No more obsessive than holding on to space monopolizing crates of crap
(I'm certain your family photos are of significant value to you), only
to have to haul them with you every move. Each time I move, which is
probably too frequently. I'm always astonished at the volume of junk
I've accumulated...this is usually followed by a very liberating
distribution of my belongings to people who could actually use them.
Back to the obsession angle, my current OCD nightmare is the chain of
back-up storage I don't have, and continue to avoid because the
necessity of it only highlights its futility.
lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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.
