I found this little chameleon at the New Port Aquarium a few years ago. That’s how it works
\nfor a lot of things for me. Something catches my eye. I can’t help but look at it. I marvel at some
\nfeature that God has put within an animal, and I snap a picture. Years later, I have an idea for
\nan art piece, or a book, and I pull out my pictures that I remember taking. Sometimes a good
\nmemory is bad….you remember how people treat you, and you remember what people
\nsay; however, when indexing images, a good memory is helpful.<\/p>\n
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Indexing images can be overwhelming when you have a lot. I use Adobe Bridge. This program
\nallows me to place keywords within the image, and I can then pull up those images. I also have
\nthe ability to make “smart sets” where I am able to pull all the pictures on a certain subject and
\nthen place them into a specific folder. It is a handy resource…until it fails.<\/p>\n
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In the last year, I have had major problems with my computer. Windows encountered a major error,
\nand after numerous sessions with a Microsoft technician, they informed me my hard drive needed
\nto be reformatted. At this time, I hadn’t thought about backing up Bridge, which meant I had
\nto reindex everything.<\/p>\n
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A few months later, I realized my computer hard drive was just about full (2 T), so I pulled everything
\noff to a new hard drive. I had backed up Bridge…but, I didn’t realize the links Bridge created to those
\nfiles wouldn’t work because I was on a hard drive outside of the C drive. This meant I had to
\nreindex everything again.<\/p>\n
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It was enough to make me want to weep.<\/p>\n
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Like many things in life, organization is key to getting stuff accomplished in a timely fashion. Yet,
\ncomputer organization can be more involved than simple paper organization when something
\ngoes wrong.<\/p>\n
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