photos taken of items for use in making my kits, plants/rocks/trees/etc. I sort my photos by year because I do books for my kids each year and this way the photos can be easily found for the year. I do not tag by anyones names and have yet to find a use for that.

I'm currently tagging my digikits in Acdsee, but they are saved in windows explorer under Designers - designer name - kit name - items in the kit. I do not keep them by the store they are in unless I have two people with the same name. That way I can keep them straight.

I also have all my templates tagged in the Organizer but not in acdsee yet. I save those under templates - designers name - template name (in windows too). Then I have tags for Site and number of photos. That way if I'm looking for a template with 5 photos, I can find it real easy.

So one day I hope to have it all in acdsee and just go back and forth with that. I also have the font thing for fonts which is on the fritz too, and the preset viewer for my shapes, brushes, patterns, color swatches, and styles. I really like using this, but will probably also do it in acdsee just to have it there too.

[cats4jan]

Organization? hmmmmmmmmmmmm :rofl2:

My "stuff" is on three external hard drives and DVD's - in a jumble - vaguely titled by date and occasion. Duplicates, triplicates - quadruplicates (is that a word?)

So I thought I'd start fresh

Got a new comptuter with 1 TB HD and started moving things over - organizing - got soooo tired of it.

I like the good old days - before digi-scrapping. I'd get a new computer and start from scratch and not transfer anything over. I'd just move forward.

Can't do that anymore - yikes.

You cannot believe how this is so unlike me - I'm the organization queen in my real life. I just want papers I can file - it's so much easier when I can sort while sitting on the floor surrounded by my files.

[Cathy]

Janice, I feel the same way. I miss putting on a floppy and able to keep things grouped. I used to just love to play with my paper files, but that has overwelmed me for not keeping up, for I spend all my time on the computer. I miss the days of getting my checks back from the bank, pretty note paper for my dayplanner.

[Ellie]

I use ACDsee for my kits, fonts, styles, brushes, templates, etc. I started using it about 2 years ago and love it. But, when I started using it I already had DVD's worth of stuff that I haven't organized yet. One day I'll get to it.

I use Bridge for my photos. When I save them to DVD, I have them by date and sequence# and then I put them in folders by event/activity. My DVDs are all in sequential order with a start/end date of it's contents.

It's worked for me so far. :)

[GreenEyedLadyDesigns]

How do you get you easily get your brushes into PSE? I can get the fonts to work, but not the brushes, styles, etc. Do you have to Rebuild Database for those, too, like you do the fonts? Could you explain?

Somehow I missed this post - sorry about that ...

You shouldn't have to rebuild the database to load fonts in PSE, just close PSE, install the fonts, then reopen PSE.

You can load brushes from within ACDSee - click on the ABR file you want to load and then from the menu, choose Tools, External Editors and then choose PSE8 (assuming of course, you've set ACDSee up to see PSE8 at your editor. If not, choose Tools, External Editors, Configure then navigate to the PSE8 executable/application file, which is in Program Files, Adobe, Adobe PSE8 - make sure you chose the Editor file, not the Organizer file).

You can also drag an ABR file from ACDSee onto the tool bar in PSE to load it.

Unfortunately, neither of these techniques work for Styles. Dragging a style from ACDSee onto the tool bar seems to work, but I haven't been able to find styles added in this manner when I go to look for them in the styles palette.

[Snickerdoodle Designs]

I'm an ACDSee girl too.. have been for ages, it seems. I organize photos in folders by year and month, then date, but view them in ACDSee and tag them there.

I have a "Tools" folder, and then subfolders of "ribbons," "buttons," and such and those are all CU products.

Then for digikits that I have purchased, they are just filed by designer name.

All tagged in ACDSee (well, a lot are tagged.. it IS a big job that gets VERY boring!!).

[Cathy]

Do you think I would be sorry if I rename elements within a kit. Like the ones that only say ellement1 2 3, or kit_flower. Spent an hour looking for baby breath in opening designers folders doing a = search to see contents of all folders, Never found any baby breath flowers, but boy have alot of things would be nice to find again.

