The current discussion on Computer Related has prompted this. It relates to what is the best way to backup thousands of photos from the PC.
Re photos - my dad has thousands of photos and the family were going to invest in a scanner thingy to scan them all into PC. Was going to be expensive and laborious process but we were astonished that my dad said not to bother.
Realistically he was never actually going to sit down and view them all and as a family we agreed that we probably wouldn't either. It would become the equivalent of the famila china teaset that would get handed down from generation to generation with everyone not wanting to be the one that didn't hand it over but no one would actually look at them or use them. Maybe one photo would be used for a funeral order of service and that would be it!
When I see old photos of grandparents etc they are interesting but probably because they are so rare and so few of them. But in my case, I upload photos with a folder name of that date and they are all filed chronologically. And because they are free and digital there may be tens of photos taken that date that, well you don't really need to delete any so you just save them all.
Maybe I should start a separate file for one off photos that a future grandchild or someone may find interesting rather than a thousand photos of a dog splashing in the sea, a landscape, a strange car?
How do you file yours?
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