{"id":1430,"date":"2012-04-03T16:31:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T20:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbardwell.com\/db\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2017-11-19T09:37:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T14:37:10","slug":"do-you-make-these-digital-photo-storage-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougbardwell.com\/db\/do-you-make-these-digital-photo-storage-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you make these digital photo storage mistakes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A tale of what \u2018not\u2019 to do when storing your digital photos<\/strong><\/p>\n

Digital photographers can use up hard drive space at an alarming rate. While it\u2019s tempting to download today and worry about sorting out your files later, I\u2019m here to tell you that can lead to wholesale disorganization.<\/p>\n

If you shoot a couple pictures every now and again, you can stop reading now. But, if you are a serious photographer, shooting a couple hundred photos a week or more, allow me to embarrass myself in the hope of saving you the similar grief.<\/p>\n

My digital photo archives go back to the mid 1990\u2019s when I began putting my color slides on Photo CD\u2019s and shooting with my first digital camera \u2013 the Kodak KD50. In the old days, a CD was the most convenient method of storage, which eventually gave way to DVD\u2019s. Today unfortunately, shooting high-resolution RAW files, I can shoot in one day more than a standard DVD can hold.<\/p>\n

Also, as you shoot more and more, your need for an archiving system becomes mandatory. I\u2019ve tried many and finally decided on Adobe\u2019s Lightroom.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been using it since version 1 and they are now on version 4. \u00a0It\u2019s a great system and allows you to find your files on whatever hard drive they reside.<\/p>\n

That very quality was my undoing. Since I could index the files on my laptop as I traveled, that\u2019s what I did. It worked wonderfully.\u00a0 When my laptop would start to fill up, I could move some of the older files to an external USB drive attached to my desktop machine in the office.<\/p>\n

\"10harddrives\"<\/a>

I had my photos stored all over these 10 external drives<\/p><\/div>\n

Making backups of the files resulted in other copies being made to other external USB drives. When those filled up, and I ran out of USB ports, I bought a firewire drive since I had a free firewire port. Sooner or later it was bound to happen and I filled every port I had on my desktop machine with external drives. Now what?<\/p>\n

The answer was to consolidate all my original (and\/or edited) files to one large drive and move all my backup copies to those external USB drives. The USB drives were then placed in storage in a building separate from my large drive, just in case of fire, theft, etc.<\/p>\n

While I continue to keep my current files on my laptop, it gets backed up nightly to my large drive as well, whenever I\u2019m in the office.\u00a0 In addition, my best shots are also stored on my photo website<\/a>, so\u00a0 I now have three copies of my best files and two copies of everything else.<\/p>\n

You can read about my trials of organizing \u00a0all my files in another article<\/span> on the large drive I used to sort everything out \u2013 the OWC 16TB Qx2 external drive.<\/p>\n

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A tale of what \u2018not\u2019 to do when storing your digital photos Digital photographers can use up hard drive space at an alarming rate. While it\u2019s tempting to download today and worry about sorting out your files later, I\u2019m here to tell you that can lead to wholesale disorganization. If you shoot a couple pictures every now and again, you can stop reading now. But, if you are a serious photographer, shooting a couple hundred photos a week or more, allow me to embarrass myself in the hope of saving you the similar grief. My digital photo archives go back…<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Blog<\/a>, Photography<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"Doug","url":"https:\/\/dougbardwell.com\/db\/author\/admindoug\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","author_meta":{"display_name":"Doug","author_link":"https:\/\/dougbardwell.com\/db\/author\/admindoug\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dougbardwell.com\/db\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/10harddrives.jpg?fit=300%2C224&ssl=1","featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dougbardwell.com\/db\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/10harddrives.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dougbardwell.com\/db\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/10harddrives.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Doug","author_link":"https:\/\/dougbardwell.com\/db\/author\/admindoug\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dougbardwell.com\/db\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/10harddrives.jpg?fit=1296%2C968&ssl=1","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Blog<\/a>","Photography<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Blog<\/span>","Photography<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["archiving<\/a>","Hard disk drive<\/a>","Hardware<\/a>","photo files<\/a>","storage<\/a>","USB<\/a>","USB flash drive<\/a>"],"unlinked":["archiving<\/span>","Hard disk drive<\/span>","Hardware<\/span>","photo files<\/span>","storage<\/span>","USB<\/span>","USB flash drive<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 14 years ago","modified":"Updated 8 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on April 3, 2012","modified":"Updated on November 19, 2017"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on April 3, 2012 4:31 pm","modified":"Updated on November 19, 2017 9:37 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p21Ejy-n4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15308,"url":"https:\/\/dougbardwell.com\/db\/wd-my-cloud-ex2-ultra-is-digital-storage-on-overdrive\/","url_meta":{"origin":1430,"position":0},"title":"WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra is digital storage on overdrive","author":"Doug","date":"April 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"As our digital lives grow bigger and bigger, the need arises for more and more storage.\u00a0 With digital photos, 4K videos and all the downloaded movies we accumulate, your computer\u2019s hard drive can quickly become overloaded\u2026and that\u2019s a really bad thing. 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