File Organization?

To those organizational freaks with huge pic collections: how do you keep it all organized? Do you just have tons of folders? How do you account for pics that fall into multiple categories? Do you have a program that can apply multiple tags to each pic, and you then browse by tag? What do you do with the file names?

bump for interest



import os,shutil

def main():
    allFiles=dict()
    for filename in os.listdir('.'):
        if os.path.isfile(filename):
            ind=filename.rfind('.')

           
            if ind==-1:
                continue

            extension=filename[ind+1:]
            theFile=filename[:ind]

            #skip hidden files

            if len(theFile)<1:
                continue

            if not extension in allFiles:
                allFiles[extension] =[]

            allFiles[extension].append(theFile)

    for ext in allFiles:
        print 'Creating', ext, 'folder.'
        os.mkdir(ext)
        for file in allFiles[ext]:
            shutil.move("{0}.{1}".format(file,ext), ext)

if __name__== '__main__':
                        main()

Thank me later

My OS allows for tagging of files, and searching by tags.

ryankelly_96@hotmail.com
have at it
YOU ALL DESERVE TO DIE YOU NERDS

How does the file tagging in Windows 7 fare? Is there a limit to the number of tags you can apply to any one file? Are there improvements to this style of file organization in the works for Windows 8? Are tags / labels the future of file organization?

I can't be bothered to tag up thousands of shit.