Add ability to sort folders in the library by date (Like Picasa has)

Sometimes I just want to find a specific folder and edit pictures in it. The problem is, you don't always remember what you named that folder you need. By allowing the folders to be sorted by date, it's usually a lot easier to find the folder because you know about when it was.

Sounds like you should organise all your folders by date order and give them a descriptive name, That way you can find things far more easily. Then you should keyword the pics so you can find within entrire library.
here's a fictitious set of folders to demonstrate.
2008/
2008-01-January/
2008-01-29 Gardening
2008-01-29 Night Out
2008-01-31 Trip to Zoo
2008-02-Febuary/
2008-02-01 Dog's birthday
2008-02-03 Cat's Birthday
2008-02-03 Race Meet
This structure as shown above is also good in that it will survive different programmes and even different OSes. Are you going to rely on Adobe, let along LR being around in 30yrs time? One should never let a programme dictate your fundamental filing structure - iPhoto, iTunes yuck, messy.
I also try and separate out differing shoots from each day as I'm hardly likely to want to look through gardening and night out shots together and it also speeds up individual folder rendering.
This specific structure is designed so it will always correctly arrange by date, do this and your problem is solved as LR simply imports your folder structure.
I've used this for a long time now and it's very robust.
Though
2008 - 02 - 17
also works as does
2008_02_17
just be consistent with what ever suits you.
I prefer using dashes to underscores, more readable and easier to type and I think this method
20080117
is stupid/useless [unless you are a computer].
I use Bridge to import from Cards [LR sucks at importing as it doesn't copy all file types] and you can set Bridge to place images in folders by date shot automatically.

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[svn] 3025: Add libs/player/ 10 directory to the library path in the team apps flex-config.xml file.

Revision: 3025
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-08-28 11:24:42 -0700 (Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
Log Message:
Add libs/player/10 directory to the library path in the team apps flex-config.xml file. This is to matche what's in the flex-config.xml file that comes with the Flex SDK.
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Change the call to mxmlc in the compile-swf target in the flexunit build script to set the target player version to 10.0.0.
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blazeds/trunk/apps/team/WEB-INF/flex/flex-config.xml
blazeds/trunk/qa/apps/qa-regress/testsuites/flexunit/build.xml
blazeds/trunk/qa/features/full.properties
blazeds/trunk/qa/features/httpService.properties
blazeds/trunk/qa/resources/config/flex-config.xml
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blazeds/trunk/qa/features/nist.properties
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Revision: 3025
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-08-28 11:24:42 -0700 (Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
Log Message:
Add libs/player/10 directory to the library path in the team apps flex-config.xml file. This is to matche what's in the flex-config.xml file that comes with the Flex SDK.
Add libs/player directory to the library path of the flex-config.xml file that is shared by the qa-manaul and qa-regress webapps. This is to match what's in the flex-config.xml file that comes with the sdk.
Change the call to mxmlc in the compile-swf target in the flexunit build script to set the target player version to 10.0.0.
Remove web services and http service tests that were removed by Bill from qa feature.properties files otherwise the automated test frameworks will try to run these tests and blow up.
Modified Paths:
blazeds/trunk/apps/team/WEB-INF/flex/flex-config.xml
blazeds/trunk/qa/apps/qa-regress/testsuites/flexunit/build.xml
blazeds/trunk/qa/features/full.properties
blazeds/trunk/qa/features/httpService.properties
blazeds/trunk/qa/resources/config/flex-config.xml
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No folders in the library?

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The answer is no. But you may see this feature in the next release.
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Lightroom crashes when I scroll quickly through the folders in the library module

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Has adobe adopted the compound math feature like quark has in its interface.

I am currently working with CS3. Has adobe adopted the compound math feature like quark has in its interface.
For instance If I want to duplicate an item 29/6" vertically but I know that that step should be 1/8" short, in quark I can type 29/6-.125, or 29/6-1/8. Either method will give me 4.708333. Same issue when I just want to draw a box a specific size minus or plus 15/64 or an inch. Adobe forces me to look up the decimal equivalent before I enter it or I will get the message: "INVALID NUMERIC VALUE"
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Seriously Bob, Seriously. Quark has had this feature for 20+ years.
Quick, do the following, draw a box or a line or anything.
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There is nothing wrong with my attitude, this is a feature that I use daily in my work and having indd and ill require me to look up decimal equivalents of inch fractions is not productive.
If my priorities do not match your priorities why does that make mine a total mess?
Oooh Gotchew on that one. Gotchew on that one. You have no answer for that.
"Hard to believe all the cool stuff you still can't do with Quark, too."
I don't like one app over another I use both daily but indd seems more stable. If you want to argue Toyota vs Chevy, go ahead. I think one software company should look at competing products and implement functionally positive features in their own.
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Scott Martin
www.on-sight.com

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Looks as though the SortPlaces add-on should be able to do it.
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I am aware that my code organization and design skills are not very good. I am a fan of basic assembly and low-level hardware languages for the most part.
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It would be great if Adobe added the ability to create folders, that way we can organize our forms!

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If you are requesting to add the feature under Microsoft Remote Desktop Client for MAC\IOS then I can say that already forwarded this request to product group for further research and update. And if not then check the comment for “Randomtechguy”.
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Hi All,
Being a photographer, I recently jumped from my Dell XPS to the latest MacBook Pro and am still new on the use of Aperture.
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I don't have a functional disk drive on my laptop, but I have the program backed up in Time Machine.
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They're pretty much all over the place. I can only list for Office 2011.
These are all folders. Just grab them and everything within.
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~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/
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com.microsoft.desktop.updater.plist
com.microsoft.DocumentConnection.plist
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com.microsoft.outlook.database_daemon.plist
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com.microsoft.removeoffice.plist
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Is there a way to rename a folder that contains iTunes tracks and not have iTunes lose the files or to tell the iTunes Library that the folder name has changed?

I do a fair amount of moving of files on my computer and don't have many problems with itunes losing locations. While this isn't telling you how to solve your problem. I can say I don't have problems and end up with the same result, so this is purely empirical evidence. I almost always have itunes open when I move my files from folder to folder. I am almost always moving files to folders with different names rather than editing the names of existing folders.

HT1386 i tunes is installed in c drive and the free disk space is less than 1.5gb, i want to load the folders to the library and sync it to my ipod classic

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Message was edited by: epeneth

Try either posting in the iPod Classic forum or the iTunes forum. This is the iPod touch forum.

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