Advice on Where to Keep My LR Photos
Earlier today I posted a question about moving my photos that I use with LR from an external drive to my computer's internal hard drive. Thinking was that this would then allow me to use the external drive for backup (which today I'm doing with DVDs).
But now I'm wondering if I should just leave the photos on the current external drive, and get a second drive for backup purposes (they've gotten pretty cheap), rather than introducing the photo files onto the computer's drive. The internal drive is 250gb, and isn't particularly full, but I'm just thinking that over time it may make more sense to leave that capacity free of NEF files, and keep them (and the backups) on external drives.
If I get second external drive, is it crazy to get a portable drive that can be kept out of the house, away from the "main" drive with all the "originals" on it?
Any thoughts here?
Also, what is the recommended number of pictures (if there is one) to limit a single catalog to?
Thanks.
Having over 1TeraByte of files, all I can say is that you MUST keep an offsite copy that you update regularly. If your hard drive crashes (and it eventually will), you want a backup SOMEWHERE.
I bought a 1TB external drive for $280 just last week... small change if I consider the amount of data involved and the sense of security that it provides. You can keep it at a friends house, your office, your rental storage, your safety deposit box, anywhere but the same location. At that point it becomes a simple backup issue, having nothing to do with LR.
Here is what I recommend that you do:
a) 'master' drives to keep your originals and your LR catalog backups.
b) 'backup' drives as needed to keep copies of your 'originals' drives
c) 'LR drive' to keep your catalogs and previews.
The biggest advantage to a separate LR drive is that you can easily move the catalog from one computer to another, something that is ridiculously complicated to keep organized if you are not keeping your catalog on an external drive. Also, you can take your whole catalog with you if needed... I am writing this at the Denver airport (coming back from a photo job) with LR running off a USB drive hooked up to my laptop... when I get home I will just move the originals to the 'originals' drive and point LR on this USB drive to the correct new location, and point the backup to the originals drive also.
How many catalogs?
Personally I think that putting all of your eggs in one basket is insane... I organize catalogs by general subject... it is much easier to keeping all the photos in one place when it comes to finding stuff.
Similar Messages
-
Advice on where to keep photos
Besides using Time Machine, do most folks backup their photos elsewhere?
Since photos take up a lot of hard drive space, do most users store their photos on an external drive, or do they just use their computer's hard drive, and get more storage space or a bigger hard drive if needed?
I moved all my photos to a flash drive, and am finding that it takes forever to access the photos from there.My Library lives on my Imac
It's backed up to two other hard drives every day - one by Time Machine, one by Carbon Copy Cloner
I keep a portable hard drive in my Car. That gets backed up to whenever I add new photos to the Library.
In a relatives house across town I keep another HD with the Library on it. That gets baked up twice a year - I'll be doing that chore this weekend. -
I have always paid for apps with a credit card and now need to use an app store card but I can't get past the point where it keeps wanting my credit card updated. And can't used the app card number. Any advice???
I do NOT like using my credit card if I don't have to, and I went out of my way to go buy an Apple gift card, which I successfully redeemed into my Apple account. However, when I use the Apple "Cards" app, it will not let me use anything other than my credit card. I tried purchasing a card, hopefulling it would come out of my Apple store balance, but no such luck -- it came out of my credit card.
Apple is becoming more like Microsoft every day. -
can anyone help me get all of my edited holiday video visible again? my mac upgraded itself from iPhoto where i keep my imported video and photos, to "photo" now all of my current project (and probably old ones as well! ) are showing media offline. how can i get this back seeing the clips on 'photo'?
When you open a project you need to point PPro to the new media location and relink
>mac upgraded itself from iPhoto
THAT is not good... I am Windows, but at least a Windows update gives ME the option of unchecking an update -
How or where do I retrieve my photos after upgrading to ios5
How or where can I retrieve my photos from as they have disappeared after upgrading to ios5
Your photos should be backed up on your computer's hard drive, and that hard drive should be backed up to another medium. If you have a camera, you don't keep all your photos in it, do you?
-
Aperture keeps restoring deleted photos
Hi there pros,
I need some help, partly because my problem is nongooglable as it seems..
My Aperture keeps restoring photos that I've already deleted! It happens when I have to restore the database. But since I had the problem before I made sure that NOTHING had a below-zero-star-rating (I don't know the english word, sorry), NOTHING was in the Aperture trash, and NOTHING was in the MacOS X Trash.
