Wits end

Harriers9 · Sunday at 9:09 PM

I'm trying to grab more space back on my PC and thought I'd start with sticking my Raws (.cr2) onto the cloud. I'm going back to the start of my Raw saves from 2012 and I'm now up to Dec 2015. Problem is the total of those is 11 folders, 6039 files and a total of 115GB. I have another 10 years worth to go and many of those will be (.cr3) Raws weighing in at a lot more.

What and where the hell am I going to put them bearing the most free of cost I can find are the usuals (Drive, Dropbox etc) that will only accept 10GB before charging. I did look at Terabox that will give me 1TB free but I have to check in every couple of weeks or they get deleted. I just want a send and forget basically.

I don't want to go to the local backup discs route because I already have 3 of those and they're getting full too.

Any ideas

Phil V · Monday at 10:51 PM

Amazon?
free photo storage w Prime

so for £90 a yr, free nxt day delivery, TV and movies, special offers and photo storage thrown in

Jakey_Boy · 2025-02-04T00:08:33+0000

If you have MS365 subscription it comes with 1TB OneDrive storage.

Jake

ancient_mariner · 2025-02-04T10:05:55+0000

Cloud storage is fine if you have just a few files, but for photographers with multiple terabytes of data it's a poor option because of the speeds/long transfer times. Local discs are the right answer, with a duplicate stored offsite.

Dave Canon · 2025-02-04T10:13:09+0000

Do you store all of your raw files or do you delete those not needed. I typically delete about half of what I capture. For birds in flight and some sports I delete an even higher percentage but a much lower percentage of studio work etc.

Dave

Harriers9 · 2025-02-04T17:24:08+0000

Dave Canon said:
Do you store all of your raw files or do you delete those not needed. I typically delete about half of what I capture. For birds in flight and some sports I delete an even higher percentage but a much lower percentage of studio work etc.

Dave

I have and that's the problem. It would take years to go through them all deciding which to keep and which to not.

I've now ordered a 6TB WD external drive to put them on. Mainly because when I moved them out of my Pictures folder on (D : ) and put them on the desktop the new folders all went onto the 250GB (C : ) (the desktop defaulting to that drive and no way to change it) and that was reserved for my system files and stuff that won't go elsewhere but (C : ) A disc full warning came up and I couldn't move it all back, open anything or even shut down.

When the new drive comes I'll end my days sorting the crap out. In future I'll only keep the keepers.

ancient_mariner · 2025-02-04T18:16:06+0000

FWIW I bought a 12TB drive last year to consolidate my backups in one place.

Dave Canon · 2025-02-05T10:09:03+0000

Lack of discipline. When I upload my images to LR after a shoot, I always colour code, rate and keyword each image (LR is designed to support this) which includes marking for delete those not needed. immediately after, I delete those marked for delete.

Dave

Harriers9 · 2025-02-05T11:27:09+0000

Dave Canon said:
Lack of discipline. When I upload my images to LR after a shoot, I always colour code, rate and keyword each image (LR is designed to support this) which includes marking for delete those not needed. immediately after, I delete those marked for delete.

Dave

Now why didn't I think of that 20 years ago

Once I get this lot sorted then I'll work out a system for managing mine through PS Elements.