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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 10 months 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 10 months ago

Here is the thing: I don't trust cloud services to still exist in 40 years

Even open source ones, they are very complex and if the people maintaining it stop working on it, I'm doomed.

Is why I don't want a server to run.

I have seen people using Adobe Lightroom to do sort of what I'm looking for. But too expensive.

As a DataHorder, by using those servers you are talking about, are you sure you will still have access to them in the future?