So where does Aperture get those photos from?!? I don't know what I find more annoying: that I have to sight them all again and decide from the beginning which photo I want to keep, or that those pictures might somewhere occupy disc space.
now, when I google something like the topicname, I only get results about people wanting to restore their accidentally deleted photos. Apparently that is the more common question. Nevertheless, mine is really annoying too!!
Has anybody come across this problem? ANY idea what could help? Because I have no idea, with what I could even start trying..
thanks in advance!
Mario
PS: by the way, aperture is on the latest version, mavericks too.So where does Aperture get those photos from?!? I don't know what I find more annoying: that I have to sight them all again and decide from the beginning which photo I want to keep, or that those pictures might somewhere occupy disc space.
The "recovered items" you find after the Aperture library or iPhoto library has been repaid or rebuild, is a collection of orphaned images, that have been found in the photo library and are not linked to any image version. These orphans can be created by several problems:
If you use an external editor and accidentally use "Save as" instead of "Save". Then you will write files into the library, that Aperture cannot access.
When the connection between the image version and the original file gets broken; this can happen for several reasons, for example, when you access the files inside the library from other applications or another user account, or the library is stored on an incorrectly formatted disk, or your disk has bad blocks, or similar.
Permission problems with your Aperture trash or system trash. Sometimes it can happen, that original files that should be trashed, cannot be removed from the library. If you open your library in iPhoto, you may be caught by the bug, that the originals will not be deleted, if you merged its event with a different event before emptying the Trash.
Could any of these reasons apply in your case? Check carefully, if the originals in the Recovered Items are really redundant, if they are apparently duplicates of photos you want to keep. I'd export them to keep a backup before deleting them.
It happens when I have to restore the database.
Do you mean, when you restore the database from a backup, or is this a typo and you meant "repair or rebuild"? -
When I went to download some pics (originally taken with my iphone 4S) from my computer back to my iPhone I got the following error message: "iTunes will no longer sync photos to the iPhone "Peter's iPhone". Do you want to keep or remove photos previosly synced to your iPhone?"
Coincidentally, my wife just purchased an iPhone 4S and syncs to iTunes on the same computer.
Any ideas?
PeterThe "best" way to handle it, if you want to keep everything separate, is to create separate user accounts on the computer. make sure you log into your account on the computer before you attempt to sync your phone and log out when you're done using the computer.
Though it's possible to sync both of them to the same iTunes library, and even share an account for the iTunes store, you're inviting confusion and possible data loss (as you've discovered already). Best to just use separate user accounts on the computer. That also gives you the benefit of not polluting the other persons browser favorites, contacts, etc. -
Can I create separate folders to save media on my Airport Time Capsule? Issue is I have a 256GB HDD Mac Pro Retina which is almost full. TC will only take backup of my HDD. So where would I save my photos and videos from my iPhone and iPad?
It is a hard one.. laptops with small drives are a pain.
What you need is a home media server.
Some people use a PC running itunes for cost.. but that is nothing like as good as using a Mac mini.. they make great little HTPC device.. you can plug in large hard disks and store all your files and media. And share it with the network.. Read up apple's instructions on home sharing.
https://www.apple.com/au/support/homesharing/
For cost you can buy a mini from 2011 or 2012.. I would not recommend earlier ones.. the advantage of 2012 is they have USB3 ports. But you will pay more for them.. new mini is not as useful.. they have soldered in memory and you cannot upgrade.. the old mini was the most easily modified mac in the whole range. Uses little power and can be bought for a $300US for a good one second hand.. maybe less. -
the iphone goes from recovery mode to some other mode where it keeps restarting with apple logo flashing on the screen continuously. and there is no error in itunes at all which stays in "waiting for iphone" status
Hi there yaswanthfromcumbum,
You may find the troubleshooting steps in the article below helpful.
If you can't update or restore your iOS device
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1808
-Griff W. -
I have 3 i phones. Can I have multiple accounts on one computer where it keeps the contacta and calendar for each?
My daughter and I both have iphones. I created an account (not separate itunes) for her on my computer so she could sync her phone/itunes but not have it interfere with mine since we have WAY different taste in music. Creating a different computer profile should work if you have separate itunes accounts, too.
