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10-20-2007, 09:06 PM
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How do you organize your stash??
I am completely frustrated! I cannot figure out how to organize this massive amount of kits that I have collected. I had bought Digital ScrapRoom awhile ago and thought it was so cool how I could sort everything so when I wanted frames, they would be right there. I really thought I have found the answer with this program...
However, I ended up having major problems. I moved everything over to an EHD, so that completely wiped out all of the organizing I previously had done. I redid a bunch of it, but now that I have more stuff it is just really slow. Just to look through the ribbons that I have would take about 5 minutes. Lately I have just been sticking to one kit to do my layouts because I just don't want to deal with it. Anyway, I was going to keep going with the organizing tonight, but I thought I should ask to see if there was something else I could try that would be better than this. I would appreciate any ideas on how to get things organized! Thanks in advance!
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10-21-2007, 12:58 AM
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I don't have an answer for you as I am in the same dilemma. I am going to to the ACDsee thing once I get up and running again and have photos straightened out. I am going to use one of ACDsee's templates for a styling method.
I do like to use a kit, too, because it takes forever to look for things.
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10-21-2007, 09:47 AM
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I had all of mine organized by frames, colors of paper, ribbons etc. And I regret organizing that way so I went back to each designer and keeping all of their work together and I like it this way much better. That way the entire layout can coordinate without me digging through each and every folder for hours. That is just my suggestion...
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10-22-2007, 02:52 AM
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Just like Gwen, everything is organized by website/designer. Most of the time, I don't do mixes, I just use one page kit at a time.
I had started to organize each kit with subfolders names "ribbons - name of the kit - designer - website", "papers - name of the kit - designer - website". This was useful with picasa (from google) which allows you to view folders by name (I could see all papers at once), but that's a lot of work, I can't view all the items of one kit, and it doesn't work well on linux!
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10-22-2007, 07:45 AM
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I have everything organized by website and then by kit (I haven't gotten as organized as by designer yet) within the website. I'm seriously thinking of buying ACDSee, though, so that I can keep the current organization but add the ability to categorize all the kit previews. That way, I could quickly "flip" through all the previews to see exactly what I had and wanted to use.
As it is right now, I keep forgetting that I have some things--especially if they're from sites I rarely visit/buy from.
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10-22-2007, 10:30 AM
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I'm a geek - I wrote my own program so I could organize by all kinds of tags (designers, sites, kit types, etc) I know I could have bought ACDSee, but I wanted to try my own, and I added a credit-writing module to help me with all my credits - I'm always combining things from all kinds of kits and posting credits can sometimes be a pain!
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10-22-2007, 10:38 AM
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10-22-2007, 12:05 PM
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Kathy---yes, ACDSee does both kits and individual elements. When I had the trial, I started out by organizing the individual pieces, but quickly realized that I would have helped myself more if I started with the kits and then went back to the pieces after all the kits were catalogued.
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10-22-2007, 03:12 PM
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I have a folder for every designer and the kits are subfolders in their folder. I have just gotten AcdSee and I'm in the process of organizing with it. It is taking a very long time because of the amount of my digi stash, but I know I will be happy once I get it all done.
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