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Copy Card to Folder and subfolder by date options

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There are 4 'subfolder by date' options in Copy Card to Folder. I may be an outlier, but, after trying different systems, I settled on yyyy\mm scheme (i.e. there is a folder for each year, within which there are folders for each month where the files are stored).

The existing option: yyyy\mm\dd is close to what I use, but I find it of too fine granularity - in some months I have too many day subfolders to handle easily.

Would it be possible to add yyyy\mm option as well?
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Re: Copy Card to Folder and subfolder by date options

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A question loosely related to the copying cards: culling images either during the process or as the next step.

I have to admit that I have always had a problem with it (I know that there are specialised DAM programmes and that PWP doesn't aspire to be one of them). I never warmed up to the any additional image management software, I guess I found them too complex and/or didn't want to make a commitment. I do my cullings in combination of FastStone, a duplicate finder (to delete the corresponding RAW of JPGs that I culled) and PWP to look at some images in more detail, but this is not ideal.

On the surface, my needs for culling are simple (and it seems that PWP8 has already most of the components to be able to do that):
- view and quickly zoom in and out an image, then mark it for deletion/keep
- compare at least 2 images (just like in Compare transformation) and mark one or more for deletion/keep
- associate JPG and RAW files with the same names for deletion/keep as a pair

I'm not sure if this is something that Jonathan would like to consider - I just remember in PWP7 there was an attempt to build something like this within a Play transformation - but having a relatively simple option to cull images within the PWP could potentially be quite useful, I think.
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Re: Copy Card to Folder and subfolder by date options

Post by jsachs »

I added the yyyy\mm by date option for the next release.

I have noted your request for a culling feature for possible inclusion in a future release.
Jonathan Sachs
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