I was wondering if anyone has ever did a sorting of their clipart CD files and save to HardDrive the ones that they feel they would use and avoiding the 90 percent crap that they don't/won't use. I spend way too much time searching for choice characters that I "once saw" and sometimes never see again. It would take some time up front, but save a lot of time along with a lot of grief over the next years. I would start by circling the choice clips in all my catalogs, then set up a new "logical to me" cataloging system.
A little plug for Mike Jackson's Golden Era CDs.......They are fabulous, and I recieved all of them for Christmas. These you certainly wouldn't have to cull... cheers, Bronzeo of the internet
[ January 01, 2003, 08:29 AM: Message edited by: bronzeo ]
Posted by Golden (Member # 164) on :
Hi Jack, Thanks for the (unsolicited) plug! Happy to hear you like them. Have a great year, Mike Jackson Golden Era Studios
Posted by Bob Stephens (Member # 858) on :
One thing I have done and continue to do when I have free time is fine tune my clipart catagories. I put every folder of every CD's contents under the one !clipart parent folder. I then will use the search for files and search for lets say, stars...Once I found all the star files from every CD I place them all into one new folder called stars....I do this each time Im looking for something specific...Im better organizing all my libraries. Its helped me work faster.
Posted by BRIAN CAISSIE (Member # 2673) on :
Hey Jack, I have run into the same problem. I was thinking about getting a usb hard drive for about $115.00, USB Hard Drive and loading it up with all of the cd's I have. As I am looking for something, I rename them anyways, so I figured I could just run a simple search, on that drive. Just an idea, hope to do it soon myself. Good Luck!! Brian
Posted by Mark Smith (Member # 298) on :
I have a folder called "Library" on my network with all my fonts and clipart in it. It's on our server's HD which is like the ocean, so that's no problem. I LOVE this situation.
As for sorting out the good clipart from the bad, I think it would be easier to copy them to a folder when you use them or see that you like them. Sitting and going through it all would be really daunting.
