how do you manage...
 

all your Stevie photos?

I have a Mac and use iPhoto. I love it. BUT, I'm getting to where I have thousands of Stevie photos and I was curious how you all organize, save, etc. all your pictures. I need to put them all on disc to save in case I have a crash. Speaking of backing up, I seriously need to back up my iTunes in a bitch ass bad kind of way. I would die if I lost all that music.

I didn't up until a few days ago. I am now seperating them into three categories...Pro/Magazine Shots- Live/Concerts and Misc. When I am done with that, I will subcategorize those three again. But it's a lot of work. :nod:

it is. I swear I need to get organized.

i did the whole categorize bit by copying/moving...then dumped the original and lost stuff...whatever you do...careful :wavey:

It's kind of hard to tell with some, but I try to organize by YEAR or by TOUR other then that, it ends up in the misc. folder.

ORGANIZE!? What is that?:laugh: Seriously, I need to start doing some. I did get a nice photo book to put in some of the different Mac photos that I have. As for my PC I have so much stuff on it all just under My Pictures and I just scroll through them. Most of my older Stevie photos are on a seperate folder with my old PC files so it makes it a bit easier.
I just started trying to get all of my DVDs organized.:laugh:

Both FM and Stevie pics are mostly all in one folder - but I always rename them to something I think I'll remember what it is, without having to open the file. Beginning with the SYW tour, pics are organized by city.

I have floppy disks galore from my last job, everything I had on that computer. And more stuff I've moved onto zip disks from my current job's work computer. Once I get a zip drive at home, I can access those...but I'm sure I have duplicates of all kinds of stuff...I do a print screen from Windows Explorer and paste into Word the list of files. Then I print that, cut it out, and stick it in the disk like album liner notes, so I can find crap easier....

All my audio stuff is organized by album - boots, demos, outtakes, etc. And the live stuff is organized the same, by tour and city.

I had all my Mac and Stevie pictures in one folder but it go too hard to find anything so I started separating everything. I tried to do it by years or tours. Like I have "StevieEarlyFMyears", which I will put anything from the WA or Rumours era. Eventually, I may subcategorize further but right now I am still working on getting everything separated. We just had that Halloween thread, so I started a folder called "MacHalloween" and saved everything to that folder from the thread. I then went back and deleted any duplicates. Now, everything I save, I try to put it right into its specific folder...
I also rename everything so I can find specific pictures when I want them. I do not care how long the name is either. :laugh:

My audio files are a mess. I have the live boots all separated nicely but demos are a nightmare. I have a hard time with things being labeled differently from one person to another so I have many duplicates, just labeled slightly different. I made a folder for each era like "TISL demos". For Lindsey, I just made one folder because he does not have nearly as many demos as La Nicks. I

oh my god, i hear ya. i have so many duplicates of tracks, so many folders... i believe i actually have every demo ever recorded, but they are in no organized fashion on my computer. i haven't even listened to them all - i definitely haven't listened to all the live tracks i have. i just like having them. all i can say... thank god for the "search" function. :laugh:

im going to have to read this to get some ideas~!! Though 98% of my stuff has been lost.

I ditto that.

It's gonna take one serious weekend to straighten this out. I would suck down songs and not even listen to them, just to have it. But now as I get older, and time making me bolder, I will be deleting many of them. I'm no longer interested in crap audio boots. My ears just can't take listening to them, rare or not.

It's like you weed out the bad stuff and keep the good. I know exactly what youre talking about.

When I download stuff I may or may not already have, I put it on my desktop. And then usually once a week, I do a cleanup and decide if it's a keeper or trash it...

I must admit, my Stevie/FM photos are in a mess. However, I mostly have my music files in folders labeled what city or tour it is from. I even shove the interview files into folders so they are all together.

I threw all the SYW related stuff (photos and music) all in one folder labeled SYW and am finally burning them onto CD's.

I can relate to all the duplicate stuff. I download as much as I can, while we still can (with the RIAA police and all) :rolleyes:
Since people label files differently, I grab them and then sort it all out later.
For music though, I did create a demos folder too. I also just have a misc. folder that somehow I just know what is in there.

My Husband asks me why I download so many versions of the same song. I answer "because they are all different" with Stevie's adlibs, different musicians, different audience interactions, etc.. make each song different and special even though it is technically the same song.