Complete Overhaul of my Entire (4 Year) Body of works

[ronandownes]

My Life files are ony a fraction of my work and my DVD backups are based on the bucket system but are full of duplicates and are not indexed.

I have begun the ambitios plan of creating an organised archive. Advice and predictions if it will work will be very welcome. There is a lot at stage.

6 PCs. 4 Desktops and two Laptops. All on a network.

I am ingesting using FolderMatch and dropping folders off to a watched folder ( Lightroom) on each PC respectively and naming The autoImport renames the files yyyymmdd_hhmmss

If there i a duplicate it adds  -1,-2,-3 respectively.

I sieve out duplicates by using Better File Select with a condition of contains -  ( ( this is why I ued an underscore in the name format)

So ar I have brought maybe 10 DVD onto each machine.


This will continue and also I will need to start merging the autoimported files to a central location.


I am thinking of Raid combining 3 750 gig drives and just loading in millions of files in the format of yymmdd_hhmmss


My primary machine MB is the Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6


If it works and all the files are unique and in the name format I then would like to know what you would suggest next.


Direct to Buckets- then to Lightroom with import in location then include the bucket numbers in the keywords?

Ronan

[ronandownes]

Folks,

this


http://thedambook.com/smf/index.php?topic=3117.0


ties in here.

My main issue or question now is how to control and stream my files taht are coming through 6 PCs on the Network. Lightroom makes a wonderful job of renaming and finding duplicates but I gather for the scale of operation  am undertaking and the fact that it is not DAMed already I will need to use iview. Perhps I should import directly to  iView but there is  alearning curve and I dion't know if there si as simple a way to deal with the importng of duplicates as there is in LR. Of course I could avoid removing duplicates by keeping "Do NOt import Suspected Duplicats on. is this reliable.At least aftera dup rename I see -2,-3 etc as confirmation.

Ronan

[peterkrogh]

Ronan,
I suggest that the *first* thing you want to do it to catalog the images as they currently exist.  This will give you a snapshot of the starting point, and a whole lot more information about the task ahead of you than any other method.

Save these catalogs so that you can see where you came from, in the event that files seem to be missing from your new structure.

I suggest that RAID is needlessly complex. If you are not on the high end of tech savvy (I consider myself marginally qualified to safely implement RAID), then I think you should shy away from it and just go for JBOD.

iView/Expression really helps you sort out the duplicates moore efficiently than working in the directory or in Lightroom can.

Peter

[ronandownes]

HI Peter,

how can Expression sort out the duplicates?

Ronan

[peterkrogh]

Ronan,
Run the Show Similar command.
Save the results as a catalog set.
Examine.
Peter