[Traci]

Do you think I would be sorry if I rename elements within a kit. Like the ones that only say ellement1 2 3, or kit_flower. Spent an hour looking for baby breath in opening designers folders doing a = search to see contents of all folders, Never found any baby breath flowers, but boy have alot of things would be nice to find again.

Cath...as long as you know who authored the kit and what the TOU is, I don't think there is any reason you can't rename to your heart's content. It is all about finding things so you can use them!

[Marcie]

Do you think I would be sorry if I rename elements within a kit. Like the ones that only say ellement1 2 3, or kit_flower. Spent an hour looking for baby breath in opening designers folders doing a = search to see contents of all folders, Never found any baby breath flowers, but boy have alot of things would be nice to find again.

I don't think it will be a problem to rename them at all. I'm guessing you are using windows only to find your things. If you are using a database of somesort (bridge, acdsee, organizer...) you could just tag them with a specific name instead. That will save you some problems. Although for me, I just have a tag called Flower and I tag all my flowers under that. So I'd still have to look through those that have been tagged, but it is way smaller than looking through all the kits. You could have a tag called Flower, but underneath it a subgroup of flower names or colors. That would make your searches smaller especially if you knew it was a blue flower or a certain name. Hope that helps.

[NancyP]

Organize?? Yeah, well------
Boy, I have to look into this ACDSee you are all talking about. Right now everything is either on disks, EHD or in my computer. Kits are in files first by site, then by designer. Photos are by family then each person within that family has a file. They are also by theme, holiday etc.
I just dumped ALL my photos from disks back into the computer because when I put them on disks about a year ago there was no organization---I just downloaded photos. Now I want to organize them and put them back on disks.
What is the name of some of these places that will keep files for you????

[Cathy]

Maybe I should give bridge another try, just seemed to run slow on my puter. But it would be good for the odd balls that pop up in a kit, like a alunium bucket or something.

[Marcie]

Maybe I should give bridge another try, just seemed to run slow on my puter. But it would be good for the odd balls that pop up in a kit, like a alunium bucket or something.

Mine runs slow too, but those odd balls are worth the extra time. :)

[ShortCake]

I guess I'm simple.....I just use two EHD's. I organize my stuff by store, then by designer and well, that's it.

[Catherine]

I'm a Bridge user. But my files need a bit of re-organising, they're beginning to get a bit chaotic.

[Traci]

I guess I'm simple.....I just use two EHD's. I organize my stuff by store, then by designer and well, that's it.

I wish it was that easy for me, Melissa! :D I have stuff going back several years....and it is on disks by the stack, three EHD's and two internal HDD's. NOT to mention what I have backed up on various laptops that seem to float around here.....:eek:

[Muriel]

I tried to be organized but......It seems like everytime I change a machine I mis place stuff. It is there but sometimes three or four files deep. I want to get the mess cleared up and located in a plce that make sense. Now I have back ups of back ups.

[Cathy]

I'm a Bridge user. But my files need a bit of re-organising, they're beginning to get a bit chaotic.

do I need to change setting of anything in bridge, do I write the index with file when avaible or cache all thumbnails. If I start I want to do it right

[Tailz61]

hmmm looks like a lot of you use bridge...i have it but never even looked at it, maybe I should. I actually use picassa for all my scrap stuff and started to tag it all but well...you know the story lol...then I had to reformat and lost what I had tagged and never went back to it...now I hardly have time to actually scrap that I've forgotten what stuff I have these days. I've tried acdsee but well finding time to learn stuff is something I don't have...but up for a reformat hopefully this weekend to Win7 so maybe once done I can try out bridge and see what a mess I can make of it lol

[coppercurls]

Organized... oh yeah... not much, but my searcher works good. Folders called by site name( 2 only and one called Others), then designer name. My photos are organized in Lightroom on an external HD.

[JodyT]

All my photos are saved by shooting date and town/place .... or shooting date and occasion depending on what the topic is... I find this the easiest for me as I take so many photos with our wandering ways. These are on my HD and also backed up to an external HD.

