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> but I think the best strategy is to let loose of the idea that you _must_ keep _all_ those thousands of photos I feel the opposite, I keep everything (even 1

> but I think the best strategy is to let loose of the idea that you _must_ keep _all_ those thousands of photos I feel the opposite, I keep everything (even 1000s of screenshots) because managing it would be a higher workload than otherwise. Furthermore, even the worst photo of something insignificant can bring back vivid memories of the time and location. If I "pick" only the "big" moments all the other ones are lost. I have almost 30gb stored in Dropbox sorted by phone (I change phones a lot), every week or so I just click "import all" from my phone.

stevekemp 9y ago
I do a lot of photography, if I have a client for an hour, or I pay for a model I'd average 500 pictures in an hour. Of those I delete the obviously-terrible images, where the exposure was off, the person blinked, or had their mouth open in an awkward position as we were talking during the shooting process. The result of a good shoot is 20 images that are worth publishing, and a poor shoot might result in only 10. All my images are RAW (.CR2), so they're pretty large. Despite that keeping them all is the only approach I feel comfortable with. Backups are handled by archiving to a local NAS, and uploading offsite once per evening. I'm careful to ensure that when I import the images to my desktop system I don't erase the CF cards before I have that offsite copy uploaded (which sometimes takes a few days).
- wingerlang 9y ago
  I see, in this case the images aren't your personal life anyway so in this case I would agree.
Someone 9y ago
If "Synced to Dropbox" is all you do you may be only one inadvertent mouse drag or clip command away from deleting some photos. Yes, you can recover deleted files in Dropbox but to do that, you must know you deleted something, and then, what you deleted, or you must periodically check for deletions in the Dropbox UI. Also, Dropbox probably will happily sync files that were written with bit errors on your hard disk. Acceptable risk? I think so, but it means accepting some decent risk of losing photos. My point is that many people likely would be happier if they spent, say, two evenings a year watching past photos together with their loved ones than when they spend that time making (more) sure their collection stays perfect (and at thousands of photos a year, two evenings is _nothing_ if you want to make sure your archive is bit-for-bit safely stored and properly indexed so that it is reasonably easy to find photos on demand)
- wingerlang 9y ago
  Maybe, but I doubt this is an issue. When is the last time you accidentally deleted a file like this without knowing? I have accidentally deleted files before and if it is a significant amount (e.g. if I try to do bulk processing on some) Dropbox notifies you by email. I could easily duplicate my folder, or even triplicate it to minimise hard disk errors and not be near my Dropbox limit. However I poke around at pictures quite a lot and I don't think I've seen issues like this so I don't mind it. (I think they are also synced to Google Photos now that I think about it).

stevekemp 9y ago

I do a lot of photography, if I have a client for an hour, or I pay for a model I'd average 500 pictures in an hour. Of those I delete the obviously-terrible images, where the exposure was off, the person blinked, or had their mouth open in an awkward position as we were talking during the shooting process. The result of a good shoot is 20 images that are worth publishing, and a poor shoot might result in only 10. All my images are RAW (.CR2), so they're pretty large. Despite that keeping them all is the only approach I feel comfortable with. Backups are handled by archiving to a local NAS, and uploading offsite once per evening. I'm careful to ensure that when I import the images to my desktop system I don't erase the CF cards before I have that offsite copy uploaded (which sometimes takes a few days).

wingerlang 9y ago
I see, in this case the images aren't your personal life anyway so in this case I would agree.

Someone 9y ago

If "Synced to Dropbox" is all you do you may be only one inadvertent mouse drag or clip command away from deleting some photos. Yes, you can recover deleted files in Dropbox but to do that, you must know you deleted something, and then, what you deleted, or you must periodically check for deletions in the Dropbox UI. Also, Dropbox probably will happily sync files that were written with bit errors on your hard disk. Acceptable risk? I think so, but it means accepting some decent risk of losing photos. My point is that many people likely would be happier if they spent, say, two evenings a year watching past photos together with their loved ones than when they spend that time making (more) sure their collection stays perfect (and at thousands of photos a year, two evenings is _nothing_ if you want to make sure your archive is bit-for-bit safely stored and properly indexed so that it is reasonably easy to find photos on demand)

wingerlang 9y ago
Maybe, but I doubt this is an issue. When is the last time you accidentally deleted a file like this without knowing? I have accidentally deleted files before and if it is a significant amount (e.g. if I try to do bulk processing on some) Dropbox notifies you by email. I could easily duplicate my folder, or even triplicate it to minimise hard disk errors and not be near my Dropbox limit. However I poke around at pictures quite a lot and I don't think I've seen issues like this so I don't mind it. (I think they are also synced to Google Photos now that I think about it).