Thank you all for your constructive comments. I have been away for awhile so I could not respond. I am new to photo editing so i will give it a shot and see if i can make some of the recommended improvements.

I just returned from a winter trip thru the southwest. I found the sunsets fascinating and trying to determine which I should keep. I would like your options on these three. Are they too dark? Other opinions?

I have not done any cropping or post processing yet. Any recommendations?

Thank you

A few from my travels. Remembering warmer weather

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Cany, Excellent shot. Love the colors. Need to get out west more.

Cany, Excellent shot. Love the colors. Need to get out west more.

I had a Seagate network drive that would not communicate. I called Seagate and their Customer service suggested that it may only be the network card and the drive was still intact. They indicated the hard drive and be removed and recovered and pointed to you tube videos. I watched them but they were beyond my abilities. Basically install the drive to a different computer to read the data. I agree with PHOTOMAN find a local shop you trust and have them get the data

Very nice. Love the clouds

All,

Thank you for all your responses and suggestions. Looks like I have some investigation to do. I appreciate your time to help with my problem.

Hi all, my first post on UHH but have been watching for over a year. Finally have decided to organize/ consolidate my photos before taking up the task learning to editing them. After many years, I finally have time on my hands. I had 15+ years of digital files stored on various old computers back up drives and CDs, multiple copies in different files as I moved to new computers. Also my wife had copies on hers as well so I have a lot of sorting and cleaning out to do.

I have moved them all to my newest PC and would like to get rid of the duplicates. Two questions

1. What is the best way to do this and is there software to do this in an organized manner. I could copy them all to the same location and if there already a duplicate not copy it. But this seems like there is a lot of risk and time associated with this.

2. What are the recommended photo organization software programs to allow me to tag photos by people, events, date so I can put them in some resemblance of order other than renaming files. Using file meta data or auto recognition of people would be great but not required

Most of the files will be JPEG. After this task, will be scanning boxes my father slides that go back to the '50s.

Any help or direction is most welcome.