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[littlekiwi]

I have a huge stash and it is taking forever for me to tag it.... (but at least my system is now fast enough and reliable enough to hopefully not lose the tagging like previously).

and I have only managed to tag just under 25GB so far and that's only tagging the previews!

 

[elseepe]

That's a lot of stuff. You might play a little with what you have tagged just to see that it is working ok before you do the whole stash.

I also only tag previews -- but I like to be able to scroll through them, when I spot what I'm looking for, I can simply right click to go to the folder and grab what I'm looking for.

 

[littlekiwi]

That's a lot of stuff. You might play a little with what you have tagged just to see that it is working ok before you do the whole stash.

I've done it this way many times before so I know it works for me....I went back to my tried and true method. I just wish it didn't take me as long to do

 

[umyesh]

I don't tag anything but good job making progress on your stash organization!

 

[gonewiththewind]

I am so unorganized right now, BUT when I **did** tagging routinely, I would always pick a designer's folder and then work on small chunks at a time. I was so close to "finished" at one point. Ah well. I'm just rolling with it right now.

 

[dawnmarch]

Can you just search for the file name “folder” and tag a bunch of them at once?

 

[littlekiwi]

Well turns out that was a complete waste of last night....ACDSee corrupted the database yet again so I think I am going to jump ship to either Bridge or Lightroom rather than keep trying with ACDSee considering this isn't the first time its happened (on multiple computers might I add)

 

[cfile]

I do not tag anything. If I need a staple I just do a search in say my LilyPad folder or a specific designer folder and let the computer do the work. No need to waste scrapping time

 

[HavaDrPepper]

I do not tag anything. If I need a staple I just do a search in say my LilyPad folder or a specific designer folder and let the computer do the work. No need to waste scrapping time

That works if that is how you scrap. But being a kit scrapper, I have grown to like having my previews tagged by theme. I'm definitely not into tagging every single item. But in Picasa I can do a search for a specific item if desired. Needed a push pin to mark a spot on a map on a layout the other day and the kit I was using on tornado weather didn't have one.

 

[cfile]

That works if that is how you scrap. But being a kit scrapper, I have grown to like having my previews tagged by theme. I'm definitely not into tagging every single item. But in Picasa I can do a search for a specific item if desired. Needed a push pin to mark a spot on a map on a layout the other day and the kit I was using on tornado weather didn't have one.

I understand completely.. what ever works for the individual.. I just see that Jennifer continuously has this issue with losing her ACD see thingy and she tags and then loses all the work she put into tagging when the program doesn't work right.

 

[littlekiwi]

I understand completely.. what ever works for the individual.. I just see that Jennifer continuously has this issue with losing her ACD see thingy and she tags and then loses all the work she put into tagging when the program doesn't work right.

yes, I can spend hours on it then open it literally a few hours later or a few days later and I've lost all that work.

 

[cfile]

yes, I can spend hours on it then open it literally a few hours later or a few days later and I've lost all that work.

I say try it for a short while with the search without tagging and see how it goes.

 

[littlekiwi]

I say try it for a short while with the search without tagging and see how it goes.

That's kind of what I have been doing up until now....or more to the point just browsing my stash going "I'm sure I have something that will work" over and over again so I am wanting just that next level of organization. It may be as simple as a list particularly of themed kits as I feel I either use the same ones over and over again and/or forget what I already own so buy more!

 

[tjscraps]

That's kind of what I have been doing up until now....or more to the point just browsing my stash going "I'm sure I have something that will work" over and over again so I am wanting just that next level of organization. It may be as simple as a list particularly of themed kits as I feel I either use the same ones over and over again and/or forget what I already own so buy more!

Could you try organizing by theme instead of by designer? Like inside your TLP folder then have 'Baby' or 'Spring' or 'Summer', etc? I'm not sure how it works in Windows if you can change the folder image - it's what I do on my Mac. Then when I open up the theme folder I see the previews naturally: (I add z- in front of kits I've already used to make them move down to the bottom of the folder)

 

[littlekiwi]

@tjscraps that could be an option though maybe not right now given I'm a guest polly atm. I just feel though for my brain that has always done store>designer folders then used ACDSee for any further organizing, it could just end up one big mess that doesn't work with my brain.

 

[tjscraps]

@tjscraps that could be an option though maybe not right now given I'm a guest polly atm. I just feel though for my brain that has always done store>designer folders then used ACDSee for any further organizing, it could just end up one big mess that doesn't work with my brain.

Totally get it. It took me awhile to wrap my head around organizing like that too. On my Mac I can tag by store too (see the green dots above?), but that's pretty much all I tag - that, and the year I acquired it. Then I just sort by theme - and within the folder I can limit by that theme, if I'm doing a challenge or MOC or something and need things by a specific store.

 

[HavaDrPepper]

Totally get it. It took me awhile to wrap my head around organizing like that too. On my Mac I can tag by store too (see the green dots above?), but that's pretty much all I tag - that, and the year I acquired it. Then I just sort by theme - and within the folder I can limit by that theme, if I'm doing a challenge or MOC or something and need things by a specific store.

The one issue I see with doing that is when a designer leaves one store to go to another. I mean a designer here left just this month to go to another store. If I had any of her products, by having the folders by designer, I could just move her folder to the other store folder since I do shop there as well. If it is all intermixed...

 

[tjscraps]

The one issue I see with doing that is when a designer leaves one store to go to another. I mean a designer here left just this month to go to another store. If I had any of her products, by having the folders by designer, I could just move her folder to the other store folder since I do shop there as well. If it is all intermixed...

I just have to search her name, and I tag TLP (can do it all together), and tag the new store. The search in Finder works really good that way!

 

[HavaDrPepper]

I just have to search her name, and I tag TLP (can do it all together), and tag the new store. The search in Finder works really good that way!

I'm a kit scrapper so your way is not good for me! And, I don't do that deep of tagging. I resisted any tagging until the last couple of years. I tried tagging parts of kits and it was so overwhelming that I just went to tagging the preview for the kit.

I still use Picasa as well so if I do want say a "push pin", I can search for it and find one. Very rare that I do this though.

 

[Cath_]

doesn't acdc have a file in program data, or your system roaming, etc files, that you could duplicate on occasion, renaming bu to _db file whatever so if you lose db file info, your not back square 1