Good morning to everyone. I hadn’t expected the Alinder article to spawn the
conversation on storage media; but that’s the wonder and fun of this place, I
think.
With storage media and also “work-flow" in mind then, at present what process
do you, and indeed anyone here on the List who wants to chime in, use in
preserving and storing your images and cataloguing them?
I’m certain that have only a fraction of the images that most of you here on
the List do; but I have two “folders”, one for JPEGS and one for DNG,
catalogued by date and then subject, (with an on-going and admittedly slow
back-tracking to "keyword” the files) that reside on two external hard drives.
I run the Apple/MacOS backup program, Time Capsule, every 10 to 14 days on my
daily computer’s hard drive and every third or fourth time I use the in-house
Apple/Mac OS disc maintenance utility program to check the integrity of both
the internal hard drive and then two external hard drives, which archive
business and personal file besides the images files.
How frequent, in terms of years, do you all think that there ought to be an
upgrade to “next-generation” technology in terms of hard drives?
Best regards,
Peter S
On Aug 4, 2021, at 10:27 PM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And eventually new storage formats. how many people still have the software
to read the old Kodak photo disks? I ran across one the other day. One of
these days Jpeg, Tiff etc will be replaced by something "better" and the
ability to read them will be a real challenge. I have some old Word
documents I cannot read anymore without finding a computer that will run
Windows 3.11 and load my old Office software, then maybe work my way up from
there if I can find the appropriate translators from way back.
Aram
On 8/4/2021 7:11 PM, David Young wrote:
Agreed, Aram. But DVDs were the best choice at the time. My point is that to--
preserve photos, the need to be copied to new media as time goes on. But
most people are not interested. Thus, those photos will soon be lost.
David
On Aug. 4, 2021 7:41 p.m., Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ha. And 5 years from now will DVD's even exist? They are gone from laptops
now, and with videos being streamed, perhaps as a media it will die soon.
Aram
On 8/4/2021 6:39 PM, David Young wrote:
I agree, Aram. The current generation is the most recorded, but least
preserved in history.
When I gave our daughter a dvd of photos of her wedding, I advised her that
it needed to be copied on to a fresh dvd (or other, updated media) every 5
years, to ensure preservation, she said, "Oh, 5 years is enough"!!
It's a different world!
David.
On Aug. 4, 2021 7:18 p.m., Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thank you Peter. In this digital era i wonder how many of our photos we
are taking now will be available to view in 50-100 years. My bet is
very few.
Aram
On 8/4/2021 5:46 AM, Peter Stevens (Redacted sender fritzj3 for DMARC)
wrote:
Good morning to everyone. If you have the time and inclination, please,--
take a look at the photos posted at the Guardian link below. David,
given your past business activities I think you’ll find
one certain image interesting, if not, provoke a smile. :)
Peter S
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/aug/04/we-were-once-alive-100-year-old-portraits-from-rural-sweden-in-pictures-john-alinder
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