A Simple Process for Downloading and Backing Up Digital Scrapbooking Files

First things first - your workflow for downloading and unzipping your scrapbooking supplies is up to you!

But since I've been doing this for nearly 8 years, I've refined and streamlined my process and I want share it with you today.

So here's how I download, unzip and back up my supplies:

1. Download zips into my Downloads folder
2. Unzip them using UnzipThemAll into my Digi folder
3. Leave the folders as is! Save time and fuss and just use PSE to manage them.
4. Delete all the extra folders for the Macs that I don't need (.dstore files and _MACOS folders)
5. Move the Zip files to a folder called Zip files, just in case I need them again
6. I keep my zip files for a while, then use a Google calendar reminder to delete the old ones every few months
7. Supplies are automatically backed up at Crashplan - along with all my files.

I try to keep it simple, so that I don't use up all my scrappy time managing supplies.

I use Photoshop Elements to manage the supplies and add any tags or do advanced searching, so my process is quite quick! Those 7 steps really only take me a minute or two.

I have a calendar reminders to unzip my supplies at the start of each month. I'm a subscriber to digital product subscriptions at Scrapaneers so I like to make sure my supplies are ready to use each month when I come to scrapbooking.

Oh and I schedule my scrapping too!

How do you manage your supplies?