Roy, I'm sure that one day soon I'll opt for off-site "cloud" storage. I've got a few hundred CD's of scanned negs that I'll never look at again. They take up relatively little space and it's hard to just toss them. I backed up over a hundred vinyl LP's to CD recently. They will then be made into MPEG's, I guess. I also scanned a couple of file drawers full of personal ephemera. Family pictures going way back have been an on-going scanning project for me and my cousin. It is curious that most family snaps, even in their drugstore envelopes, are missing their negatives. Do we in the Digital Age have a pathological need to store data? AZ > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [SPAM] Re: Running Lightroom on own drive > From: PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx > Date: Fri, March 05, 2010 10:15 am > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > I always used a separate internal drive for images and I back them up to a > another internal drive in the computer once a week or so. Then I switch > the backup drive with one off the premises. I also have backed up stuff on > the smaller hard drives I have. What else can one do with those 30gig drives > that I paid $300 when they were cutting edge. 1T drives were $109 when I > walked thru Best Buy last so 30gig would be worth $3.27 now. > Roy > > > > > In a message dated 3/5/2010 9:10:29 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > > You don't need to isolate LR to its own drive, leave the program on > your main drive but start a catalog from your external drive. You can > have many catalogs and ne'er the twain need meet.
