PSE & Organizing

A month ago I changed laptops and so far I have not got started on reorganizing my stash - I have 19.5gb of unzipped files and 74 folders of zipped goodies on my desktop. I have only got the option of using PSE organizer so am needing some good hints or tips as to how to organize well because I am not able to scrap at all with this mess. I can spend hours trying to organize and not seem to get very much achieved. Last time I did the whole reorganizing thing it took me months to get it all finished.

Before I had ACDSee I did organize with my PSE 3 organizer and what I did was (just a sec...let me go open it up...it's been awhile ) OK when I organized with PSE I was primarily a kits scrapper so I would only "tag" the preview of kits, element packs and alphas!!! Under the people category I listed Boy and Girl and then dragged any kit that pertained to those under them. under the events category I listed stuff like Summer, Spring, Fall, Winter, Christmas, Thanksgiving ect..... Then under the Other's category I listed the elements and some of my categories were like ribbon, staple, tag, flower, heart ect... I also had an alpha's category under that.

I have heard of people using the organizer just like ACDSee and "tagging" individual elements and papers but my would run really really slow with just "tagging" the preview of a kit.

So I would say that if you have a "nice" (fast and lots of RAM) computer you would probably be able to "tag" each individual item!!!

Good luck......it's a daunting task to organize in any method!!!

I have organized with PSE's organizer before, and tagged each item. It was slow though, but I didn't have a really great computer and maybe (hopefully) it's gotten better since PSE3!

I also have PSE and have never used the organizer for my files, only my photos. I create new folders in my ps and tag them kits, elements, alphas, templates & albums. So when I unzip them I put them in the appropriate folder.