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DAM with ACDsee pro - A few questions to the Author

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  • smokeonthewater
    Member

    When I first got on ACDsee's forums, I had a bunch of questions regarding elements of a potential workflow with ACSsee. Most of the answers to my past and present questions ont eh workflow were actually answered in the article quoted here below.

    http://community.acdsee.com/pro/2007/08/digital-asset-management-dam-with-acdsee-pro-2-part-15/

    You seem keen on the DVD capacity sized bucket system. Don't many good burners smartly split and distribute the files evenly on the number of DVDs needed to complete the burning operation regardless of the initial data size ?

    So my question is; apart from the easiness of burning right sized buckets onto DVDs, is there any other reason to keep the bucket systems ?

    Is it ill advised to load all your files directly into the ORIGINAL folder without any subfolder in it ?

    Posted On January 1, 2009 - 08:44 PM (10 months ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • Marc Sabatella
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    smokeonthewater said:

    You seem keen on the DVD capacity sized bucket system. Don't many good burners smartly split and distribute the files evenly on the number of DVDs needed to complete the burning operation regardless of the initial data size ?

    Probably so.  Others have pointed this out too, either here or in "The DAM Book" forums.  If you've got a good handle on how to do this and what the implications of that might be for storage management, by all means, go for it.  For me, breaking up my folders into DVD-sized buckets has the advantage of simplicity.  I know when it's time to run a backup - I do it when a bucket reaches 4 GB.  And I know when it's time to start a new folder, so my folders don't grow arbitrarily large - again, I do it when I get to 4 GB.  But one could just as easily decide to break it up by month, or year, or week, or whatever, if you've got the backup issue under control.  I think that's pretty much what Sam does (organizing folders by date, letting the backup software take care of physical location of files).

    Is it ill advised to load all your files directly into the ORIGINAL folder without any subfolder in it ?

    *All* your files? As in, every picture you've ever taken or will take, all in one folder?  Potentially tens or hundreds of thousands of files in one folder?  Neither Windows nor ACDSee do very well with gigantic folders like that.  That's what I meant about keeping the folder from getting arbitrarily large.

    I used to put all images for a given bucket into the same folder, which typically maxed out at under a thousand image files and worked OK.  But at some point, I switched to folders organized by day shot - I think because ImageIngester, which I used prior to Pro 2.5 - did it this way by default.  I found I liked it, so I continue doing this with 2.5's import facility.  Only slightly awkward thing about it is if I decide I want to split a day's images up betwen two buckets, in which case I need to manually create a folder for the date in the new bucket.

     

    Posted On January 2, 2009 - 06:07 AM (10 months ago) (Permalink to this post)

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