>  >> Although there are a few programs available that will organise
>your images,
>>>  or claim to do so, most become excessively slow and unmanageable when you
>>>  handle 1000's of images. Also, there is the risk of the program becoming
>>>  outdated, the company producing it going into receivership etc.
>>>  The Windows explorer i.e. your ordinary file manager is the most foolproof
>>>  way of organising your images, when you make folders by family, and then
>>>  name the files after the entire species name. You can consider putting the
>>>  species name first, followed by the generic name, in any case, the find
>  >> function will take care of any lost species as already described.

Macintoshes can find any file by name, so image files, if named by
genus/species, are easily found.

I organize my images by folder of type of specimen (eg fossil NZ
bivalves or a particular dredgehaul), and each image is genus/species.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
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Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh & VW/Toyota van nut
I want your sinistral gastropods!
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