Keeping a tidy and efficient file tree of all your photographs can get complex and time consuming all too fast. I have been going back and updated my portfolio with some photographs of events I have photographed. They were all edited using a combination on Nikon Capture NX2, Photoshop CS4, Nik plugins Dfine and Color Efex Pro.

I have been working with a tool free from Microsoft that helps synchronize two folders or directories. You can have it delete, move, and add or just move and add. It is simple and straight forward. Warming up to it real fast. The tool is called Sync Toy 2.0 and was recommended to me from my good friend Gary C. way back when. Finally up and using it. Sync Toy will allow me to get all my editing done and then with a click of a button send them all to their respective back up folders of back up folders. For the price of free I’m Sold!

You can see here in this screen shot what will unfold. After creating the action by picking your origin folder and destination folder you are presented with this screen. It lists the actions you have created on the left to avoid constant redoing of the action and for quick retrieval. Also it shows you your sync toy action type and what is going to be done to your folder pair. These options can still be edited after the sync so you don’t have to start all over (even though it doesn’t take much to redo.) You can even schedule this to be done on a regular basis by searching the help files. The help files will give you step by step instructions. I don’t like automatic things too much. One huge plus about this program is that anything deleted goes into the recycle bin and is not permanently erased. So any damage can be repaired. Phew!

Here is a quick snapshot of the preview screen. You also get to see this with a status bar as it is performed. So no action goes unnoticed, hah. I highly recommend creating an A & B folder on your desktop and running a sample test. You wouldn’t want a massive headache playing clean up for several hours. Thankfully of which hasn’t happened yet! I’m watching you Murphy’s [law].