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Creating a Finder-based system for organizing

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Creating a Finder-based system for organizing

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- Finder-based systems are usually for photographers who are using the referenced master approach, in other words the masters live somewhere else not inside the catalog itself, and for photographers who prefer to have a bit more control over how their images are organized, and they tend to live on external drives like this. So, what exactly does a finder-based system look like? Well, it's your images organized into folders that you label yourself, (laughs) okay, not by a database from an application. So let's take a look at what the might look like. Here's a sample. I start with a Masters folder, so this has everything in it, and it's usually on a hard drive somewhere, and then within it I put directories by year, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. Within that, I have months, so January 2020, so on and so forth. The reason why I do that is because it works with my brain. I think in terms of time, so I know I went to Hawaii in…

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