{"id":5240,"date":"2016-12-09T19:51:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T19:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.elliottfamily.ca\/?p=5240"},"modified":"2016-12-09T19:51:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T19:51:30","slug":"photo-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lee.elliottfamily.ca\/?p=5240","title":{"rendered":"Photo Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many others I have a <strong>LOT<\/strong> of digital photos.  Somewhere around 782GB and 158,738 files.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.elliottfamily.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/photos.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"5241\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.lee.elliottfamily.ca\/?attachment_id=5241\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.lee.elliottfamily.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/photos.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1442,326\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"photos\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/www.lee.elliottfamily.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/photos-300x68.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.lee.elliottfamily.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/photos-1024x232.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.elliottfamily.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/photos.jpg\" alt=\"photos\" width=\"1442\" height=\"326\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5241\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lee.elliottfamily.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/photos.jpg 1442w, http:\/\/www.lee.elliottfamily.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/photos-300x68.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lee.elliottfamily.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/photos-768x174.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.lee.elliottfamily.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/photos-1024x232.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1442px) 100vw, 1442px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe difficult part is that they are not all stored on my computer.  If they were I could use Apple Photos or even better Picasa from Google. Both are really good photo management tools, Picasa being superior, but they are of no use if you don&#8217;t keep everything on your computer.  I have a Synology Diskstation set up that allows me to back all my photos up and sync with a cloud storage tool, in my case Dropbox.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/why-i-ditched-photo-management-apps-and-use-dropbox-ins-1063233673\" target=\"_blank\">article by Adam Dachis<\/a> on LifeHacker convinced me to not use any of the tools but just use Dropbox. I&#8217;ve set it up now, and while it does take some effort to go through the past photos, the monthly backups are quite easy.<\/p>\n<p>Give it a try if you have a lot of photos that are not simply on your computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many others I have a LOT of digital photos. Somewhere around 782GB and 158,738 files. 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Both are really good photo management tools, Picasa being superior, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Photo Management - My musings<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.elliottfamily.ca\/?p=5240\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Photo Management - My musings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Like so many others I have a LOT of digital photos. 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