I’m starting the process of moving over to my new computer (and website) all of my “stuff” that’s in various places…flickr, google, blogger, my hard drive…. One thing that’s clear is that I’m not very good at “file management.”
That’s 561 GB of things in my “Photos” folder alone, never mind the videos or some stray photos in other places. Ugh.
I started my photo file collection with my first digital camera (I think it was an Olympus D-450 Zoom) in the late 1990s–that feat of camera engineering created 1 megapixel photos. I had some film photos developed here and there that led to similarly-sized scans. I upgraded to a later Olympus C-4000 Zoom that had 4 mp-sized photos. Then, in 2006, I got my first digital SLR: an Olympus E-500. I started shooting tons of photos (with resulting 8-mp files) and never looked back. Never organized those files and never deleted them, either!
Over the years, I’ve added new DSLR cameras, point-and-shoot digitals, film cameras, phone cameras, and scanners to my arsenal. And here we are, 20 years and 560 gigabytes later. This might not be a quick project.