My kits are saved by Designer name then kit name.. I used to do it by store but got sick of moving stuff as designers moved around and left the store I had them under. My kits are backed up to two external HD's and taken off my computer at the end of each month. I work from the external, choosing the kit and pieces I want then making the layout.

My layouts are saved in directories by topic (JPG's) for slide shows. The .psd files are saved in directories, site name and challenge name if challenges, and other descriptors if not.

All layouts are on a spreadsheet with name, month created, site name, challenge name, font name, kit name, alpha name etc etc. At the end of each month the .psd files are backed up to two external HD's with a .jpg of that layout.. I only keep a .jpg copy on the computer. I try to always have everything in two places. I back up at the end of every month religously .. do not allow myself to work on new challenges until the last month has been backed up... this way I DO IT.

Each kit preview is in a directory on my HD .. So I can flich through to decide what takes my fancy to use.

I think that covers most of it.

OCD? Humm I guess so.. been accused of it thats for sure. Cant understand why. :rofl2:

I have tried to use Bridge, but cant make it work. Tells me I have to have this and that to run it.. I have 4gb ram but Bridge does not think I have enough.... Maybe the next version .. but I dont think I could go back and categorise everything I have, would take the rest of my life. :D I think at this stage its just too late to change what I do for something else, eventhough it is probably a much better way of doing it.

Sorry if I have bored you all to death here, I do tend to ramble a bit.

[Cathy]

Oh Ifound this so informational. Thank you

[Karen]

Wow, you are organised Jody. I am, more or less organised but not completely.

Karey

[Ellen]

Jody you've got it all well sorted . I suppose once it is in order it's easier to
keep on adding to it.

I'm sort of sorted but can never find the layout I want as I forget what I called it. so what I need to do is keep the thumbnails as well.
having to open psd 's all the time is so frustrating and time consuming.:(

[Cathy]

ok what about trains, in individual folder per file it came, or or folder like kit, ellement in folder paper in iner folder?

[msbrad]

I guess I'm simple.....I just use two EHD's. I organize my stuff by store, then by designer and well, that's it.
Bless your heart, I hope it continues to work for you in this manner. I USED to do the same. Then, too many designers started switching sites and/or changing their design name.
<deep breath michi>
Then I went to:
digi stuff> designer name > then folder per kit, with all its 'dodads' living together happily ever after. (I have over: 350 different designer names :o)

Plus, I'm an ACDSee gal and I really loved my catalog org--and I was was a happy scrapper...
now
http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo303/msbrad_photos/thcrying.gif

Windows7 came into my life [sounds like a song] and although.. I had it all backed up on the EHD (ACDSee back-up + all digi and photos]-ok not totally org, but what was looked really impressive!:D
the IT gentleman, who was changing the OS for us, did me a 'favor' :rolleyes:. I knew he needed to reformat the hard drive from xp---> to 7, however...he brought me a brand new clean hard drive and re-named my old 'c' drive to 'e'...where all my 300+G of digi lived...without ACDSee being open for the 'move' and now I have 2 internal HD.

I've reloaded ACDSee...and have not yet attempted to try to import the old org. Actually, I think I know the answer.
Michi will be rather busy for awhile.

[Karen]

Having to open psd 's all the time is so frustrating and time consuming.:(

That is why I do not use psd file format. I always use the tiff format.

Karen

[msbrad]

That is why I do not use psd file format. I always use the tiff format.

Karen
Well now...I never thought of that one.
Still have the layers??
Still prints ok??

If the answer is yes, can you find me a brick wall to hit my hard head on, please?

DH got me 'viewable' here.
http://www.josh.biz/tech/6-view_psd_thumbnails.html

[Karen]

Yes - yes. It is the only format I use with PSE. And NO, I will not find you a brick wall. PSD was developed by Adobe for use in their program and their program alone; whereas TIFF is a universal file format that can be viewed cross program and cross platform.

Karen

[Traci]

And it renders about the same sized file as a PSD file....you will get a warning when you save in the TIFF format that saving layers will increase the file size. Just click OK and ignore the warning.

