Most people have a couple files here, a couple files there. I set out a couple years back to collect a large asset collection that runs the gamut, because I knew the faster access and more variety of stuff I had would only make for better efficiency.
However, when a collection of work spans 150gbs, 205,264 files in 10,790 folders.. you start to realize a better organizational structure is needed. This collection doesn’t include any music, movies, personal files, etc.. we are talking pretty much images, illustrations, vector art, fonts and everything in between.
So I’ve begun to restructure and prune, already deleting 30gbs of unneeded stuff last night and moving folders into a larger tiered folder structure.
I just thought in talking about scope and seriousness of design when I talk about how I have assets of royalty free and licensed works, I dont mean one CD full of clipart, I mean quality and LOTS of it.
This however is where the modern Operating System structure fails. PC’s and Macs are both limited by a flat directory structure that limits how a file can be understood by the system, OS X and Vista have made strides in this area over the last 2 years.. however where they fail is most only cover limited image formats.
Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to split up the instance of a file, regardless of type, tag it for its various parts, like notating an image in flickr, or facebook, and that instance of the file loads or you can load the whole file. Say for example I have a layer named ‘balloons’ in a composition of a website, why can’t that show up in a contextual search for balloons?
Also, since when can a computer not do basic image analysis and tagging on its own. Things like, aspect ratio, color temperature, colors used, contrast, the list of variables of easily accessible data goes on and on, yet most management software on has basic understanding of file type, aspect ratio and other meta data.
Ok so it will take it some time to index all the files.. fine.. store it in a database so I can modify that rather than modify the existing meta data making the file larger, or in some cases the file can’t store meta data.. so what, I can’t do anything to it? Thanks, thanks a lot.
