For cataloging, I keyword my photos and organize them in folders grouped
by year then by trip/location. I make no attempt to name the files with
any temporal data. Just a catchy or descriptive name. I don't need to
organize by date as in Lightroom it is so easy to find anything by date
and/or keyword. I had not keyworded things when I started LR, so I had
to play catch up when I had about 8K of photos to go through. My
catalog is now at 45K but keywording is one of the first things I do
before I ever start to develop them. They all get imported into the
same "Import" folder where throw away obvious errors in judgement. Then
I name and keyword them. I will then usually develop them and when done
I move them to appropriate folders in my directory tree. this way
anything that is in my Import folder I know are not ready for prime time
yet. Once moved, it still might be tweaked from time to time, but
mostly it is in presentable shape.
As for locations, they are all on a 3TB internal standard drive that is
getting full, so I have a 6TB one in my machine and will be getting
ready to move them there. Q2 RAW files are BIG! The LR catalog is
located on my drive C that is a blazing fast M.2 SSD drive. I have an
external drive for backup, but I don't really trust external drives. In
40 years or so of using computers, I have never had an internal drive go
bad or seen any of the hundred or so drives at school go bad, but have
had 4-5 external ones poop out on me in the last 10 years or so.
Admittedly they have all been the small 2.5" drives that I take on trips
to backup my photos on the laptop, not the 3.5" drives. My new computer
now has 5 internal drives (because I had a few laying around) and one of
these days I will have one of them be my main backup with the external
drive the one I can store safely when we go somewhere. I will also have
the backup take place automatically when I find suitable software. I am
very religious at doing my manual backup's, so that has never been a
problem. I use the free Microsoft software called SyncToy.
More info than you wanted to know???
Aram
On 8/5/2021 3:03 AM, Peter Stevens (Redacted sender fritzj3 for DMARC)
wrote:
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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