Another busy day in Lightroom. I have now got all my files in collections by Year. Now breaking down Years into Months, then projects. It’s tedious but necessary to do it manually (with filters and smart collections to help).
@aeryn I created folders for dates (years and then months) and collections around events (Thanksgiving, trip to main, etc). I didn’t that doing collections by year/month is just repetitive. Just curious why this way?
@jtr Long story but I have 20 years of 170K files mixed in with other non-image files, many dupes, some with non-obvious file names/folder names, and/or no metadata. I need to eyeball the files and leave folder structures intact as I move them into my new folder structure on an adhoc basis. Some of this I have to do outside Lightroom so I don’t orphan files that belong together. I’m doing it piecemeal so I can find old projects and collate before I maybe publish them. I have done Years so far. Months will be done as I go along, as a way of finding projects and a bit more care needs to be taken. I expect this process to take many months or maybe years.
@aeryn Yikes! Sounds like a lot of work and I salute your determination. Yep I don’t have anything like that so my life is simpler in that regard.
Good luck though! I enjoy reading about other photographers workflow and just organizational stuff in general.