# How do you organize your (digital) photos?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-organize-your-digital-photos/567867>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 16, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-organize-your-digital-photos/567867 "2011-01-16T21:43:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-organize-your-digital-photos/567867/21 "2011-01-21T15:12:23Z")

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I just let iPhoto do it. I use Faces and Events as well as keywords. I usually start a new Library every year. I keep archival copies of each year on a separate hard drive and backup each one to DVDs.

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**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-organize-your-digital-photos/567867/22 "2011-01-21T15:24:20Z")

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I tend to do it by “roll”. Whenever I download from a card, it gets a name like “Spring, 2011.” If there was a special subject, it might get a heading like “Snowy Owl, March 2010”. But it’s not a great system if you want to find something in a hurry. And I’m really bad at weeding out the bad pictures and keeping stuff to a manageable size.

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