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sublimeguide

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Dec 12, 2010
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Hi there!
I have a ton of photos on my iPad 3rd gen. Most of it I transferred when I restored it from a backup from my 1t generation one. Around 2000 photos is too damn much. A lot of them are pics saved from the web via safari, others are wallpaper and I have some photos from the camera of the iPad 3.
I find this problematic though, that all the pictures are being saved to the camera roll, no matter if they were downloaded, they are screenshot or a actually part of the camera.
I would find it much more intuitive if apple made it in a way, that when you make a screenshot, the image is automatically added to an album names "Screenshots" and the saves from the web or in wallpaper apps to be in their "appropriate" destinations-albums.
So I decided to clean around my photos app's contents but this weeding out is a dreadful task and takes too much time. A lot of the pics are nice, funny and I would like to keep them but I realize that the more pictures I "collect" the less I will actually see them again and enjoy... Most of the pictures I haven't opened in months and there are some that I stores and never would have searched for them again if it weren't for this "housecleaning". My question is this:
Can I organize my photos more easily and efficiently without wasting so much time? (I doubt it that there is p, but still it's worth asking)
Because I got the idea of transferring almost all of the photos through photosync and store them on my Mac computer, but I also know that if I do that the filenames wont be intuitive for the content of the photos and it won't encourage me to look at them more and essentially I'll be just transferring the mess to another device. That not optical as I'm looking for a way to either efficiently clean up or organize...

Thank you!
 
Here's how my albums are organized.

YEAR MONTH EVENT

Example -
2013 Misc Singapore
2013 Feb Chinese New Year
and so on ..

Not only does it help organize but also keep them alphabetical in listings ;)

Of course you can also use date tags in the files to split them into events in iPhoto ...
 
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