I will be jumping to Reunion 11 in a day or two. I will also be moving from iPhoto to Photos. I've used iPhoto for years with Reunion. LeisterPro no longer recommends that. I suspect I have more than a thousand linked photos and scans. Should I move everything out of iPhoto/Photos and relink? In other words, does anyone have a suggestion, if possible at all, on how to unlink all of these and relink them outside of iPhoto/Photos? Is it even a good idea at all? Any organization methodologies appreciated, too.
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I have my more recent (digitally taken) photos in iPhoto but I periodically run them out as JPG files to an external disk drive so that I am not dependent on the proprietary "blob o' photos" file that Apple creates. (I've been burned too many times by depending on proprietary format files that become inaccessible later.)
I do not link any of my photos or media from iPhoto. I have everything in JPG, PNG, and TIFF files in folders on my computer using a naming convention like this:
MENDENHALLMarieLilBettyCarrieDoraMickey5Apr1942.jp g
I have the originals (right of the scanner) in a folder called Original Photos, organized by where the physical photos are located (boxes, albums, other people, etc.) I have copies of all of them in another folder (Processed Photos) where I have sometimes cleaned them up or edited them. In this folder they are stored in nested folders based on the common ancestral couple. So, my mom and dad and their kids (myself included before I was married) are in a folder. My brother and sister's photos are in that folder as well as pictures of their kids. Inside my parents' folder are a folder for each of their parents. My mom's baby pictures are in the one for her parents along with pictures of them (marriage and beyond) and any cousins who share them as ancestors. And so on with each successive generation nested in folders all the way up the tree. Using this system I can find a photo pretty quickly most of the time. I link from Reunion to the files in the Processed Photos folders.
Don
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Re: Transferring photos/scans out of Photos app
Originally posted by donworth View PostI have my more recent (digitally taken) photos in iPhoto but I periodically run them out as JPG files to an external disk drive so that I am not dependent on the proprietary "blob o' photos" file that Apple creates. (I've been burned too many times by depending on proprietary format files that become inaccessible later.)
I do not link any of my photos or media from iPhoto. I have everything in JPG, PNG, and TIFF files in folders on my computer using a naming convention like this:
MENDENHALLMarieLilBettyCarrieDoraMickey5Apr1942.jp g
I have the originals (right of the scanner) in a folder called Original Photos, organized by where the physical photos are located (boxes, albums, other people, etc.) I have copies of all of them in another folder (Processed Photos) where I have sometimes cleaned them up or edited them. In this folder they are stored in nested folders based on the common ancestral couple. So, my mom and dad and their kids (myself included before I was married) are in a folder. My brother and sister's photos are in that folder as well as pictures of their kids. Inside my parents' folder are a folder for each of their parents. My mom's baby pictures are in the one for her parents along with pictures of them (marriage and beyond) and any cousins who share them as ancestors. And so on with each successive generation nested in folders all the way up the tree. Using this system I can find a photo pretty quickly most of the time. I link from Reunion to the files in the Processed Photos folders.
Don
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