ALSO....If you use Bridge...PSD's are viewable in Bridge without any other plug ins. AND....Preset Viewer (http://www.tumasoft.com/) can also be used to view PSD's.

[Tailz61]

oooh thanks Traci I didn't know that re preset viewer...must go look and have a play...all my psd are psd and will take for ever to convert to tiffs :)

[Ellen]

oh thank you Karen and Traci.. This got me running to install the preset Viewer on my laptop but....my verification code for it is on the PC that died last week:( I've now sent an email to Tumasoft to ask if they can send me a new code.

I'll try a Tiff version in the meantime Karen , it would save such a lot of hassle to see the thumbnails.

[msbrad]

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r30/prophet_o_peace/emoticons/th_brick.gif (http://media.photobucket.com/image/hit head brick wall/prophet_o_peace/emoticons/brick.gif?o=1)
well, this old brain will give these tips a try. I sure wish I knew about the psd thingy awhile ago.
thanks bunches ♥

but on a good news front...I deleted over 6G yesterday in duplicate kits, and zipps from just 4 designers!

[Ellen]

well done Michi , that has created some space to buy some more:)

[msbrad]

well done Michi , that has created some space to buy some more:)
yup!!!!!:p

[Traci]

well done Michi , that has created some space to buy some more:)

yup!!!!!:p

:rofl2: Spoken like true scrappers! And people ask me why I love you.....:p

[Marcie]

I didn't know that about the preset viewer either. I have that. I save in psd, but hate that I can't see them. So I have another folder called web and that has the same organization as my psd files, but saved for web version. THen I see them and just go back to the other folder to get the psd file. LOL. That took a long time to think up too.

[landorasue]

I'm an ACDSee12 gal - been using ACDSee for a couple of year and I love it! You can send fonts, styles and brushes to Photoshop from within the program and I find it very easy to categorize my stash.

I really love ACDSee, but have had problems with it crashing or it simply quits working. Right now, it's not working. I receive a message that there is a system problem and it must close down.

I'm working with ACDSee to correct the problem, but so far nothing is working. We have done a registry cleanup, uninstall/reinstall. Now they think the actual database has been corrupted. Doesn't sound good. Waiting to hear what the next step will be.

The program quit working the other day when I was downloading photos from my memory card to the computer. Once the pictures loaded through ACDSee Device Manager, I could not tag them, and all my thumbnails, tags, etc. had disappeared. :eek:

[landorasue]

I use my own system in Explorer and have done since I began using Photoshop, back about version 5.5. My photos are organized and cross-referenced by date, person, and subject. My purchased kits are organized by designer and cross referenced by either store or web site. I do NOT divide up the kits into separate components. If I download a font or template, I also have files for just those things.....I also have files for general classifications such as holidays, children, pets, etc.

I tried ACDSee, but I was already so entrenched, that I gave up. :rolleyes:

Traci, I don't quite understand how you tag with Win7. I was playing around with the Win7 tagging system, but could not tag PNGs, PSDs, or folders. So are your digi kits just organized in folders, but not tagged?

[Digidonna]

Wow, a lot of great ideas! I used the organizer in PSE and now I use Bridge for Photoshop. I am going to have to give the viewer a try.
I have a folder for websites such as the Den that I use most often. In these folders, I have folders for the challenges, collabs, kits by designer.
I have a folder for finished layouts and file by family members and friends and misc.
I have a folder for graphics/templates with many sub-folders such as holiday graphics, children graphics, flower graphics, border graphics, frame graphics, etc.
I have a goodies folder with files for brushes, styles, overlays, shapes.
I keep these files on my EHD.
My photos are filed by date. I rename those folders with what is in them.

