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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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How do you organise 18,500 images on a hard drive? (alien.top)

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Hello 👋

I'm feeling overwhelmed by the amount of work I created for my-self, my files are a mess.

How much time you spend just sorting and cleaning all you images?
Do you have the same folder structure for all you storage locations? (hard drives, cloud,...)
How many files do you have?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How do you organize 18,500 images on a hard drive?

Folder name: YYYY.MM.DD [Event Name] AB

The main copy is in my main external SSD. 1 copy backup in the backup external HDD, 1 Zipped backup in OneDrive.

Due to slow internet back then and in the case of the FAT32 system, I split every folder to 3,XX GB. So the "AB" is 01 02 03 for a large event. Like my wedding with >200 GB of photos and videos.