Jack -
I would highly, HIGHLY reccommend downloading a free program called Picasa:
http://picasa.google.com/index.html
This program has a very nice elegant interface between thumbnails to
full size picture, and will automatically find all the pictures on
your hard drive. It should make searching through your archive a
pleasure. With the thumbnails all in easy & quick view, you probably
won't need to organize your picture much more than you already have,
because you will see it all in front of you.
I would organize them first into folders according to the area of the
car as you already have before installing picasa.
Picasa is a really nice program and it also has a very cool email
picture feature.
Best Regards,
Alan
'53 BN1 '64 BJ8
On 7/12/05, Ph.J.Aeckerlin <j.aeckerlin@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> Friends,
> I've been collecting pictures of BJ8's in all stages of demolition and
> (re)construction in order to have guidelines when I start assembling the
> car. (I didn't take it apart myself, bought it in approx. 10,000
> pieces). I installed an old stand-alone PC in my garage with the idea of
> calling up a picture of a detail as soon as I hesitate. I'm afraid I
> have some 300 to 400 pictures now and I try to organize them one way or
> another so that I don't spend valuable hours trying to find that
> specific picture of which I'm sure I've seen it before somewhere but where?
> Hence this request: I hope I'm not the only one who tries/tried to
> streamline his picture collection but how have you done it? At present
> I've started grouping the pictures in accordance with their location:
> Engine room, Wheels/suspension, Underside, Dashboard, Boot , Chassis,
> Interior and their names now start with the capital E, or W, or U etc.
> But sometimes this still creates too large groups. Any better ideas out
> there?
> TIA
> Jack Aeckerlin, The Netherlands
> 1964 BJ8 29432
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