I think I may have a data hoarding problem. That is, in regards to iNat stuff, I shoot a lot and I am starting to have some trouble keeping my picture collection storage size under control. Not that I am currently super-worried about this, but I have noticed that in the nearly 3 months I’ve been o…

I’m one of top identifiers and I don’t see what you’re trying to say here, not sure if others will actually agree on that, change in 1% of size doesn’t make object unrecognizable. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/106941578 If anything, if you mention iders, it worth mentioning that people s…

[image] marina_gorbunova: creating two files of different size is too much and creating small one means you won’t have a normal one when you need it [image] marina_gorbunova: If anything, if you mention iders, it worth mentioning that people should do more cropping if their file is too la…

I take a similar approach to @tiwane and @lappelbaum and prune my photos. I use the iNat app for interacting and once they’re in the iNat cloud, they’re off my phone forever. Maybe with higher quality cameras and the workflow of photograph, transfer, edit, and upload, it lends itself to “someday…” …

Because the servers have to be constantly running in order for your files to be available whenever you want them. If you save your files at home on external hard drive you can put them away when you don’t need them. And of course turn your computer off (or hibernate) when you aren’t using it.

I’ve heard rumors that the bearings may go bad just sitting there. Do you power up the drives and read all the data back ocassionally so that the drive’s error correction can do it’s job and fix any minor storage problems that could have developed while drive was sitting there? Hopefully someone who…

[image] vreinkymov: Maybe with higher quality cameras and the workflow of photograph, transfer, edit, and upload, it lends itself to “someday…” thinking: Unfortunately early on with digital photography (2004) I didn’t think about the future and resized my photos so they would fit my computer …

I don’t store any photos online just in case google locks my account and destroys my life because they misread the word ‘insect’ when they scan my stuff. :upside_down_face:

[image] vreinkymov: One solution? Use a 5-year (1-year, 1-month, etc.) rule. If you haven’t had to go back to the data for that long, it’s not worth keeping and the odds of needing anything that old may be outweighed by the effort of managing the data. Would still enjoy hearing about counter-ex…

I’m still digging up slides and early digital photos I took more than 10 or 20 years ago that I submit to INaturalist. Some I can’t pin down to a precise location but many I can.

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Sure, I use them to check things, so far no errors were ever found by the system, I had problems with internal disk many years ago, but not these.

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