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Subject: [Leica] Cataloging negatives
From: mipaine at comcast.net (G. Michael Paine)
Date: Fri Sep 16 15:50:10 2005
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Steve,

I don't know as I have the Mac version. But I'll take a look and see  
if I can find something that looks like what you suggest.

Michael

Against stupidity the Gods themselves struggle in vain. /Schiller/

On Sep 16, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Steve Unsworth wrote:

> In the Windows version you can right click on your 'catalogued' folder
> and select 'update' The program will then add any images not already
> catalogued to the iView catalogue.
>
> Does this answer your question?
>
> Steve
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+mail=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+mail=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org] On  
> Behalf
> Of G. Michael Paine
> Sent: 16 September 2005 23:09
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Cataloging negatives
>
>
> 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
>>>>
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Replies: Reply from henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff) ([Leica] Cataloging negatives)
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