![]() But such solutions to file management problems can backfire. Some may argue that whatever works, that’s what you do. Here are a few common scenarios I have personally seen. Lacking digital organizational skills, educators and students resort to other approaches. When they need to locate it again, who knows? It’s too easy to create a file wherever they may be on their device or the cloud, then forget about it. The fact is, they lack the mental schema for organizing digital files into folders. I have seen it firsthand on the desktops of teachers, directors, and colleagues in K-12. The problem isn’t only with college students. The concept of file folders and directories…is gibberish to many modern students. Key FindingsĬollege professors are encountering a growing problem with their students. Let’s take a look at some ways you can improve your file management skills.įirst, let’s review findings from a The Verge article, File Not Found by Monica Chin. However, the advent of cloud storage and obscure file saving protocols confuse many. Those experiences, beginning at age 13, have served me well. I spent most of my time at the command line, typing in text commands to copy, move, and delete files and folders. Having grown up organizing files and folders on floppy disks and hard drives, I can find most things. Thank you so much, Tilman, for making this program.“I hate Google, I can’t ever find anything,” says a colleague (name withheld). ![]() While this process is taking much longer than I anticipated, at least it's possible. I never expected that iPhoto would make it so hard to get at the originals. When I trusted my collection to iPhoto, I knew most of the organization was being stored in a proprietary database format, but for some reason I assumed there would be a reasonable way to export the data. I've had some luck by exporting the results from DupeGuru to CSV, then using regexes in Sublime Text to massage that data into a bash script that moves and removes the files as I'd like. I'm finding that (a) is easy to correct using DupeGuru, (b) is tricky, and (c) is worrisome. I'm assuming this is unavoidable, as PhoShare is guessing based on filenames and dates, as it cannot get this information from the iPhoto database. (c) Occasionally, an entire event will have the originals from a different event. Though I can't visually see any difference in the photo, it bothers me to not have the original. I can verify that the image has been changed by looking at the histogram in Lightroom, which clearly is different for the two versions of the photos. ![]() I have maybe 30,000 photos where the modified image is slightly different than the original, and I know I have not edited even close to that number. (b) iPhoto re-saves photos for reasons other than actually editing them (resulting in quality loss). (a) As you mentioned, many of the originals are exact copies of the modified image. ![]() ![]() (By the way, iPhoto is quite unstable with a collection this large.) I found a tool called DupeGuru-PE (which is free if you follow the instructions in the license) that compares the image contents using some algorithm, and unfortunately the situation is worse than I had thought. I'm going through the same thing, trying to switch to Lightroom with a library of 60,000 photos. ![]()
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