I wish my brother John had done more sorting and purging. But his life got complicated by Parkinson’s etc in 2015 and he was unwilling/unable to do much with his photo archives or other stuff after that. Physical and cognitive decline. With his images, my dilemma is that my sister-in-law will have a different filter than I do. I see 30-40 interior shots of some unfurnished vacant apartments. I would delete the whole batch. No esthetic value, no context. But she might say “OMG those were the two whirlwind days we spent apartment hunting when I moved to Buda! Gotta keep those!” So I am trying to sort/organize by subject and time and location, then I’ll hand it back to her to figure out what to keep. John got his first 35mm camera in 1957. He scanned many of the images from the 367 rolls of slide film that her shot over the years. One of the upsides of this project for me is rediscovering scenes from my teen years, shots of my parents back then, etc. Stan
Sent from my iPad > On Nov 28, 2022, at 8:07 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 04:36:50PM -0500, Stanley Halpin wrote: >> I am going through a large stack of articles extracted from Shutterbug >> issues from 1992-2004. > . . . >> I will keep a few Pentax articles, a 1991 article on computers (e.g., how >> many megabytes one might need to store files, and how some users were >> starting to adopt storage approaches that could accommodate gigabytes of >> data!), and other miscellany. > > I can relate to that. > > At the moment I'm in the process of reviewing a whole lot of old image files, > etc., from my pre-digital and early (non-Pentax) days. > I've got three or four generations of backups retrieved from ever-increasing > sizes of external hard drive (100GB and up), but some of the oldest stuff > comes from machines where the internal hard drive sizes were 512MB or less. > I've narrowed down the effort to focus on maybe 400GB or so of files (maybe > 100,000 individual files in a few thousand folders). > > I know that for some folks 100,000 files isn't all that many, but I shoot at > a rather slower pace - I would estimate there are perhaps 20,000 different > images (and probably half of those are only present once, in the most recent > archive). Currently I'm just looking for duplicate copies of images, etc. - > there are going to be quite a few of those, as each of the backup snapshots > has one or more complete image collections which are, more or less, arranged > the same way from machine to machine. But that "more or less" is a > complication - quite apart from later snapshots having files that don't > appear in older snapshots, there are several cases where whole hierarchies of > files have been moved to a slightly different place. And then there are > those images which got copied off into a separate sub-project, so there are > almost-duplicates that should be kept separately as well as the original copy > ... > > One benefit of getting down to the task (which is something I've been putting > off for at least ten years...) is that I'm finding old shots that I'd totally > forgotten about, not to mention shots that I remembered, but hadn't been able > to put my hands on when I tried to locate them! > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
