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> my 565GB photo library I always wonder what people do with these photos. For me photos are utilitarian. I take a photo and immediately send it to my wife or
by coldpie 2mo ago
> my 565GB photo library
I always wonder what people do with these photos. For me photos are utilitarian. I take a photo and immediately send it to my wife or friend, or upload it to my website for an article, or post it on Instagram or whatever, and then I no longer have any use for the photo on my devices. Once a year or so whenever my storage gets full, I just bulk-delete anything older than 6 months and if it hasn't been saved elsewhere for a specific purpose, then it's just gone forever. I don't miss it, because I already did what I wanted with it, so there's no need for me to keep it around.
What do you actually do with half a terabyte of photos?
- inanutshellus 2mo agoI was the same til I had kids. Now I'm trapped just like most everyone else. Every photo is just "okay" in the moment but .. five years later the difference is so big. 99.999% of these "precious" photos are dumped in a hole and never looked at again. It feels silly to bother keeping it when I know I'm not going to sift through it. All those hour-long videos of little-tyke sporting events shot from a million miles away... hahaha... still can't delete'm.
- a10c 2mo agoI am the designated family photographer. Many of those are raw files (30MB each), so admittedly a portion of them will never be seen again. Storage is cheap though, especially local storage I don't pay a cloud subscription for, so it hasn't bothered me. And as the other child comment mentions, my rate of photo production has increased exponentially since having kids.
- 2III7 2mo ago> What do you actually do with half a terabyte of photos? Reminisce when you get old(er). Especially if you have children.