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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)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

similar situation a while back. I spent a couple month off an on, tagging all the photos to easily find in either shotwell or digikam. they're all in the same folder and new photos get tags as they get added. I took the tag approach because you can add pretty much an infinite number of tags to each photo. did that instead of trying to figure out where photos with multiple people, etc.. should go in an organized folder structure without having duplicates