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Hello everyone,
I would like your help/advice on a couple of questions regarding my photos.
I've been thinking recently about what the best way would be to manage all of my photos.
- First of all, I would like to have some kind of system to be perfectly save with all of my photos (and other files as well) to make sure I'll have them at hand for the rest of my life, so I would like you hear your thoughts on what would be the best way to go when it comes to backing up my photos (and other files). Do I use (multiple) external hard drives kept in different locations, maybe a set of DVD's as well? Do I use online storage? How often should I renew these external hard drives or DVDs as they get get older and are more likely to become unreadable? I travel a lot and I take a lot of pictures so I get a little paranoid about the possibility to lose all those precious memories.
- Second, what would be the best software to use? I currently have about 50GBs of photos and they're all in one big Iphoto library file, but I ask myself if it would be wise to also keep multiple copies of my photos just as JPEG in regular folders to be able to use a different software in the future as well and not to be dependent only on Apple's Iphoto. What's a good software aside from Iphoto? I'm thinking of switching to an SLR camera in the future so I'm thinking by then I'd probably need a program that has more 'professional' features of managing and editing photos. Also, is there a way to export ALL of my photos from Iphoto into folders and sub folders without it becoming one huge mess of different unsorted filenames in one huge folder?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Kind regards,
Santiago
I would like your help/advice on a couple of questions regarding my photos.
I've been thinking recently about what the best way would be to manage all of my photos.
- First of all, I would like to have some kind of system to be perfectly save with all of my photos (and other files as well) to make sure I'll have them at hand for the rest of my life, so I would like you hear your thoughts on what would be the best way to go when it comes to backing up my photos (and other files). Do I use (multiple) external hard drives kept in different locations, maybe a set of DVD's as well? Do I use online storage? How often should I renew these external hard drives or DVDs as they get get older and are more likely to become unreadable? I travel a lot and I take a lot of pictures so I get a little paranoid about the possibility to lose all those precious memories.
- Second, what would be the best software to use? I currently have about 50GBs of photos and they're all in one big Iphoto library file, but I ask myself if it would be wise to also keep multiple copies of my photos just as JPEG in regular folders to be able to use a different software in the future as well and not to be dependent only on Apple's Iphoto. What's a good software aside from Iphoto? I'm thinking of switching to an SLR camera in the future so I'm thinking by then I'd probably need a program that has more 'professional' features of managing and editing photos. Also, is there a way to export ALL of my photos from Iphoto into folders and sub folders without it becoming one huge mess of different unsorted filenames in one huge folder?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Kind regards,
Santiago