[landorasue]

When I first got PSE 8 about a year ago, I tried using the Organizer, but it caused PSE not to work correctly. I read over at the Elements Village that this was happening to other. Fix: delete ALL tags and don't use Organizer. I did this, and the problem was solved. I had wanted to use Organizer thinking not to upgrade ACDSee and have one less software program on my computer. I ended up upgrading to ACDSee 12, which is now having database issues. Just heard from ACDSee tech this morning that I have to delete the database (thus removing ALL my tags, captions, notes, etc.). I can restore my last backup, though, but there was about three weeks of work that I'll have to retag...that is if deleting the database fixes the problem.

[GreenEyedLadyDesigns]

Just heard from ACDSee tech this morning that I have to delete the database (thus removing ALL my tags, captions, notes, etc.). I can restore my last backup, though, but there was about three weeks of work that I'll have to retag...that is if deleting the database fixes the problem.

Sue! Wait! If you have used ACDSee 12's "ebed" function, you WILL NOT lose your tagging when you delete your database. When you reopen once the database has been deleted, you can "catalog" your files and the tagging will be there, along with your category structure.

If you haven't been embedding as you go along, you can do that before you delete the database. You open a folder in ACDSee, select all of the elements in that folder and then right click - you should see an option to "embed".

vicki

[landorasue]

Oh, Vicki, I've been thinking for a LONG time, I need to try the embed feature...never did it. The problem is that when I open ACDSee, I receive an error message that there is a system error and ACDSee must close down. If I ignore the message, and click over onto the ACDSee window, I can navigate to various folders, but ALL my thumbnails, tags, notes, etc., are GONE. I'm so discouraged.

[landorasue]

Vicki, I just tried to ignore the error message and restore my backup. ACDSee won't allow me to do it.

[GreenEyedLadyDesigns]

I'm so sorry this is happening to you! What a pain.

I assume tech support already had you move your database to another location then uninstall ACDSee, reboot and reinstall?

[landorasue]

No, Vicki, they did NOT have me move my database when I uninstalled/reinstalled ACDSee. So does that mean the database is gone?

[landorasue]

Great news! My ACDSee is up and running again. Only lost a few hours worth of tagging.

Live and Learn:

*Create ACDSee backup after tagging anything significant
*Learn to EMBED database info in files (will do this tomorrow)

Vicki, since RAW, PSD, and ABR formats do not support XMP embedding, do you have the database info written to sidecar files for these formats, or just leave those formats alone and depend on your backups to restore database info those formats, if needed?

[GreenEyedLadyDesigns]

That's such great news!

I don't know if you've ever seen the site below, but when I was going through their forums I came across a thread suggesting that using sidecars for those file types would ultimately cause problems and suggesting to not do so - especially PSD files. I took that advice and made sure to run the database maintenance tools regularly and backup my files to another location independent of ACDSee. I also tagged and categorized all my tutorials - both video and pdfs and did not write sidecars for those either.

This site is pretty much dedicated to "unofficial" support of ACDSee. Heidi is extremely responsible and very helpful. If you are interested, I know of a self-paced class on using ACDSee for scrapbook organization. Let me know if you're interested and I'll PM you the info.

http://www.digiscrapinfo.com/forums

[landorasue]

Yes! I have a shortcut to Heidi's site on my desktop! I'll pop over there and read what she has to say on sidecars. Yes, send me the link for the class. I've been using ACDSee for a number of years, bit there's always more to learn. Thanks.

[landorasue]

Vicki, is here anyway to "batch" embed database info in ACDSee without going into every folder and selecting all the files individually?

Oh, and how can you tell at a glance that you have embedded the info?

[GreenEyedLadyDesigns]

I haven't found a way to batch embed - bummer huh? Not so bad if you are embedding as you are tagging, but not great if you have lots of catch up to do. No way to tell by looking if a file as already been embedded. When you try to embed a file that has already been, you'll get a message to that effect. But that's it.

Sent you a PM last nite with the class info.

[landorasue]

I did figure out that I can select however many folders I want, do a Search, which opens all the files in the folders. Then, I can select all the files and embed. That's a little faster. It will take a while, but I WILL get it done.

I did get your PM and looked at the site. I think I would enjoy the class. There are always little tips I'm sure would be helpful. I know how to do most of what is listed.

