Paths and staying organized?

[busynut]

Hi all,
Several problems with my hosting service caused delays in being able to install EE until now - but I've just installed it and everything went well. I'm uploading some pics and was about to edit the paths when I realized I may have a problem in how I've organized myself.

My paths to the pics currently look like this:

mydomain.com/ee/albums/scenery/big
mydomain.com/ee/albums/scenery/thumb
mydomain.com/ee/albums/scenery/microthumb

mydomain.com/ee/albums/family/big
mydomain.com/ee/albums/family/thumb
mydomain.com/ee/albums/family/microthumb

However when I went into the paths editor the default settings there already made me wonder if I really can do what I intended... meaning the default paths lead me to wonder if I can separate my pics into sub-folders? Can I do it as outlined above, or should I do this:

mydomain.com/ee/albums/thumb/scenery
mydomain.com/ee/albums/thumb/family
mydomain.com/ee/albums/microthumb/scenery
mydomain.com/ee/albums/microthumb/family
... and so on...

OR must I lump all thumbs into one huge folder?

I'm doing my best to stay organized and I really hope I can use sub-folders to do that.
Many thanks for any assistance!
Bev

P.S. The installation went incredibly fast I must say EE has been the smoothest installation I've ever experienced. Now I'm hoping how to learn to use it well.

[busynut]

Nevermind to anyone who might have been ready to reply....

it appears I can keep separate folders for each exhibit pictures by editing the size paths - I still don't know if I am doing this correctly but so far what I am doing seems to be working.

On another subject, I did not want to allow visitors to link to my photos or the individual exhibits, so I commented out those links in the appropriate php scripts. I hope that's okay to do.

[Pekka]

Each exhibition has its own microthumb and thumb path selections, but only _one each_ for each exhibition.

So, you can distribute thumbs by having each exhibition has its own, or you can use just one path for all. Only "rule" is that the thumb and microthumb folders must be in the same server EE is on.

Size paths can be anywhere in internet and you can have any amount of them. Only "rule" is that if you add it to a photo, it must contain a file with same filename as the photo. There is an analyzer utility in path editor to check that all are "connected".

On another subject, I did not want to allow visitors to link to my photos or the individual exhibits, so I commented out those links in the appropriate php scripts. I hope that's okay to do.

Of course.