On Oct 2, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Tom Pfeiffer wrote:
- trying to get a handle on cataloging and storing your images safely
before
you have 6 million of them.
Well said... I think this is probably one of the FIRST things anyone
new to digital needs to seriously think through. Most people now a days
seem to favor external hard drives for storage, which is probably a
good idea. I have all my photos on CD, mainly because when I got
started in digital in the late 90's, cheap external hard drives did not
exist. DO NOT begin piling up huge photo libraries on your computer
hard drive. All these photo storage / cataloging software programs are
worthless if you still have it all on your computer. You will fill up
your hard drive, plus Murphy's Law being what it is, you are assured of
a hard drive crash if you have all your photos on it. The better
external hard drives have back ups to back ups, and are pretty safe for
storage, arguably better than CDs as far as longevity. If you decide to
use CDs as I have, then simply keep a list of all the photos on each
CD, and number the CDs. Write ONLY in the clear center area of the CD,
not on the disc itself. There are pens specially made to be safe to
write on CDs, but why bother... you can't list everything that is on
the CD anyway. Do that on a separate sheet of paper. And don't keep
your CD list on your computer either! The main thing to remember is to
not allow your computer to become your storage area for your photos and
photo information. Also, personally, I don't like trusting outside
sources such as Shutterfly to store my photos.
My two cents,
Steve
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