How are your supplies organized on your Hard Drive?

[CrystalMarie]

For use in ACDSee.... the tutorials start in ACDSee, but it would seem to me like you've got have some sort of organization on your hard drive itself, just to be able to organize your stuff in ACDSee. Obviously a Digital Scrapbooking folder, but then what? Individual website folders? Individual designer folders? How are they organized within you digital scrapbook folder (on your hard drive)? Thanks for your ideas!

Also, if I can throw another question in here, if a kit comes in seperate folders, ie. papers in one folder, alphabets in another folder, embellishments in another folder, do you just combine them all into one folder for more simple organizing in ACDSee? Maybe keeping the alphabets seperate... Is there any reason to keep the papers and embellishments in seperate folders?

[emandlivsmom]

I asked this question a couple months back and it seems that many organize their kits by designer. So I have the following folders: scrapbooking>DSP>designer name>kit name

I have another folder that has random items from other sites, but it is a fraction (tiny tiny fraction!) of my stuff so I put them all together.


I keep all my folders the way they come to me...I don't think merging them into one folder will affect organizing in ACDSee. Only when you categorize you will need to open each folder, but after that ACDSee does all the work. I may be wrong on this...I'm sure someone else will chime in about what they do!!

[Bocca]

Crystal, I remember reading on the DigiScrapInfo.com site (ACDSee site) that it might be better to combine all items from one kit into the main folder (except alpha) rahter than keeping them in separate folders within the main kit folder. Since most of the kits from here are in one folder, I don't run into that very often. I just remember reading about it. You might pose that question on their forum. Sorry I can't help much. Seems to me it would just keep less layers of folders that you see on the left in ACDSee.

I keep my folders the same as Jennifer. Scrapbooking>Website store name>Designer name>kit name I keep all items from one kit together.

[faerywings]

Hey Crystal- did you see the Organizing Styles (http://www.digiscrapinfo.com/dsiwiki/OrganizingStyles) All you have to do is follow Heidi's instructions on how to load them into the program- it is a really good way to get people jump started with the tagging and organizing.

My folders are set up with my CT teams first, then I have backgrounds(Subfolders of colors), elements(sub's of different types), kits (Winter, Fall, Spring Summer, General), Templates.

I don't like lots of "inner folders" for kits. What I do when I unzip is I create one main folder, and then everything else goes into that folder. If there is an alpha as psrt of the kit, -that I keep in the folder.

[CrystalMarie]

Awesome. Thanks all. That's actually just what I did last night (this morning) when I started organizing. (I just bought ACDSee and I'm so excited! I didnt want to go to bed!) Site name, designer name, kit name. And I thought that I would want everything in one folder, so those were great confirmations. I did see the organizing styles and already downloaded one. I was actually referring to how things were organized on my hard drive before I put them into ACDSee. Thanks!

Now I'm wondering... (In ACDSee now)... Why should I put (for example) a blue & white polkadot ribbon into a 'blue' folder, a 'ribbon' folder, a 'white' folder and a 'polka dots' folder, when I could just write 'blue ribbon white dots' in the tags and when I was doing a blue page and searched 'blue' it would come up with the blue ribbon... I wouldnt necessarily even need to look in my 'blue' folder because everything blue would have blue in the tag and would come up under a search right? So isnt it kind of pointless to both do tags and drag-n-drop categorizing? Wouldnt it make more sense to do one or the other? Does that make sense? What have you all found? A lot of the organizing styles had a lot of sub-folders, and it would fun to be able to click a 'winter' folder and have everything for winter come up, but if its all tagged, (which would take less time since you can do all the tagging at one time, where dragging and dropping is much more time consuming) everything that would be in the 'winter' folder would come up anyway in a search wouldnt it? Basically the same thing as looking in a 'winter' folder?

[Bocca]

Yes, I agree, Crystal. However, everybody has a different way of scrapping and organizing that works for them. I only want my folders on the hard drive organized site>designer>kit, but I want more detailed tagging in ACDSee. Per your example if I want to look at all the "winter" kits, I have my kit previews only tagged by subject. I don't tag every item that might be winter, just only the kit preview itself. Once I select a kit then all I have to do is right click on the preview and select go to folder to find that particular kit. KWIM?

[bensenc]

I just browsed this quickly, but you may want to keep each kit in it's own folder. That way you can use the Go To Folder feature if you want to.

[quanita]

For additional HD storage I also add, what type of folder it is
Page Kit - I add PK after folder name
Add on Pack I add AOP after folder name
Embellishment Set I add E after folder name
then I also add something that indicates if I the kit is a freebie or posting bonus F and in my case this is important because I need to identify kits I have a commercial license for and if I want to purchase a commercial license for kits I got free, I will first have to purchase the kit then the license