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The real question being, of course, given that your life is finite ... how often will you actually look at any of these pics. The more pix there are, the less

The real question being, of course, given that your life is finite ... how often will you actually look at any of these pics. The more pix there are, the less likely it is you'll ever even open any of these.

tablespoon 5y ago
> The real question being, of course, given that your life is finite ... how often will you actually look at any of these pics. > The more pix there are, the less likely it is you'll ever even open any of these. Well, there are also future generations to think about, but their interest will fall off too (until you reach the genealogical profile level, which maxes out at a few portrait-type pictures of any regular individual). It's pretty essential to aggressively curate and organize data like this.
- sliken 5y ago
  Dunno, tagging seems worth it, deleting not so much. Storage is getting cheaper ever year. I've looked through a many albums from parents, grand parents, and great grand parents. I hope that my pictures make it that far, but seems like the world needs a "free" (except for storage/bandwidth) photo backup service to have any chance of surviving multiple generations.
  - tablespoon 5y ago
    > Dunno, tagging seems worth it, deleting not so much. Storage is getting cheaper ever year. The way I think about it is that you need relatively small "SAVE THIS" drive/disc. Sure, storage is getting cheaper, but you don't want to burden someone with some massive storage array, and you can't count on whatever software you used to tag to still work in someone else's hands.
    - sliken 5y ago
      Dunno, can you guess what will be important to the next generation? 2 generations? 3? You might play a small part of important events, people, etc that will not be realized later. Even silly things like the first robin of the season, or a picture at the pool on the hottest day of the year.
charcircuit 5y ago
For me it's the case that I'll need something from my archive. But I don't know what I'll need, so I just store it all. I may only actually need a few files, but I don't know which few.

tablespoon 5y ago

> The real question being, of course, given that your life is finite ... how often will you actually look at any of these pics. > The more pix there are, the less likely it is you'll ever even open any of these. Well, there are also future generations to think about, but their interest will fall off too (until you reach the genealogical profile level, which maxes out at a few portrait-type pictures of any regular individual). It's pretty essential to aggressively curate and organize data like this.

sliken 5y ago
Dunno, tagging seems worth it, deleting not so much. Storage is getting cheaper ever year. I've looked through a many albums from parents, grand parents, and great grand parents. I hope that my pictures make it that far, but seems like the world needs a "free" (except for storage/bandwidth) photo backup service to have any chance of surviving multiple generations.
- tablespoon 5y ago
  > Dunno, tagging seems worth it, deleting not so much. Storage is getting cheaper ever year. The way I think about it is that you need relatively small "SAVE THIS" drive/disc. Sure, storage is getting cheaper, but you don't want to burden someone with some massive storage array, and you can't count on whatever software you used to tag to still work in someone else's hands.
  - sliken 5y ago
    Dunno, can you guess what will be important to the next generation? 2 generations? 3? You might play a small part of important events, people, etc that will not be realized later. Even silly things like the first robin of the season, or a picture at the pool on the hottest day of the year.

charcircuit 5y ago

For me it's the case that I'll need something from my archive. But I don't know what I'll need, so I just store it all. I may only actually need a few files, but I don't know which few.