Re: saving digital photographs (OT?)
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 10:05:27PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
>
> I have around 4.5GB of photos from the past few years on my hard disk. I
> have all of these as albums in digikam. I am thinking of saving these on
> to a DVD and freeing up the space from my hard disk. I was wondering of
> anyone has any suggestions on how best to do this. Should I just dump
> the directories (that correspoond to each album in digikam) on to the
> DVD? Should I include the .db files as well which are presumably used by
> digikam? Or is there any other option which I do not know about yet?
>
> My idea is just to dump the directories. But if there is a tool which
> includes a photo browser as well such that a user can just put the DVD
> into an optical drive and start browsing the pictures using that tool
> something - like PicutreCD - that would be great too (though most OSes
> have a picture browser built in nowadays). The tool may be java based to
> be cross platform.
>
> Can't be more specifid, just looking for input actually about a better
> option than dumping the directories straight to the DVD ... i.e. if such
> an option exists.
>
> ->HS
>
I am also using digikam to display my photos. The photos occupy
~6.6GB. If you put your 4.5GB on DVD, you are asking for trouble as
soon as your photo library gets >4.7GB (pretty soon now ? ).
I know that this comment may not seem useful or to the point, but for
~$100 I recently purchased a 250GB drive from Western Digital. You
could add such a drive to your system and stop worrying about saving
disk space. I don't worry. In fact, it was only to be able to quote a
disk usage number in this letter, that I ran du on my photo library.
I think you will also have better data security for your photos on HD
than on DVD. If you worry about accidental deletion, mark the whole
thing read-only, keep an extra copy, etc.
--
Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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