which date to use for date archived method of originals buckets

[Sossity Corby]

I read that Peter uses a date archived method for when a last folder was added to a bucket, what date would I use? say I am finishing off a bucket Raw_006 it has reached a DVD size ready to burn to backup, & I give this bucket Raw_006 a date, what date to use? the date the last folder was created/added, or the date that the Raw_006 bucket was burned to a disc?

So far, I have not included a date after the Raw_00#, but just had the Raw_00#, with date folders inside with photos taken for that day with a brief description of content. But if I go back over my buckets & add date to them, for my past ones, what date would be best? ie; Raw_006_date this was burned to a DVD? or date the last folder was added to Raw_006 in explore?

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[markpirozzi]

I don't place any date after my bucket folders except for the last one of the year which I add    ", end 2010".   However, all the files are in continuos chronological order from one bucket to the next. I usually only fill the buckets to about 90% capacity in case I come across a few files later that were missed.  My only exception to the chronological order is at the end of the year I take all the photos that were taken by others, and that I want to backup using my archive system, and I put them in subfolder in the last bucket(s) for the year.  As those files were sent to me throughout the year, I add a prefix to the file name consisting of someone's initials and date of the photo, or the date I received it if I don't know the date it was taken.  I have A Better Finder Renamer droplet that speeds this up if do over a few files at a time.

I don't distribute to buckets until I have built up a number of buckets worth of files.  It makes completing metadata more efficient for me if I finalize a large number of files at once.  This does delay burning to disc, which adds risk, but I do keep an offsite copy on a HD that gets swapped every 2 weeks.

If the chronological order of the files are not continuous from one bucket to the next, adding the date of a file in the bucket would be misleading.

I think after about 6-9 months into implementing the bucket system, I had to rethink what I was doing to be more efficient but what works for the number and type of originals I was dealing with, what works with the software I was using, and still follows the basic principals of Peter's DAM system.