kendersplace
15th of April 2003 (Tue), 04:53
I have started using PS Album to archive my images. It seems it will do what I need it to, but I'm having a real problem that MUST have some solution to it....
I currently have about 8000 images, which are already sorted into a directory and label scheme. This directory tree and all my original images are on a network drive share (not my local workstation).
I try to get PS Album to "go fetch" and find all my files. I show it the directory tree, and it commenses to fetching. Problem is, it is actually making COPIES of EVERY file, and dumping them ALL, into the single directory I have set as my "PS Album Program Files Directory" in the "Options" menu. Note that it is not dumping thumbs, but rather, all the original files and file copies including raw, jpg, and photoshop files, along with their associated large file sizes.
This causes a few huge problems....
1. Duplicates of every image??
2. Space and time.
3. It throws away my directory tree that I spent a LOT of time sorting
4. That's a lot-O files in one directory! Near 10,000 files, windows FAT32 file system starts to die.
Question is... How can I get PS Album to just go LOOK at the remote files, extract the EXIF info, note where they are on the drive, possibly copy a small thumb to the local directory for off line searching, and leave it at that? I've been digging in this software for 2 days now and I can't find anything that will have it do this.
What would also work is if I could tell PS Album to treat the remote drive as "removable media" and catalog it's contents the same way it would catalog a CD-Rom I just inserted.
These seem like such obvious problems with obvious answers, but I'm stumped ???
Thanks,
Kevin
I currently have about 8000 images, which are already sorted into a directory and label scheme. This directory tree and all my original images are on a network drive share (not my local workstation).
I try to get PS Album to "go fetch" and find all my files. I show it the directory tree, and it commenses to fetching. Problem is, it is actually making COPIES of EVERY file, and dumping them ALL, into the single directory I have set as my "PS Album Program Files Directory" in the "Options" menu. Note that it is not dumping thumbs, but rather, all the original files and file copies including raw, jpg, and photoshop files, along with their associated large file sizes.
This causes a few huge problems....
1. Duplicates of every image??
2. Space and time.
3. It throws away my directory tree that I spent a LOT of time sorting
4. That's a lot-O files in one directory! Near 10,000 files, windows FAT32 file system starts to die.
Question is... How can I get PS Album to just go LOOK at the remote files, extract the EXIF info, note where they are on the drive, possibly copy a small thumb to the local directory for off line searching, and leave it at that? I've been digging in this software for 2 days now and I can't find anything that will have it do this.
What would also work is if I could tell PS Album to treat the remote drive as "removable media" and catalog it's contents the same way it would catalog a CD-Rom I just inserted.
These seem like such obvious problems with obvious answers, but I'm stumped ???
Thanks,
Kevin