First, I’ve split some months into separate events. I’ve been manually adding a bit more organization in two ways. Further Organization and Editing on the Mac Give how rock solid Dropbox is and how many iOS apps support it, I think that’s a great deal. My photos currently take up about 20GB, and Dropbox charges $99 per 100GB. What a breath of fresh air compared to Apple’s Photo Stream! That means I need do absolutely nothing after I click my iPhone’s shutter button for my photos to be organized and accessible (by me) forever in the cloud. I also followed his lead and created a Hazel rule to move files from the Camera Uploads folder (where Dropbox puts my just-taken photos and videos) into my new Photos hierarchy. The process created a set of year folders, and in each of those, a set of month folders that contain all my photos named and sorted by date. My first step was to do what Federico Vittici at MacStories did through a combination of PhoShare and Hazel. Any new system that involves access from multiple different devices is going to require getting your photos out of iPhoto’s black box. IPhoto is fundamentally an application for doing light editing and organization of photos on a single computer. My new system isn’t perfect, but it’s pretty good and I think it’s a solid foundation for the future. The short story is that all my photos now live on Dropbox in a nice hieararchical folder structure where I can browse and share them from any of my computers or iOS devices. I am extremely happy to report some actual forward progress in this episode of My Photo Management Quest. (Note: You might want to read my other posts about photo management for context first.)

Dropbox help camera uploads