>> Culling is an important part of the photographic process. It is indeed important, but it is hard. I was a pack rat until about last year. I think I must ha

>> Culling is an important part of the photographic process. It is indeed important, but it is hard. I was a pack rat until about last year. I think I must have culled about 50% of my library's images, and then I converted whatever remaining RAW files I had to JPEG, which shrunk it to about a third of its original size. I realized there was no point in keeping the RAWs after I did my post -- I'm not that serious a photographer, and I was never going to revisit the images for editing again. Of course, every person has their own requirements -- I'm only speaking for myself. I also tried to be my own harshest critic, and each image had to meet only -one- of two criteria: 1- Am I be willing to print it and display it? 2- Do I have a strong emotional connection to the photo? (this is how a lot of less-than-perfect images survived the cull) These days, I spend more time culling after a day of shooting than I do in post on my keepers. More often than not, I will delete up to 80% of my shots in a day, and a lot of the deleted shots are perfectly fine. >> There has got to be a better/easier solution than even this process. My own process is relatively simple - I point Crashplan to three targets: the cloud, a mapped drive (NAS) and a local drive that's designated for backup only. I also periodically burn my library to BluRay discs (thankfully my library is now small enough to fit on 2x50GB discs). I also intend to use Google Photos, but just haven't found the time to do it yet.