Media Assset Management

Over the years I have used Aperture, Picasa and the Apple Photos Apps. In that time they have organised my files chronologically, automatically, as soon as I took pictures, in some cases.

What They Do

Aperture was well behaved. It would organise photos by year, by month and by day, so it’s easy to migrate a library from drive A to drive B. Apple Photos on the other hand makes a pig’s breakfast. It renames the files with a chaotically huge number, and then moves files into folders from 0-9 and then from A to F or some similar chaotic mess.

Imagine for a second that you have six hard drives filled with Data. Some are four terabytes. Others are one terabyte each, and you’ve already sorted personal videos and photos from other media files. Each drive is moved to its own folder

Two Terabyte Seagate has gone from being a drive to a folder. Bob 2017 has also become a folder, rather than a drive. Samantha 2018 is also a volume, rather than a drive. There is a reason for congregating the media from smaller files to a large volume and that is speed.