How do you organize your photos on your computer?

[starwood]

Do you organize by date, topic, park visited.... I'm determined to be able to organize all of my photos so I can find what I'm looking for. I can tag them in windows gallery but there are just so many of them.

 

[mikelan6]

I organize them my date. I have a folder for each year and within that folder, another folder for each trip. Within THAT folder, I choose the best photos, which I publish on Facebook or on Photobucket, etc.

 

[Yvet]

We organize them by event.

Each vacation gets his own folder and also each event gets his own folder.
In those folders we have seperate folders for the different moments.

Like for our vacation this April we have a folder April 2011 then subfolders for before ABD, the ABD trip, after ABD and the WDW part.
Then in the before ABD folder we have again subfolders for each date.

For an event like a meeting we have just a folder for that event and then all the photos.
But for an event like a birth then the folder gets the name of the person born and then a subfolder (with the date) for each time there are made photos.

We store the photos on 3 different places.
The computer and also on 2 different external harddisks.

 

[safetymom]

You should organize them by the way that makes sense to you. I name mine by the event or park that I visit and the date. That way I can find them. That way may not make sense for you but organize it so you can find the pictures easily when you need them.

 

[sau418]

I do by year, then month, then date or event. But that system may not work for everyone.