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How do you manage a large-ish collection of photos? Do you keep them all on one hard drive, an external?

I'm moving everything of mine to one laptop (macbook), along with an online backup and a Time Machine backup. I'm just learning the mac really, not really familiar with iphoto, I've used it before....

The problem is its 40GB of files, and I'll probably keep on adding and adding....eventually its probably going to out-grow my hard drive.

So how do you manage, for photos and video? I know video gets really crazy with file size too, so wondering how you optimize it all?
 
Buzz Killington said:
How do you manage a large-ish collection of photos? Do you keep them all on one hard drive, an external?

I'm moving everything of mine to one laptop (macbook), along with an online backup and a Time Machine backup. I'm just learning the mac really, not really familiar with iphoto, I've used it before....

The problem is its 40GB of files, and I'll probably keep on adding and adding....eventually its probably going to out-grow my hard drive.

So how do you manage, for photos and video? I know video gets really crazy with file size too, so wondering how you optimize it all?
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So your child porn collection is growing, eh? Well, the most important thing is to encrypt it so that the feds can't get to it. But you probably know that already, since you aren't in jail yet. As I've told you before, you'd be better off deleting it. You know they'll catch you sooner or later. Pervert.

barfo
 
barfo said:
So your child porn collection is growing, eh? Well, the most important thing is to encrypt it so that the feds can't get to it. But you probably know that already, since you aren't in jail yet. As I've told you before, you'd be better off deleting it. You know they'll catch you sooner or later. Pervert.

barfo
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I use iPhoto and love it. Never had problems. I have a 750gig external drive that I keep all my photos and music on.
 
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I use iPhoto and love it. Never had problems. I have a 750gig external drive that I keep all my photos and music on.
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do you back up the external drive?

Do you just keep it as an iphoto file? i think its a single file whenever you import photos?
 
Buzz Killington said:
do you back up the external drive?

Do you just keep it as an iphoto file? i think its a single file whenever you import photos?
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I have never backed them up again. But I do have them all as individual files. My man EWT on here is an expert when it comes to this stuff. Holler at him, he'll help ya out.
 
who's EWT?

I'll probably keep as individual files, I'll have to do some test imports with it.....I just get scared with a huge 40GB+ file.
 
Buzz Killington said:
who's EWT?

I'll probably keep as individual files, I'll have to do some test imports with it.....I just get scared with a huge 40GB+ file.
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Search for him on here. EWT. He posts very rarely. We work together and he is a MAC/Computer, dork/genius!
 
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I use windows home server. It automatically keeps copies of everything on two drives without me having to worry about it... plus I have access to all of them over the internet. When I need more storage I can just plug in another USB drive and it will use it.

HP sells mediasmart boxes with windows home server installed... though I just installed a copy on an old PC.
 
External HDs works fine... but look for something with build in raid between disks because you don't want to lose anything if a drive fails. Also back up to DVDs.
 
When it comes to my digital photos, I'm a bit of a redundancy freak. Or as Wookie would say, I'm the President of the Department of Reduncancy Department. I have all my photos on my laptop, on my company's server, on a computer I built specifically to hold as a hard drive and burned to CDs.
 
Right now mine are on:

1. Local Hard drive
2. Very Very sporadic backup on a Passport drive I keep at my parents condo here in LA
3. Online backup
4. All photos are on Flickr (about 15,000 photos)

I can't do DVD backups, they take too fucking long to do. What I might do is save the Movie files on a separate hard drive for when I dock at home. With photos + music, it eats up several hundred gigs of file space.


I'm probably going to get a 1TB time machine or something and then have the laptop backup wirelessly and then get Mozy to back everything up online as well.
 
I'm probably switching to Mozy, which is only $4.95 a month. I was on Jungledisk, but they charge by the Gigabyte and it was getting up to $9 a month for backing up online.
 
My wife takes a LOT of pictures. Kids, family, scenery, etc. She can literally fill up a 32MB card on a weekend trip.

We bought an external drive to store all of the photos.
 
PapaG said:
My wife takes a LOT of pictures. Kids, family, scenery, etc. She can literally fill up a 32MB card on a weekend trip.

We bought an external drive to store all of the photos.
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Careful. I have two dead external drives. I'd hate to have you lose your photos.
 
yeah, externals are kind of iffy, which is why I'm not always 100% on them. Flickr is good for me, although the thing that sucks is that its not really good if you lose your originals, to download them all at once.
 
I'll probably use that as a backup...but I'd rather STORE photos on my laptop so I can access them for emailing anywhere....I SUPPOSE that really doesn't matter though since I do upload them to FLICKR I suppose?
 
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