I've been much better with the backup process in recent months, making sure that a twice weekly backup was happening regularly. However my pictures folder is almost the same size as my current backup drive set, so it's a good job storage and USB hard drives from good vendors like LaCie are falling in price faster than I can fill up my ReadyNAS. I sense some more outlay on external USB hard drives is in the near future. Last weekend I somehow managed to walk round a zoo with the family and still come home with 320 RAW images.
Fortunately my current workflow makes it quite effective to cull from this little lot, but I'm on the edge of jumping from being an iVIEW / Expression Media user. To my mind Microsoft haven't got the point of iVIEW yet, and accordingly they haven't made it any better than when they bought the company. Problem is what else... i've discounted Aperture since I use both PC and MAC, and I'm not sure Lightroom is the answer either as I've got files on local hard disk and older ones on network shares but I want to have them all in my catalogue / collection. I fear that a task of synchronising all the keywords to my files is again on my to do list as the hunt for the replacement to iVIEW continues. Hit me with some comments and thoughts on alternatives, I only have a couple of requirements.
- Must be PC & MAC compatible
- Must be able to work with files in multiple drives and network shares
- Needs to be reliable and quick - i'm trusting my last 12 years of digital files to it
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One of the things that has always put me off managing my pictures properly is the migration issue for keywords. It's not that good keywording wouldn't be handy, but I have this phobia of labelling all my files then moving to another program which can't read the labels.
In theory IPTC tags should be the end of the matter, but even they don't seem to be handled consistently.
Lucky I use extremely verbose folder names really. :)
One of the things that always scared the hell out of me was writing to the original RAW files.
Since the manufacturers don't tend to give third parties the information on the file architecture, then writing to the RAW is a bit of an unknown.
I like the concept of the XMP sidecar files, just dislike that now you have to keep two files together.
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