What do you do with all your media?

SixPapaCharlie

SixPapaCharlie

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I am going through my PC and I have 15 years of pictures and video.
Early married life, Dogs, Kids, Whatever other adventures and it just sits on a backup drive.

It is the modern equivalent of an attic full of photo albums only now instead of 27 exposures of which only 5 or 6 turn out, we have literally 1000s of photos / videos from every year.

I am thinking I will put everything in folder by year and make a limit of 10 photos per event and 10 min of video and delete everything else.

Even the flying stuff. Really when am I ever going to go back and watch 97 landing videos?

How do you manage your digital memories?
 
Storage is so cheap these days, just make a "raw" storage area and an organized/formatted/edited storage area. The way machine smarts are progressing, the raw data might become interesting again someday.
 
I use Google Photos. Unlimited free storage of high quality photos and video.

Someday you'll miss that ONE photo you decided not to save. It's free. Why not use it!
 
Don't delete anything you will kick yourself in the butt 20 or 30 years from now. Your kids will love the photos when you are gone.
 
Digital clutter is as bad as physical clutter. I agree with your plan of keeping only a small number of photos per event, photos that bring you joy. I am an avid photographer and usually shoot hundreds of RAW images per event, but I process only about 10-20% of them. I delete the rest. That's way, when I go back and look through my photos, I don't waste time skipping through the junk.


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Storage is at commodity pricing levels and continues to fall. My time to bother sorting through the stuff to figure out what needs to be deleted costs more than the pennies a day to store all of it on cheap local disks or online services. It's almost to the point where solid state "disk" is that cheap, even.
 
I just don't take pictures. Just try to find a picture of me from 1973.....

And yes, I do wish I had pictures of that time in my life.
 
With storage at less than $30 a terabyte at costco these days, I just keep things on different drives. I have a network drive (WD) for the live stuff and one of these iosafe drives for backup. I'm thinking about some cloud diversity as well.
 
I have TB drives that I keep everything on. I thought about sifting through and deleting the bad pictures, but even they're apart of the memory. I've even kept old flying videos. They mean a lot to me now.

It's the fear of losing the drive that keeps me up some nights.
 
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Storage drive inside computer. Small two bay external NAS drive. Things I truly don't want to lose are saved to DVD.

If the computer C drive takes a poop the only thing lost is the OS and program software, all of which can be reinstalled with minimum hassle.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
I am going through my PC and I have 15 years of pictures and video.
Early married life, Dogs, Kids, Whatever other adventures and it just sits on a backup drive.

It is the modern equivalent of an attic full of photo albums only now instead of 27 exposures of which only 5 or 6 turn out, we have literally 1000s of photos / videos from every year.

I am thinking I will put everything in folder by year and make a limit of 10 photos per event and 10 min of video and delete everything else.

Even the flying stuff. Really when am I ever going to go back and watch 97 landing videos?

How do you manage your digital memories?
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The stuff that's good I move to a working drive as I go. When I fill up an SD card, I back it up onto a portable storage drive I keep for that sort of thing, and then store the SD card.
 
I am not so concerned about space but more does everybody keep it all?

Nowadays we have the luxury of snapping 20 photos of something. So ya get 20 very similar photos. Back then you planned your shots because they might not turn out.

I know I will want to go back and look at the photos but do you have directories that look like this?

I feel like just picking my favorite 1 or 2 and purging the rest.
In 15 more years cleaning this will be impossible.

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SixPapaCharlie said:
I am not so concerned about space but more does everybody keep it all?

Nowadays we have the luxury of snapping 20 photos of something. So ya get 20 very similar photos. Back then you planned your shots because they might not turn out.

I know I will want to go back and look at the photos but do you have directories that look like this?

I feel like just picking my favorite 1 or 2 and purging the rest.
In 15 more years cleaning this will be impossible.

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I edit in camera as I shoot, that's the nice part about it having a display. If I shoot 20 like your comp sheet, I'll keep the best 3 and delete the rest from the chip.
 
I'm too OCD to keep a bunch of pictures that I don't want, even though storage is trivially inexpensive. So I thin the herd to just the ones I'd like to keep.

Everything is stored locally and backed up locally, although most of it also exists on a cloud somewhere. Anything I place on the cloud is something that wouldn't be a big deal if made public. The more private stuff - tax documents and other financial stuff, medical records - I leave that all local.
 
