Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 01/02/09 13:02, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Fri January 2 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > I created folders, usualy by date, with a description after that.. like
> > > 12-24-2008-xmas
> > You're a smart guy, Paul, so I know you'll give a reasoned answer:
> > why do people create subdirs in format MM-DD-YYYY, since that will
> > put all of the Marches together, instead of YYYY-MM-DD?
>
> I'm an old dog, and I just find it easier to read MM-DD-YYYY. PLUS I tend to 
> look for folders by month, not year.. spring photos of plants, July pictures 
> of our grand baby(born in July).. and if you sort by the DATE field, not 
> name, the newest are at the bottom :)

Seems reasonable.

The patterns %%%%-01-*jpg or %%%%-07-jpg would work just as well. 
I'd probably symlink the YYYY-MM-DD files into subdirs like Spring, 
Birthdays, etc.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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