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yeah i seem to keep the raw on the computer and then move the raw and jpeg to the external...i suppose i'll just delete and know that i have two places the pictures can be found if i need them. Thanks for insight

Why delete? HDD are so cheap now. I have 2.5tb in my computer and a drobo that I back up to that I'm going to expand with a further 2tb drive sometime in January.

mosesport wrote in post #11523368
I only have my pictures on an external. I transfer all my stuff there directly off the card. I'm really weird about deleting my RAWs. I'm kind of a digital hoarder, I guess you could say. I feel like I may need them for some reason in the future, even though that's never been the case thus far.

I had a tough time with this, but I've been able to start deleting the RAWs. I keep some of them long-term, but in general I tune them, convert to JPEG, let the RAWs fester for a while on the drive, then blow them away, knowing I'll never need them again. I just don't want to have too much junk to have any hope of sifting through it down the road.

my laptop has 500gig of space...dont know if i can upgrade space on laptop. So i have 1 tara external and another 500 gig external

I keep everything. Well, let me rephrase that. I keep everything that is worth keeping since there are obviously some shots that have no merit whatsoever. In fact, I have duplicates of everything. All raws, all JPGs from the camera, and all edits. There's an active library that exists on my main computer and then a backup of all of that on an external drive.

I'm a bit of a digital packrat myself, but IMO there's no reason not to be since data is so incredibly cheap. You can pick up a 1 TB drive for little more than 50 bucks these days. Granted, I think you still need to be somewhat selective and not keep every single image regardless, but you can store thousands of even raw files very cheaply.

yeah i havent edited raw files yet.. im going to install the canon software and adobe photoshop elements 9 as my wife bought it for me.... and maybe look at editing raw files... then will keep it all.... the non OOF or garbage pics...

i have a dedicated server running windows home server.. has 500gb...500gb... 1tb... 1.5tb.. eventually to get swapped over to 4 x 2tb drives... plenty of space for future.. just need a way to manage it...

Hi all!

New T2i owner and new to photography. This forum is unreal! There is some awesome talent here! I can't wait to get more clicks under my belt and learn from you all.

Attached is a pic of my cat after sampling my new Canon. I need to get a few accessories, so I'm off to look around for a good photo shop to purchase items from.

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Looks like we here in the forum got lots of new friends for Christmas! Welcome all, and thanks for sharing your "early" shots. Looks like you know what you are doing.
On the harddrive/backup issue, I'm with Marubozo. I bought a 2 TB backup drive for 100 bucks recently, and so have one copy on my harddrive and one backed up. I have had harddrives crash, and about 6 weeks ago I had a computer stolen. Once all your stuff is GONE you'll be kicking the crap out of yourself going "why didn't I back up?? so much lost, and so cheap to keep copies--Booo Hoooo Hooo, etc."
Telefragger, just starting to work with RAW files? Wow! You're in for a treat--and an angry wife. You can end up burning a lot of hours reworking photos. You're likely to find a lot of "diamonds in the megapixels."

Mookalafalas wrote in post #11524130
Telefragger, just starting to work with RAW files? Wow! You're in for a treat--and an angry wife. You can end up burning a lot of hours reworking photos. You're likely to find a lot of "diamonds in the megapixels."

that is what lunch hr is for... i dont take one now... but expect too!!!!!!!

No backup plan is complete without some off-site element, of course. It's all very well having external hard drives but if someone breaks into your house, they'll probably grab the along with the computer. And if you have a fire then they're all lost.

As well as having most of my decent images on Flickr, I also sync my aperture library to my iDisk and I have an external drive that I leave at work with everything backed up on it. So i'm pretty well covered. If only my photos were as good as my backup plan...

Lots of snow overnight - went to the national assembly after my 8am class and took a lot of pictures - am waiting for camera to warm up and then will do some PP and post here.

I just got back from five wonderful days at Disney World.

This is the Italian Expo at Epcot. Wife and kids, worn out (but my wife knows what to do: Hot German wine).

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Mike I really like the second one - makes me want to go there. Also like the old Asian guy with the camera - is it attached to a monopod?

Only had time to work on two images - got an emergency client job to work on now.

Anyhow 7am the alley behind my apartment building

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nothing special just showing a bit of the after math from the yesterdays blizzard.. i hate this weather

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