Old Photos
I found some old digital photos on my hard drive. I am bad at orginzing my data. There are documents in files all over my computer. I found the photos while I was trying to make space on the hard drive.
In this set of photos there are some old work photos. I have about 100 MB of photos of cable boxes and cable box remotes. These photos are from 2000 & 2001. They are no longer useful to me in my job. I am not sure they were useful when I took them.
I am trying to decide if I should delete these photos or not. There is part of me that thinks that I should not delete any data, ever. There is no need for me to delete any undamaged file. Storage is so cheap that I should just burn all of my useless files onto disks in case I can use them somehow in the future. Who knows, maybe I can do something cool with my photos of Jerrold cable boxes.
The problem comes in managing these photos. If I put them on a disk for the future, I still have to figure out what to do with them sometime in the future. I have to develop a way to look through these files that is meaningful. I might have that in the future, but I do not have that now. Maybe I should just delete the photos and be done with it.
What do my photo-freak friends out there do? Do you keep every photo you ever take or keep tight control and only keep the good ones?
In this set of photos there are some old work photos. I have about 100 MB of photos of cable boxes and cable box remotes. These photos are from 2000 & 2001. They are no longer useful to me in my job. I am not sure they were useful when I took them.
I am trying to decide if I should delete these photos or not. There is part of me that thinks that I should not delete any data, ever. There is no need for me to delete any undamaged file. Storage is so cheap that I should just burn all of my useless files onto disks in case I can use them somehow in the future. Who knows, maybe I can do something cool with my photos of Jerrold cable boxes.
The problem comes in managing these photos. If I put them on a disk for the future, I still have to figure out what to do with them sometime in the future. I have to develop a way to look through these files that is meaningful. I might have that in the future, but I do not have that now. Maybe I should just delete the photos and be done with it.
What do my photo-freak friends out there do? Do you keep every photo you ever take or keep tight control and only keep the good ones?
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