Organizing and Archiving Digital Photos

Learn how to efficiently manage and back up your ever-growing collections of digital photos.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Introduction to Data Protection

• The value of preserving personal media in the digital age
• HDD vs. SSD vs. Cloud
• The 3-2-1 philosophy for backing up images
• Whenever possible, automate
• The importance of testing your system

2. Ultralight Travel Backup

• Memory cards: The more the merrier
• Dual card slots in cameras
• Sending images from cameras to mobile devices
• Card readers for mobile devices and laptops
• Dropbox and Google Photos for mobile
• Lightroom mobile and Creative Cloud
• Photos for iOS and iCloud
• Clever work-arounds for mobile storage

3. Laptops and Desktops

• Freeing up space on your computer's internal drive
• A look at desktop external hard drives
• RAID 0 vs. RAID 1
• Options for portable SSD drives
• Backup options with Adobe Lightroom
• An approach for Capture One Pro users
• Tapping iCloud via Photos for macOS
• Managed catalogs vs. referenced catalogs
• Creating a Finder-based system for organizing

4. Archiving Strategies for Home and Office

• The difference between backing up and archiving
• Mortality rate for hard drives ten years old or more
• Strategies for prolonging the health of older hard drives
• Considerations for transferring content from older hard drives
• Naming conventions for your image folders
• Using search and browsers to find images
• Second location hard drives
• Integrating robust cloud services into your data safety net

5. Additional Things to Consider

• Making inkjet prints of your best work
• Helping family members protect their data as well
• Digitizing snapshots and archiving them
• What, if anything, should you delete?
• Who are these people?

Conclusion

• Goodbye and next steps