CamB wrote:
I too scanned thousands of slides and thousands of negatives, both black and white and color. Except for a few special projects all the now scanned stuff, went in the garbage. What would I ever keep it all for? It’s all backed up and backed up again and much is now shared or at least shareable. I will never scan or even look at the originals again. I scanned them so I could get rid of them. What would be the point of continuing to store them?
Depends how important the data is to you. One could consider the actual slide as a hard copy backup in a different medium stored possibly off site if you wish, for the chance your computer gets stolen, damaged, or lost somehow, let's say in a fire.