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How to organize my 5000 photos like you did on a PC?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1841154" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>@MBAmtloin, can I suggest that you not delete the photos as you said you planned? Unless the photo is totally useless (no focus, accidentally took a picture of the pavement, finger over the lens, etc), I have found that those less-than-perfect images often are great memory items when you browse the images later. Historians are bemoaning the tendency to throw away those images that in a few decades might be useful to historians for what's in the background, not what the image was originally all about. One of the examples they cited was a photograph from Germany shortly after the end of WWI, when the photographer took a picture of a politician talking to people in the street. The importance of the image was not the politician, nor the people near him, but that there was a young man on the periphery that was identified as Adolph Hitler, one of the earliest photos of him known to exist. The picture of the politician was out of focus, but the young man was in perfect focus. Had the photographer thrown away the picture as "imperfect" the historical image of Hitler would have been lost. On a more practical note, I had a friend who had a fire at his home and lost a lot of items in it. The insurance company wanted a list of everything item-by-item. He didn't have an inventory, but he did have some pictures taken at a Christmas party. What was key was not the party, but the furniture in the background that could be listed for the insurance company. Eventually, the entire set of rooms lost was mapped out and a rather complete list compiled. Some of the furniture had drawers and with the image they were able to recall exactly what was in those drawers as well.</p><p></p><p>So, instead of throwing those images in the trash and erasing them, can I suggest you just archive them off to someplace to save the storage space? You may wish you had them back at some point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1841154, member: 396914"] @MBAmtloin, can I suggest that you not delete the photos as you said you planned? Unless the photo is totally useless (no focus, accidentally took a picture of the pavement, finger over the lens, etc), I have found that those less-than-perfect images often are great memory items when you browse the images later. Historians are bemoaning the tendency to throw away those images that in a few decades might be useful to historians for what's in the background, not what the image was originally all about. One of the examples they cited was a photograph from Germany shortly after the end of WWI, when the photographer took a picture of a politician talking to people in the street. The importance of the image was not the politician, nor the people near him, but that there was a young man on the periphery that was identified as Adolph Hitler, one of the earliest photos of him known to exist. The picture of the politician was out of focus, but the young man was in perfect focus. Had the photographer thrown away the picture as "imperfect" the historical image of Hitler would have been lost. On a more practical note, I had a friend who had a fire at his home and lost a lot of items in it. The insurance company wanted a list of everything item-by-item. He didn't have an inventory, but he did have some pictures taken at a Christmas party. What was key was not the party, but the furniture in the background that could be listed for the insurance company. Eventually, the entire set of rooms lost was mapped out and a rather complete list compiled. Some of the furniture had drawers and with the image they were able to recall exactly what was in those drawers as well. So, instead of throwing those images in the trash and erasing them, can I suggest you just archive them off to someplace to save the storage space? You may wish you had them back at some point. [/QUOTE]
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