I know I’ll need to get to something that I won’t be able to access. Perhaps I’m simply getting older, but there are too many passwords for too many storage sources for this to be fun anymore.įrustration and anxiety sets in every time I leave the house with my laptop in hand. It’s all pretty discouraging.įor those files I have stored online, many times I have to “qualify” them with a password often deemed incorrect (aargh!).
There are some great images that I simply haven’t had the time to weed through and sort out. Some contain images taken twenty years ago that I didn’t transfer to my newest, latest, largest storage device. They have served as photo and file storage depots over the years. Recently, I counted more than a dozen hard drive carcasses stacked on shelves in my home office. If I haven’t uploaded all my images to one of several cloud storage systems I use, this exercise is over before it starts.Įven if I can access my desktop system, the chances are slim that all those pesky permissions doorstops will let me search all my drives remotely. Now multiply this dilemma by being away from home much of my life, armed only with a laptop and maybe a thumb drive or small USB pocket drive. I’ve been adding to this collection daily since the mid-1980s. It’s far from the tidy professional setup I would like it to be. Particularly when the photo I’m looking for was taken years ago and could be anywhere on my system. The operation is neither efficient nor pretty.
When I need to find a particular photo, I perform a pretty detailed metadata-based search spread over my multi-drive setup. Most of which are only loosely cataloged or organized too.
Image storageįor most of us, home is where we maintain massive drives full of images, both edited and unedited. In this article, I’ll show you why you should set up your own cloud system so you can access your image files all the time, and avoid monthly fees with commercial providers. If you’re anything like me, you have taken way more photos than you can access at any given time, especially if you’re away from your home system.
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