Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi again Tina, I am tiring you out as well as myself. I think what I must do is get more involved with the actual mechanics of iView, I may be concerned about a problem that exist only in my fevered mind but not in the reality of iView. So, I shall play for awhile by adding some Kodak disks and see how things go. If I encounter my thought problems I would ask for your kind help again. Regards, and thanks again. Michael. Against stupidity the Gods themselves struggle in vain. /Schiller/ On Sep 16, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > No, Michael, I don't. Once you move them to the catalog folder and > tell iView to catalog them, it just does it. There is no time lag. > Portfolio has a folder watch feature that automatically adds > anything new to the watched folders but I don't like that. I want > to be in charge of what is added when. I don't add new files until > I'm ready to catalog them. I may spend a day working on files and > adding them to the catalog and then the next day I tell iView to > add them. It only takes a few minutes and they are added. It will > only add new files, not duplicate old ones. Is that what you mean? > > Tina > > At 06:08 PM 9/16/2005, you wrote: > >> Hi Tina, >> >> Your last sentence is the exact problem that is not clear to me. >> After I move a file from "uncataloged" to the "Cataloged" folder, >> now I want to cataloged those I've just moved, how, when I open the >> folder, do I know which have have not yet been catalogued? Do you see >> my question? I hope. >> >> Michael >> >> Against stupidity the Gods themselves struggle in vain. /Schiller/ >> >> On Sep 16, 2005, at 2:26 PM, Tina Manley wrote: >> >> >>> Michael - >>> >>> iView will catalog them under whatever name you have them on the >>> hard drive. If I kept mine on the hard drive, I would use the name >>> of the folder for the ultimate catalog. For example: Honduras >>> families for me would be folder 61953. Anything that hadn't been >>> cataloged could be in one folder named Uncataloged or whatever you >>> want to name it. You can add more to the iView catalogs whenever >>> you want to, so when you move new stuff to the 61953 folder, you >>> would just add them to that catalog in iView and it would note >>> where they are. >>> >>> I'm not understanding your problem but that may be age on my >>> part ;-) >>> >>> Tina >>> >>> >>> At 05:16 PM 9/16/2005, you wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Tina, >>>> Thanks for the reply. >>>> So, if I dump the new files into a folder say "not catalogued" and >>>> then via iView catalogue them won't iView show them in the "not >>>> catalogued" folder. Or, as I run them through iView can I direct >>>> the >>>> actual file to another folder, e.g., "catalouged"? This is the >>>> problem I just can't seen to get my mind around. Must be age. >>>> >>>> Michael. >>>> >>>> Against stupidity the Gods themselves struggle in vain. /Schiller/ >>>> >>>> On Sep 16, 2005, at 2:02 PM, Tina Manley wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> At 04:53 PM 9/16/2005, you wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> This is just what I am about to undertake. Lots of pictures from >>>>>> over >>>>>> 50 years. I will scan and then use iView to catalogue. In >>>>>> trying to >>>>>> get the logistics straight I cannot seem to see my way out of the >>>>>> trees. >>>>>> I begin with a scan, or any other form of file, then I had >>>>>> thought my >>>>>> solution was to dump them all in a folder on my external HD and >>>>>> using >>>>>> iView catalogue them. But, after I dump them in the folder how >>>>>> do I >>>>>> know which have been cataloged and which not? If I just dive >>>>>> into my >>>>>> folder the files will be random, and I see no way to tell >>>>>> which to >>>>>> run through iVew. >>>>>> If anyone sees my problem and has a thought please let me know. >>>>>> >>>>>> Michael >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Michael - >>>>> >>>>> If you intend on putting them on DVDs or some other storage >>>>> ultimately, it would be better to do ahead and do that since iView >>>>> automatically catalogs the location of the files. I keep mine >>>>> on a >>>>> hard drive until I'm ready to catalog, then I use Archive Creator >>>>> to determine how many DVDs I will need and name each one >>>>> sequentially or however I want. I burn the DVDs and then >>>>> import to >>>>> iView from the DVDs. iView records the name of the DVD for each >>>>> file that is cataloged. When you look at the preview for any >>>>> photo, it will tell you which DVD the photo is on. >>>>> >>>>> If, on the other hand, you intend to keep them on the hard drive >>>>> then you could separate them into folders - a certain name for >>>>> those cataloged, which you would want anyway since iView will >>>>> record them that way, and another folder for those not yet >>>>> cataloged. >>>>> >>>>> Hope this helps. >>>>> >>>>> Tina >>>>> >>>>> Tina Manley, ASMP >>>>> www.tinamanley.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >>>>> information >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >>>> information >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >