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This post may fall in the category of what you might call ‘mundane.’ It doesn’t have the creative thrill of a new and exciting photograph. It’s more under the category of ‘Things-I-Should-Do-But-Haven’t-Gotten-Around-To-Them-Yet.” Actually, this is really under the category of “Making-My-Life-Easier.” So, what is this all about?
This post may fall in the category of what you might call ‘mundane.’ It doesn’t have the creative thrill of a new and exciting photograph. It’s more under the category of ‘Things-I-Should-Do-But-Haven’t-Gotten-Around-To-Them-Yet.” Actually, this is really under the category of “Making-My-Life-Easier.” So, what is this all about?
Continue reading “Mastering Lightroom – When You Get Back Home”
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The backup strategy I’ve been developing over the past year got put to the test. And it worked.
Backing up our photos is something we put off doing because it can be a lot of work and expensive. And we think it’s something we’ll never need.
I got motivated to come up with a backup scheme about a year ago when I thought I had lost all my photograph files from 2010. I had several days of panic and was able to recover most of them from a hodgepodge of backups scattered randomly here and there. I didn’t have anything systematic in place and fortunately they weren’t my portfolio files, the ones I sell. (After it was all over I discovered all the files had inadvertently been moved to another folder. They hadn’t been deleted after all.)
It took a while to come up with the backup strategy that I shared with you in a post last month. Here’s a link to that post. Check it out. I received some valuable comments with some good ideas from others.
Continue reading “The Backup Saga Continues”
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Presenting a solution for backing up your iimportant photo files while also being able to share them between computers.
Some time ago I thought I had lost a year’s worth of RAW files. I was using Photoshop Bridge which I rarely use (I use Lightroom to manage my photos) and it had inadvertently moved the folder when I thought the folder was deleted. It took a couple of days to find copies of all the supposedly deleted files, only to find a week or so later that they were all still there, just in a different location.
That launched an ongoing effort to come up with a better backup strategy. The solution is still evolving but it’s to a point where it’s worth sharing with you.
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