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Jul 29, 2018 12:52:50   #
BlueMorel Loc: Southwest Michigan
 
I shoot only RAW now and post-process in LR. Some I export in jpg to use in online contests, social networking, sharing with family, or occasional prints. I am now questioning my use of extra space for those one-off uses of my jpgs. What do you do with yours? I do keep my LR catalog backed up, so I figure I could always recreate any jpgs I've exported.

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Jul 29, 2018 12:54:30   #
AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire
 
External hard drive or thumb drives for all my exports. Storage space is cheap today!

Andy

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Jul 29, 2018 12:58:37   #
Rongnongno Loc: FL
 
Be a pack rat, keep it or just delete it as you have the original file with all the modifications in order to recreate if needed.

The excuse of 'cheap storage' in order to keep anything and everything is getting old.

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Jul 29, 2018 12:58:41   #
rwilson1942 Loc: Houston, TX
 
I put all of mine in a folder that I run a desktop slide show from.
I also use them as a source of information on the ID of the insects and flowers I shoot.
I forget IDs quickly :) I back up the folder to external HD.

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Jul 29, 2018 13:00:06   #
Rongnongno Loc: FL
 
rwilson1942 wrote:
I put all of mine in a folder that I run a desktop slide show from.
I also use them as a source of information on the ID of the insects and flowers I shoot.
I forget IDs quickly :) I back up the folder to external HD.

Use EXIF to keep the info you need. It is more efficient. As to backing up? This is the only thing that is needed.

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Jul 29, 2018 13:00:30   #
DanCulleton
 
Delete jpegs after use.

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Jul 29, 2018 13:07:17   #
AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire
 
Rongnongno wrote:
Be a pack rat, keep it or just delete it as you have the original file with all the modifications in order to recreate if needed.

The excuse of 'cheap storage' in order to keep anything and everything is getting old.


My thumb drives hold exports of all the shots that I've found worthwhile to print, submit, etc. It's fun to pull out one from several years ago and look at what I thought was good then versus what I think now.

Andy

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Jul 29, 2018 13:27:38   #
brucewells Loc: Central Kentucky
 
BlueMorel wrote:
I shoot only RAW now and post-process in LR. Some I export in jpg to use in online contests, social networking, sharing with family, or occasional prints. I am now questioning my use of extra space for those one-off uses of my jpgs. What do you do with yours? I do keep my LR catalog backed up, so I figure I could always recreate any jpgs I've exported.


I don't keep JPGs. It's too easy and effortless to export the processed raw images to a JPG for sharing/printing. Then, as time evolves, and I find a better way to process that raw image, if I had exported a JPG, it would now be obsolete (unlike the original). When I'm finished with the JPG images I did export, I delete them.

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Jul 29, 2018 13:40:40   #
blackest Loc: Ireland
 
if your processing starts and ends in lightroom then keeping the jpeg is probably unnecessary.

However if your processing goes beyond that then there are a couple of useful export options. You can export into a sub folder of the source folder and you can also automatically add to the catalog on export. you can also choose to open the exported file automatically in another program.

e.g you might export as 16bit png in adobe rgb and open in affinity photo create a new layer and edit that in nik say add a high pass filter layer save the layered psd file and open that in lightroom (its already in the catalog since you added it when you exported it) and then a crop and export as jpg.

or maybe export as jpeg open that file and crop. The jpeg may be finished as far as editing goes but you might want different virtual crops. If you have no use for the layered psd file that can be deleted in lightroom.

the nice thing about an export to a subfolder in lightroom is keeping track of it and it also becoming part of my backup strategy. I have my lightroom tree of images checked every two hours for changes and automatically backed up. This is much cleaner than just exporting to the desktop say where the exported file just joins the desktop mess...

It's up to you how sophisticarted :) or simple you want things to be.

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Jul 29, 2018 14:00:23   #
JD750 Loc: SoCal
 
I put exported files JPEGs, et. Al. in a sub directory under the shoot directory. The sub directory is named /output files. That way I easily find them again and share with others, without having to re-generate them.

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Jul 29, 2018 14:23:39   #
rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA
 
AndyH wrote:
External hard drive or thumb drives for all my exports. Storage space is cheap today!

Andy


Exactly. I set a 6 month clean out interval for my Exported Photos folder.

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Jul 29, 2018 14:25:23   #
rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA
 
One-time-use image files I eventually delete after they have served their purpose.

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Jul 30, 2018 06:45:44   #
fotogk Loc: Tuftonboro, NH
 
I have a folder called to be trashed which I put exported jpgs and other items I created once a week I go through and delete those files keeping desktop, document, picture folders cleaner

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Jul 30, 2018 06:48:01   #
mborn Loc: Massachusetts
 
The majority of my exported jpgs get deleted. I save the better ones for my screen saver slideshow

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Jul 30, 2018 07:11:32   #
achesley Loc: SW Louisiana
 
Wow! I keep the jpegs, file them, save in a jump drive back up. Then most of the time delete the RAW files as I don't want/need it anymore after processing. I really don't do the LR file and catalog thing, just do it in Win 10 File explorer.

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