Did you know that Lightroom might be eating up your computer’s hard drive space, without your knowledge? I didn’t. I kept wondering why my computer hard drive was always full. Eventually I stumbled onto Lightroom being the culprit. Lightroom works by uploading the photos that you import to your Adobe
Today’s hard drive market offers numerous options, so it can be confusing to ensure you’re making the best decision to meet your needs. There are several factors to consider, including performance and price. However, your first action should be to decide between a traditional hard disk drive (HDD) or a
When you’re using a 3-2-1 backup strategy for your photos, choosing the right cloud storage for the all-important off-site copy is a critical decision. I chose wrong for several years, and paid the price. There are two main categories of cloud storage you can use to backup your photos: two-way
As a wedding photographer, losing a client’s photos before I can deliver them gives me nightmares. When you consider the time, effort, and let’s face it, money, that goes into a wedding day, and the fact that the photos I take are the only record of that for prosperity, then
Recently I wrote about how my Lightroom catalog is full and gave an overview of the process you can follow to migrate your catalog out of Lightroom and into Lightroom Classic. This frees up the cloud storage of your Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, while still maintaining the database of edits
Last year I started using Lightroom on my mobile phone. As a longtime Lightroom Classic enthusiast, I started using Lightroom for the portability: I love being able to edit photos on my phone or tablet, without needing to be at my desktop computer. However, as I’ve written about before, there
Backups or backing up means to make a copy of your data (documents, photos, videos, etc.) and store that copy someplace. Traditionally that would be copied to a single or series of hard drives. The potential problem with storing it on one or more hard drives is that one of
It’s September 28th, 2007, around 1:00 am. My wife was gently sighing in her sleep in our luxurious Masai Mara safari camp tent. I was in charge of downloading and backing up the compact flash cards from our Nikon D200s. Even at 10.2 Megapixels per image, those old CF cards
