- Location
- Beaumaris, Melbourne, Australia
- Name
- John ...
Bring it ALL together on one drive. Use a backup program like SYNCBACK to COPY the errant folders, preferably to a drive that has no current images on it.Thanks John, I do need to try that program out. This is also partially storage management, as my hard drives are set up as separate drive letters, with different camera/for at folders on different drives, and I want to bring my better stuff together so it's faster and easier to make and keep backups.
Once this has been done, then backup that entire folder onto another drive.
Delete NOTHING until you have quickly eyeballed all your images.
My folder naming system is described in detail here:
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FlipBuilder - Meta Data - Cataloging
In trying not to repeat the problems inherent in cataloging thousands of negatives, I am looking for a way of storing a long description of a photo - beyond who and when I'd like to know why I took the pic (etc). Using only keywords is not sufficient. I'd like to know that whoever runs across...
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And my file naming convention is here:
Post in thread 'FlipBuilder - Meta Data - Cataloging'
FlipBuilder - Meta Data - Cataloging
In trying not to repeat the problems inherent in cataloging thousands of negatives, I am looking for a way of storing a long description of a photo - beyond who and when I'd like to know why I took the pic (etc). Using only keywords is not sufficient. I'd like to know that whoever runs across...
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General workflow described here:
Post in thread 'Image files managing'
Image files managing
Few years ago I witnessed a ransomware in action. Basically it accessed every directory where the user had rights to read and write and encrypted the files based on file extension. I have been adviced to use cloud services, but according to my experience, they can be affected by these types of...
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HTH.