genocolo wrote:
I am sure that some of you have experienced the daunting task of organizing voluminous number of photos. I have all ready researched and read many articles on the internet and reviewed many of the relevant topics on UHH. I have consulted a computer expert, who did not know as much as I know about photos, organization, etc. I still have not been able to come up with a good plan to attack this problem and achieve my goals set out below.
I am working on a 250gb MacBook pro. I have photos on google photos (54,973), flickr (8,120 and 95,838 on two different accounts), iCloud, back blaze, sandisk (210 gb), and on various other external drives and older computers. I believe that flickr and google photos have pretty much found all my photos spread over all the devices, but I am sure that many, many of the above are duplicates
My goals are to (as efficiently as possible):
1.get all photos in one place
2.identify and delete duplicates without deleting keepers
3.create albums/folders/etc for each year, with special events like travel within each year
4.make slideshows/movies/etc of each year so that I can show them to family on hd tv using something like apple tv.
5.backup all of the above so that they are available to my family for years to come
I am aware of and have tried such software as duplicate photo fixer pro, duplicate sweeper, photo sweeper, and power photos. They all seem to work but I have to get all the photos in one place to really expect them to do their job. I also have Lightroom and basic knowledge of it. I know it is a powerful organizer if done right.
I have tried to download all my flickr photos but was overwhelmed by the time and the inefficiency of its download process. Same with Google.
Please help me with your experience and advice. Thanks in advance.
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I've been making computer files for over 50 years, but the oldest one I still have is only about 10 years old.
The rest were on 1/2" tape, QIC tape, 5 1/4" floppy, Quantum drives, Zip drives, etc. One either can't buy a drive,
or the magnetic information on the tape has bled through.
CDR and 3 1/4" floppy diskette drives are still obtainable, but for how much longer?
The information itself was stored as Wordstar, Perfect Writer, troff, dBase IV, DataFlex,
Informix, files in tar and cpio archives compressed with compress, zip, pkzipo, gzip, etc.
And various vesrsion of each format, archive format and compression algorithm.
The Rosetta Stone is easier to read.
All computer files eventually get lost. Hard drives die, backups become unreadable, media
become obsolete, files are accidentally deleted, and "cloud" providers go out of business
and their disk drives go into the dumpster.
John Keats' epitaph: "Here lies one whose name was writ in water." Feb. 24, 1821
But I still have all my negatives.