What to do? Another year is fast coming to the end, If your like me you have several hundred close up shots on your hard drive and back up's. Every year I go through them delete the...

HOT Texas Loc: From the Heart of Texas

Another year is fast coming to the end, If your like me you have several hundred close up shots on your hard drive and back up's. Every year I go through them delete the one's I don't want and store them on a thub drive, It is a real pain in the a$$, time comsuming, boreing ordeal.

What do you do with yours?

hankm1 Loc: Mount Prospect IL

I delete them more frequently than once a year.
A chore, but it needs to be done. Be MERCILESS
with the delete key!

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I just leave them where they are. Create a new directory called 2018 and go from there.
--Bob

HOT Texas wrote:

Another year is fast coming to the end, If your like me you have several hundred close up shots on your hard drive and back up's. Every year I go through them delete the one's I don't want and store them on a thub drive, It is a real pain in the a$$, time comsuming, boreing ordeal.

What do you do with yours?

twowindsbear

What's your time worth??

Hard drives are cheap

It'll be a new year soon, treat yourself to a new hard drive

Problem solved

HOT Texas Loc: From the Heart of Texas

twowindsbear wrote:

What's your time worth??

Hard drives are cheap

It'll be a new year soon, treat yourself to a new hard drive

Problem solved

I told you what I do, I ask what do you do? put it on Another hard drive? and not go thru them?

Dixiegirl Loc: Alabama gulf coast

HOT Texas wrote:

Another year is fast coming to the end, If your like me you have several hundred close up shots on your hard drive and back up's. Every year I go through them delete the one's I don't want and store them on a thub drive, It is a real pain in the a$$, time comsuming, boreing ordeal.

What do you do with yours?

After deleting what I don't want (and that's usually a quite a few), I transfer the rest to DVDs until I'm ready to edit.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

I try to keep up with monthly deletions. I tend to edit my favorites from any shoot right away, and then lose interest in the rest, so it's not too hard - ha. I might inadvertently lose some keepers that months later I wish I had, but while I'm still capable of getting around and going out regularly to take new pictures, I will always be looking more forward than back

SX2002 Loc: Adelaide, South Australia

Hi Johnny, I delete the pics I don't want pretty much every day once I've used them for what I want. I have folders in the Pictures section on my PC for every category and keep the best ones in these folders. For "special" events" or those I want to keep for further reference I have some storage boxes that hold 80 CDs and I keep the master copies in them. I also have an external drive where I keep a copy of what's on my PC. For me, CDs are the best way and they are also the cheapest at only 30-40 cents or so. Despite what some say, In all these years, I've never had a CD not work so I figure they are as safe as any other storage medium. Speaking to friends, there are far more failures with hard drives than any other type of storage. Hope this helps.

DOOK Loc: Maclean, Australia

I think we all hoard shots that don't justify keeping, either because of lack of quality (they looked great at the time, didn't they?--lol), or duplication. As an example, I have a zillion pelican shots--nothing wrong with them, but who needs 400 or so of them, many of which were taken at the same location & are very similar. I know that I should choose maybe 20 (which is difficult in itself) & delete the rest. However, I shudder at the thought of mass deleting good photos, simply because of having too many, & I suspect that some others might feel the same way. I think we should be more ruthless--if we don't need them, get rid of them....Easier said than done though, lol.

CLF Loc: Raleigh, NC

HOT Texas wrote:

Another year is fast coming to the end, If your like me you have several hundred close up shots on your hard drive and back up's. Every year I go through them delete the one's I don't want and store them on a thub drive, It is a real pain in the a$$, time comsuming, boreing ordeal.

What do you do with yours?

Johnny, they take up so little space I delete only a few, and I do this after the initial upload from the camera to my laptop. I then save them on my WD remote hard file. So far I am using only 15% of my backup drive and about 40% on the laptop.

Greg

CathyAnn Loc: Apache Junction, AZ

I "try" to delete them when I download them onto my computer. However, there are still more that I delete later when I'm processing shots in that file. Also, I'll delete when I'm going back over files too. A rather hap-hazard process.

I can find that delete button without looking! lol!