Happily, there are free programs that will do the sorting and filing for you. The options include 35mm focal length, camera maker and model, lens maker and model, light source, subject, and many more. After that, right-click in the Windows Explorer menu bar (eg next to Name) and add the columns you want. Go to the Customize tab where it asks: “What kind of folder do you want?” Choose “Pictures” from the drop-down menu and make it apply to all the subfolders. To do this, right-click on the folder name and select Properties. You can make this information visible in Windows Explorer. Your PC can sort photos by the date they were taken, because the date is recorded in Exif (Exchangeable image file format) tags inside the image. It’s reasonable to have from 50 to 250 photos in each folder, but 500 to 1,000 is too many.
Most people should have one folder per month (2014-03 etc). If you’re a pro and take tons of photos, you might have a different folder for each day. My Canon G15, for example, adds the month to the folder number: 123_09, 124_10 and so on. In fact, your digital camera may already do this for you.
But the best option for most people is to store them by the date on which they were taken. If you specialise in photographing a limited range of topics, you might want to organise them by subject. The final decision depends partly on what sort of photo collection you have. Getting them all under one roof – or into one file directory – is relatively simple, once you have decided how to organise that directory.
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