[Leica] It's all your fault

[Jim Nichols]

Hi Jayanand,

Back in the early 1990s, I bought a new Compaq computer complete with a 
proprietary tape backup system, and used it with confidence.  Then, when 
I upgraded computers again, I found that the tape system was no longer 
supported.  Since then, I've relied on bare hard drives.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 5/12/2018 11:45 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> Jim,
> i, too, have only physical files and backups - altogether 5 sets of RAW +
> Prints in TIFF form. I need 4TB for each, so that is 8 TB per set for four
> sets, and an additional one on a NAS.
>
> I took Brian's meaning was being locked into a proprietary system, i.e. not
> being able to access the processed files if you exit their software. This
> can be a real problem - when I ran a business, we used to store our backups
> on HP tape drives in the early 1990s. For some reason, the Income Tax
> authorities wanted some details after 6 years. We found to our shock that
> neither did HP have a drive, but they had changed the software as well, so
> they could not help a client who had been using their cutting edge
> technology 6 years earlier!
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> I thought I was the only one who worked that way.  I suspect that LR is
>> busily stashing images away in a cloud, though I don't use it as an
>> indexing system, but all of my RAW images as well as my selected finished
>> images are on my hard drives and archive drives.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>> On 5/12/2018 11:06 PM, Christopher Crawford wrote:
>>
>>> I use the Adobe CC apps, and none of my work is stored in a proprietary
>>> system. Everything is in my computer and my archive hard drives. You don’t
>>> have to store images on Adobe’s cloud.
>>>
>>>
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