Thank you Kim, that’s really useful, especially the bit about uploading after writing the title. I hadn’t thought of that, but its obvious now you point it out. Glad to stop renaming though, it was time consuming and I was never sure if it was pointless!
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Thank you very much @kimfolksy for explaining, I understand it now (takes a while 
). I tend to start my listing in the app where the images do come first. I like to write the description using the app as I can see it better whereas on the website the box is tiny. I do so much of the listing, save as a draft then head over to my Folksy account on the webpage to finish it from draft listings. I like to check it all on my Folksy account on the webpage before listing and I tend to move the photos around as I can see how it’s going to look on there before going live.
I’m pleased to hear they are all ok and no adjustments are needed, thank you for taking the time to check some of them, it’s all very interesting and makes sense once you know how it works, I will make a mental note to add the title first in future.
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I normally title my photos something like
Inkspots notebook front cover
Inkspots notebook back cover
Inkspots notebook inside cover
Inkspots notebook stood up
And so on and so forth, normally as a description
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Sorry Anne…I got confused then confused everyone else 
I misunderstood what was being said and thought we had to add a title to each image used in a listing…however, Kim has explained it all and I am relieved to say I don’t have to change anything I just need to remember to give new listings a title before anything else. It all sounds so easy when you know how, I’m not great at computer stuff so easily get flummoxed with it.
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Thank you for your help Stephen
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If you are keeping photos on your device then actually it is a very very good idea to name them, with meaningful and unique words, so you can find them again.
I write that backed up with many years of IT experience .
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You certainly did Debby - but I’m very easily confused when it comes to technology
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Thank you Joy, I literally have thousands upon thousands, I need to spend some long hours going through them all and deleting the ones I don’t need. I could start naming some new ones as I take them but it’s a relief to know I don’t need to do them all for my Folksy listings.
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I have Always named my photos meaningfully. They tell me as well as describing what it is, iwhich version, ie. sequence number of the design it is and the colour if it varies, the year month i made it and when sold when and where.
I find it absolutely invaluable. I also use the picture names to generate spread sheets of sales and market inventories with a sneaky little Command to convert to csv.
All based on writing program coding standards for Pirelli and Alllied Brewery to name just a couple, in the 1980s. As well as being a coding auditor for F International even earlier than that. Meaningful names for everything so that someone else could pick up the code and understand it too.
A habit once started, never to be broken.
I also rename all my holiday photos in the same way with date and place.
EG
240805 krakow (93).jpg
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I think it’s a great idea but for me personally I just don’t have enough hours in a day for everything, perhaps when I retire 
although i have friends who have retired and they are busier than ever. I suppose it’s like everything if it’s done from the beginning it doesn’t take long to keep up with it, with the thousands of photos I have in the cloud it would be a very long task.
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Debby absolutely agree. As I said I’ve always done it so all my photos are already meaningfully named and I have A LOT of photos :). As i pull photos in my from SD camera card it’s just automatic for me to rename them, in groups, takes a second if you do it that point. I file by photo. My stock files are photos.
. I wouldn’t dream of renaming old photos. I
don’t keep anything on the cloud, I have some rather good hard drives. Don’t want to have to worry about customer data being stolen so i don’t store anything at all on the cloud.
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It just makes total sense to give meaningful names to photos and files regardless of whether they are intended to be uploaded.
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I don’t store any customer data on the cloud only the photos taken with my phone or tablet. We do back them up to cd/memory sticks every so often since I lost a few years worth when i first started Bearlescent after my tablet and it’s memory card broke.
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Does anyone use Meta Business Suite on PC to post to Facebook and Instagram?
Sometimes, often actually, when I’m posting and I would like to share to a Folksy Facebook group (not specifically Folksy, it happens with other groups too), it doesn’t appear in the menu of groups I can share to. The list seems to change with only some of my groups on it at any one time.
It’s just a bit annoying and I wondered if anyone knows a way to post to a group that is not on this list, at the same time as posting to FB and Instagram?
Or maybe recommend a different program to do this?
Might you have joined some of the groups as your personal page rather than your business page?
i had a laptop stolen from our motorhome when we were in Slovakia some years ago. The person who bought it (but obviously not the one who stole it) emailed me to say he was a student and had bought it in good faith. He couldnt afford to send it back to me but if i told him what data i wanted he would copy if off and send it. At that point i had a very disorganised filing system so he just basically dumped everything he could find including my photos from 10 weeks travelling round Eastern Euriope. He sent me a DVD with everything on. He also sent his address but i didnt send the police round. 
Nowadays, in case i am every asked again where to find my data so they can send it to me easily I set up one main folder on both our computers . It is called DATA and within it it has folders all prefixed with DATA…
Hindsight it wonderful but it taught me a good lessson about establishing a good foolproof filing system as the very first thing i ever do on a new device.
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Oh heck, but it was very lucky that someone bought it and got in touch about all of your files, not everyone would have been as honest or would bother to do so. I can understand why you now have such a good system in place, it isn’t until something makes us sit up and think that we get around to safeguarding things.
We fitted our next motorhome with a laptop safe !!
He was called Peter and honestly i am sure he was lovely , from his messages. Can’t tell you how grateful I was to get my pics.
Just to prove it here is one from Slovenia about a week before we lost the laptop.
A 20 year younger version of us that is.
Even then I used meaningful photo names :
040517_moravce_slovenia14.jpg~~
PS I no longer let the camera date stamp my photos
PPS still get the dress… you never know i might fit into it again one day
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What a lovely photo of you both Joy and you havn’t changed a bit.
Oh I remember when my photos use to have dates on them, it would have been no good if you wanted to put them in a frame .
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I will look into this too x