[pssequimages]

Ditto every word Traci said (in post #6)---in addition, I work month to month, gathering things into one folder, then at the end of the month--send the kits and goodies off to the designer's folder that has everything of hers in it---back that up then to EHD and for the sites like Scrappers Guide and Artisan's Guild and Papers and Pixels----burn the monthly materials to a dvd together with everything I did with items from those sites.

And I also consistently use Bridge where I am NOT so good about tagging as I should be. It makes the last day of the month VERY interesting and busy. But no matter how hard I try---I find it impossible to have done a good enough job to locate a particular paper or element I remember and want that minute! :rofl2:

[Tailz61]

well I've decided to take the plunge and tag my CU Stash with keywords in bridge but I'm a little concerned about doing it all as I'm not sure if I can save them and I know that I'm getting a new HDD very very soon so I don't want to waste my time. Does anyone know if you can save them and if so HOW :)...i've googled and can't seem to find anything. I do like ACDSee but at this stage don't want too buy it and as bridge comes with adobe I may as well struggle and learn it. Picassa is good but I've not been able to find how to save tags there either and after learning the hard way that a reformat means re tagging I've not bothered since but it's a pain not having everything at my finger tips :)

[landorasue]

well I've decided to take the plunge and tag my CU Stash with keywords in bridge but I'm a little concerned about doing it all as I'm not sure if I can save them and I know that I'm getting a new HDD very very soon so I don't want to waste my time. Does anyone know if you can save them and if so HOW :)...i've googled and can't seem to find anything. I do like ACDSee but at this stage don't want too buy it and as bridge comes with adobe I may as well struggle and learn it. Picassa is good but I've not been able to find how to save tags there either and after learning the hard way that a reformat means re tagging I've not bothered since but it's a pain not having everything at my finger tips :)

I've used ACDSee for a number of years and although I like it's tagging/search features, there are some major issues with ACDSee. Read this thread before purchasing so you don't ruin your layered files:

http://www.digitaldesignden.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2057

[Tailz61]

Thanks Lana...will have a peek at that link :)

[Traci]

Lesley, Adobe puts a small file into each tagged file that carries the information on tagging, metadata and all that. If you restore your backed up files to the new EHD, they SHOULD carry the tagging information along with them so it will be there when you open them in Bridge after you have reinstalled it. Hope this helps!

[Tailz61]

thanks traci yes it does, help that is...knew you'd have the answer :)....I've only done a few tags as I thought it safest this way and I can use it as a test case. about to change over shortly...well got the swapped box got the new HDD but now hubby can't get his hdd to even exist on my old box, keeps coming up with strange chars in the bios and they keep changing all the time too...very odd indeed but I have faith he'll figure it out...hate to think how much hair he'll have left though :(

[Traci]

Uh, oh! That doesn't sound good...hope the HDD is OK and not on it's way out...

[landorasue]

I wish I had CS__ and Bridge again. But I don't. I would use Elements Organizer, but had issues with it not working correctly, either. I can't remember now what it did, but it had something to do with the tagging causing issues within the Editor. It was really strange, but a known issue. And the only way to get rid of the problem was to delete all the tags.

[Tailz61]

no traci it survived...was something to do with ide slots or something lol...but he's got it working and saved everything to the exhdd just in case lol I was worried just in case I had a virus on my old mboard as he had about 6yrs worth of music on that drive...

just what you don't want ay lana...after all the hard working of tagging to have to remove them again...bet that would have been just as time consuming too :(

[Traci]

I am so glad your DH got things working, Lesley! Yup...I know about IDE slots.... PIA! :D

[coppercurls]

I got a 2T External on sale a couple weeks ago and finally am getting it set to back up tonight. My last one would only hold 1 back up. not good.

[Traci]

(drool!) I want one! :D

[Tailz61]

Just an update...finished putting all my stuff back and I'm happy to say the test run with adobe bridge and the few keywords I added are still there...now I can spend a fun day working on the rest of my stash :)

[landorasue]

Have fun getting everything organized again. I wish Bridge came with PSE.