On the output side, my screensaver on my tv points at my photo archive. It is a jerk because it doesn't always get the orientation right. On the flipside, our photos get viewed a lot more and it is pretty cool as it goes back about 15 years now.

I figure I will hack together some raspberry pi connected photo frame in the future to really keep the quantity showing.

For your dupe issue, just nuke the largest swaths and move on. Or, set aside a week and really let the OCD flag fly, but I would rather do 100 other things than that.
 
masloki said:
For your dupe issue, just nuke the largest swaths and move on. Or, set aside a week and really let the OCD flag fly, but I would rather do 100 other things than that.
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That day is today :(
 
masloki said:
On the output side, my screensaver on my tv points at my photo archive.
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Yeah, I do the same thing on my AppleTV. Its screensaver is tied to my cloud archive, and just rotates through. It's kind of cool because I was down in New Zealand a few weeks back, and the person housesitting for me could see the pictures start to appear on my TV as I was taking them half a world away.
 
I echo what Nate said - the time it would take to review all the images is massive.

You can easily delete the really bad images. But to determine 'the best 3 of 20' is going to be several minutes per set.

A bigger issue is organization and the ability to review and access. How do you archive your images? What do you use to review them?

Google's Picasa is pretty good for free, with basic editing tools that are easy to use. And an okay facial recognition feature. Not sure of other/better options.

This is a very big project. Good luck.
 
Also, I don't use cloud storage or anything Google for obvious reasons. I'd like to keep my rights to my photos.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
I know I will want to go back and look at the photos but do you have directories that look like this?

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A few years into the future our robot overlords servants might be able to do something useful with this, like maybe automatically compositing those shots into one uber-shot.
 
G-Man said:
I echo what Nate said - the time it would take to review all the images is massive.

You can easily delete the really bad images. But to determine 'the best 3 of 20' is going to be several minutes per set.

A bigger issue is organization and the ability to review and access. How do you archive your images? What do you use to review them?

Google's Picasa is pretty good for free, with basic editing tools that are easy to use. And an okay facial recognition feature. Not sure of other/better options.

This is a very big project. Good luck.
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I like Picasa.



Currently I arrange them by year - Season - Event


  • 2014
    • Fall
      • Breastfeeding Mom in the mall 001
      • Neighbor girl sunbathing 023
    • Winter
      • My first time in Jail
  • 2015
    • Spring
      • Community Service pics
      • Showering lady left front door unlocked
      • My second time in jail

etc...
 
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SixPapaCharlie said:
I like Picasa.



Currently I arrange them by year - Season - Event


  • 2014
    • Fall
      • Breastfeeding Mom in the mall 001
      • Neighbor girl sunbathing 023
    • Winter
      • My first time in Jail
  • 2015
    • Spring
      • Community Service pics
      • Showering lady left front door unlocked
      • My second time in jail

etc...
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6PC, those are great memories you have there! I can understand why you would want to preserve them.

David
 
flhrci said:
6PC, those are great memories you have there! I can understand why you would want to preserve them.

David
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Just think about where the camera was to get it into jail...:eek: I heard Bryan likes big lenses...
 
Live for the moment. Store nothing. Take a picture post it,for everyone to enjoy ,forget it.
 
Many pictures should be outright deleted immediately never to be seen again.

Digital cameras waste a lot of time and effort snapping away like a madman only to have one or maybe two pictures turn out worth a damn.

You've got your OCD picture snappers that catch you with spinach hanging out of your mouth, or a snotty nose. It's a big waste of megabytes.
 
Step 1 complete.
Ran a dupe image app and found 2.4 gigs of duplicate (100% match) photos.
In 15 years of having a digital camera, I have amassed 32,457 photos

That's insane
 
txflyer said:
Many pictures should be outright deleted immediately never to be seen again.

Digital cameras waste a lot of time and effort snapping away like a madman only to have one or maybe two pictures turn out worth a damn.

You've got your OCD picture snappers that catch you with spinach hanging out of your mouth, or a snotty nose. It's a big waste of megabytes.
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That's pretty much how I handle it. I shoot a set, I review them, and immediately throw out the ones I don't want.
 
I read the title quickly and thought it said " What do you do with all your MONEY?"..

I was like, damn!!!
 
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