Photo Management/Storage
The Wife has taken many camping photos over the years. We have stored them by month/year on a "Passbook" external hard drive. It works ok but there really is no efficient way of managing them. We us...
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Tvov wrote:
I separate photos by year and then subject in "folders" in the Photos folder of my computer.
I backup the pictures using the online backup service Mozy.
And... if I remember... during the winter I copy all the pictures onto a DVD.
Also, we do a yearly family photo album with highlight pictures of the past year using Shutterfly's photo album service. Actual, physical photo book. This is huge - actual "hard copies" of pictures.
I always wonder if all the "digital" pictures will be able to be "seen" 50 years in the future. Who knows how the "storage media" will change? Heck, what about 10 years from now?
They will be if you are willing to become an active archivist. When I discuss storage during a photo class, I hold up an 8" floppy disk and ask how many have even seen one.
While the basic file formats haven't changed, portable storage has. My solution for indexing images is Adobe's Lightroom. I have Apple's Time Machine as a backup for all my data (and applications), as well as a pair of portable drives that are mirrored with my images.
When the portable drives are full, I purchase larger replacements, move all the old images to the new drive & use the remaining space until they fill. As long as drive capacity increases at the rate it has been doing for the last 10 years or so, the system works.
By the way, my first portable drive was a 20MB; even one image from my current camera wouldn't fit. It was a SCSI drive which I doubt you could connect to most modern computers...
