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| Thread ID: 82703 | 2007-09-05 05:22:00 | What Photo archiving software do you use? | bachelorno1 (6556) | Press F1 |
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| 588162 | 2007-09-05 05:22:00 | A recent Thread by NZhawk called Big Save piqued my interest in digital archiving. I want to archive my photos to a couple of different media (HDD, CD, DVD) and would like the archiving program to be able to display which disk(s) the photos are archived on. I had a bit of a play with Picasa, which can backup photos (and movies), but doesn't seem to archive them as such. Am I wrong? What do you use? Thanks |
bachelorno1 (6556) | ||
| 588163 | 2007-09-05 06:04:00 | How many images are you wanting to archive and what is your total file size? | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 588164 | 2007-09-05 06:52:00 | How many images are you wanting to archive and what is your total file size? A couple of thousand jpegs, totalling nearly 3GB, and expanding rapidly. Stored on a 1.6Ghz laptop with ~76OMB RAM, 40GBHDD running Windows XP Home;) and Ubuntu 7.04 P.S I'm curious about the new iPods, the announcement can't be far away. |
bachelorno1 (6556) | ||
| 588165 | 2007-09-05 06:55:00 | A couple of thousand jpegs, totalling nearly 3GB, and expanding rapidly. Stored on a 1.6Ghz laptop with ~76OMB RAM, 40GBHDD running Windows XP Home;) and Ubuntu 7.04 P.S I'm curious about the new iPods, the announcement can't be far away. Tomorrow 10am US Time. There will be a stream cast posted after the event as it is not being shown live. Apple's store will be closed during the event, and will open with a the new nanos and a new front page shortly after, while every news site on the web will have reports and every Mac site will be discussing the event. www.thinksecret.com Are your jpegs all named or just numbered jpeg1, jpeg2 etc? Possibly the easiest and fastest way would be to hook up to an external HD and use something like Access or Filemaker. there was actually a forum thread here yesterday talking about the same problem. As long as you practice good house keeping and label/date stamp all of your files and images you should have a problem keeping track of them. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 588166 | 2007-09-05 19:55:00 | At a recent Panasonic seminar the bloke giving the presentation was asked about archiving Photos and video. His response was backup to Hard Drive. He suggested a new hard drive with a 5 year warranty. Copy what you need onto it and put it away. Recheck it prior to the warranty expiring and replace as required. Other solutions of backup he said were Tape, CD/DVD but both have limited life span. I have slides, negatives and video tapes that I assume are slowly degrading over time so it did make me think about some sort of modern backup. I currently have backed up on 2 HDD's about 15Gb of my clients photos with it syncronising each time new ones come in (about 3-4 times a week). These also get backed up to DVD's as soon as I get enough new ones to fill a DVD. I would like to think that one day there will be a long time (forever) solution for backup but with technology changing all the time it might be a while. eg 20 years time will software/hardware be able to ready CD's, that is if the data on them has not faded away. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 588167 | 2007-09-05 21:28:00 | Just burn them to cd or dvd, as a videocd, or slideshow. That way you could view them on a cd, or dvd player. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 588168 | 2007-09-07 00:07:00 | All my digital negatives are stored in folders named like YYYYMMDD_EVENTNAME, all stored in a "Digital Negatives" folder. From then on I use Picasa to touch-up and organise my photos, and use Microsoft's SyncToy to back up all my photos onto an external HDD daily. I then use Microsoft's Backup utility to do incremental backups on the files on the external HDD once every month or so, and write the file to a DVD which is archived away from the house. Currently I have over 25GB of digital negatives :) |
davehartley (3487) | ||
| 588169 | 2007-09-07 01:59:00 | A big thank you to everyone who posted. Time to do some investigation into the suggestions. Cheers Cameron |
bachelorno1 (6556) | ||
| 588170 | 2007-09-07 20:41:00 | A big thank you to everyone who posted. Time to do some investigation into the suggestions. Cheers Cameron The external HD at $150 for 150 gigs needs looking at. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 588171 | 2007-09-07 23:43:00 | I'd go to DVD as a back up, and maybe something like esnips as a online back up? | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
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