If you all use the same itunes account, you can turn on Home Sharing. That way you can all download the same content without having to pay for it again. Not sure how or if that works with separate itunes accounts.
Hope that helps! -
How can I keep my RAW photo files from converting to JPEG???
How can I keep my RAW photo files from converting to JPEG???
Hello briggiebunny
If iTunes can read the movie files, then you will need to create an iPad version by going to the drop down menu File > Create New Version > Create iPad or Apple TV Version and then syncing that newly created file.
iTunes: Videos may be unable to sync to iPhone, iPad, or iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1497
Regards,
-Norm G. -
After I snync with iTunes my iPad Calendar is not updated from my computer where I keep my dates in Abacus. It used to do this.
Follow the instructions of tt2 in: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5822086
-
I have finally figured out how to export an iphoto album so that I can maintain the proper order of the photos after burning the file. How do I keep each individual photo title and description after exporting and burning? Presently after exporting and burning each photo is identified by the file name rather than each individual title description.
File name and Title are not the same thing.
Filename is attached to the Jpeg file in the Finder.
Title is attached to the photo within the Jpeg file - as is the description. These are written to the Exif and IPTC metadata on export.
So: File -> Export. Kind: Jpeg or Tiff and Check the box at 'Title and Keywords'. This will write the Title, keywords and descriptions (though not explicitly stated) to the metadata. This can then be viewed in any app that understand this material.
You can choose, if you wish, to also use the Title as a Filename - that's an option at File Name
Regards
TD -
I'm having a problem where Firefox keeps asking for my Amazon password, even though I tell Firefox NOT to remember this password. In Firefox options, Amazon is clearly listed as a site for which not to save passwords.
Do not use [[Clear Recent History]] to clear the "Site Preferences"
Clearing "Site Preferences" clears all exceptions for cookies, images, pop-up windows, software installation, and passwords. -
HP 8750 Paper-Size Problem where it keeps telling me the paper is too big (it's set up for 11x17)
I've got an HP 8750 printer running with a Windows 7 Ultimate machine, and I've got a paper-size problem where it keeps telling me the paper is too big. It's set up for 11 x 17.
The actual wording on the printer is:
Paper installed is larger than needed. Press cancel to replace with correct size, if you wish to save paper, or press check mark to continue.
When you press the check mark it feeds the paper, but for a multi page-document I have to press the check mark for each page to feed.
How do I get it to print 11 x 17 paper without having to press the check mark for each page?''guigs2 [[#answer-672422|said]]''
<blockquote>
NoScript stops cookies, please disable this addon/extension as well as make sure that the language en-us is installed.
# 1) Open up the Firefox Preferences tab. You can do this by typing about:preferences in the URL bar.
# 2) Click "Content"
# 3) Next to "Languages", click "Choose"
# 4) Select "English/United States [en-us]", click "Add"
# 5) re-open "about:accounts"
# 6) Click "Get Started"
</blockquote>
Thank you for replying. Unfortunately, I already did all of these things. As you can see from the below screenshot, the language is already set. Also, this screenshot was taken in Safe Mode, so NoScript is not enabled. About:accounts still says I need to enable cookies for some reason. So, this solution didn't work....
Maybe you are looking for
-
How can I change one color in design on a web site for exemple background : white to light-brown?
1. how can I change one color in design on a web site for exemple background : white to light-brown? 2. how can I edit visual bookmark on the beginning page?
-
I went to the Windows site and they sent me to the Nokia site. Nokia said it was a Verizon problem. Everyone seems to want to pass the buck. I suppose Verizon is going to blame it on either Nokia or Windows.
-
Adding Searx as default engine doesn't work
Hi Running Firefox 33.0 on Android 4.4.4, and tried to use http://searx.laquadrature.net/ as default search engine. Unfortunately, when I enter terms to be searched in the awesome bar, it always leads to the search home page of searx, but no term are
-
Hi Experts, I am executing CV04N for displaying Document list.When I click on Thumbnails, it is showing thumnail view of the documents. But when I click on Table(Shift+F4),or back button, it is showing Run time Error. The description is mentioned bel
-
Before and after image question.
Dear all, I have a similiar scenario below something i got off from previous post***** 1000 10 10 (new) 1000 10 8 (changed in the next day) then extractor will send like this. first load means when the entry is created in the source system. 1000 10 1