I have been tidying up my hard drive as I have photos in a chaotic order and am finding files of photos I haven't seen for ages. I am pretty sure I have posted this one previously, but still love it. Taken back in 2023.
Interesting to read that you are organising your photos. Great minds and all that. I have just today bought a bigger external hard drive to try and bring everything together. I have smaller back up drives but I want all my photos available in one place. I’m interestef in hos you organise your phots.
@omabluebird Thanks @ankers70 Hi, I had them all over the place, harddrive, couple of external drives, online etc and different lightroom catalogues, it was doing my head in esp with the uni work. I initially went back and tried to use Bridge to tidy and sort but didn't quite like the feel of it. Went back to lightroom, moved all my lightroom files into one catalouge and am moving my files via that catalouge onto one external drive for photos and one external for video. This is where I am at present, just sorting into years, getting rid of duplications and culling like a mad woman. I am not sure how I will move forward from here just yet, but I think I will end up with Lightroom in Yearly catalouges - A family catalouges and mabye a Favourites Cat? and then work it out from there. As well keeping a backup on a seperate drive as well. Leaves my harddrive free to work at it's best. I got slack in culling on the day, it's biting me now, lol.
Thanks for answering so fully. Keeping the photo library under control is a huge issue and I like to hear about how other people manage their photos.
I don't use the Lightroom cataloguing system although I process in Lightroom Classic. I have my own hierarchical cataloguing system, sorted chronologically by year and by subject. Like you, I try and keep my Mac free and because I take it with me travelling I don't like to have too much on it. I take a small portable back up when I am travelling.
Trouble is I have lost track of what's on what back up even though I have tried to keep the labelling under control. Now I am trying to put everything on one drive so that I can go to that and have everything there.
I have separate Family, Travel and Old Family Pics amongst others.
I do wonder sometimes whether I have enough years in my life to do all this cataloguing and sorting properly!!
Beautiful image of strip farming. Are those animals or birds in the photo? Lightroom classic with one catalog, metadata and keywording keeps me organized with one large external drive and the cloud for storing the originals.
@ankers70 No probs, it can be frustrating, and as @dkellogg said, the keywords/metadata in Lightoom classic make life easy for searching. @ludwigsdiana Thanks @joansmor Cheers @briaan Thanks @dkellogg Thanks, they are sheep. I was pretty far away, but had to stop and take a shot. I think it’s a wheat? paddock that’s been harvested, not sure. @joemuli 🙂
Great shot BTW and i haven’t seen it before
@ankers70 Hi, I had them all over the place, harddrive, couple of external drives, online etc and different lightroom catalogues, it was doing my head in esp with the uni work. I initially went back and tried to use Bridge to tidy and sort but didn't quite like the feel of it. Went back to lightroom, moved all my lightroom files into one catalouge and am moving my files via that catalouge onto one external drive for photos and one external for video. This is where I am at present, just sorting into years, getting rid of duplications and culling like a mad woman. I am not sure how I will move forward from here just yet, but I think I will end up with Lightroom in Yearly catalouges - A family catalouges and mabye a Favourites Cat? and then work it out from there. As well keeping a backup on a seperate drive as well. Leaves my harddrive free to work at it's best. I got slack in culling on the day, it's biting me now, lol.
I don't use the Lightroom cataloguing system although I process in Lightroom Classic. I have my own hierarchical cataloguing system, sorted chronologically by year and by subject. Like you, I try and keep my Mac free and because I take it with me travelling I don't like to have too much on it. I take a small portable back up when I am travelling.
Trouble is I have lost track of what's on what back up even though I have tried to keep the labelling under control. Now I am trying to put everything on one drive so that I can go to that and have everything there.
I have separate Family, Travel and Old Family Pics amongst others.
I do wonder sometimes whether I have enough years in my life to do all this cataloguing and sorting properly!!
@ludwigsdiana Thanks
@joansmor Cheers
@briaan Thanks
@dkellogg Thanks, they are sheep. I was pretty far away, but had to stop and take a shot. I think it’s a wheat? paddock that’s been harvested, not sure.
@joemuli 🙂