[Leica] It's all your fault

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Jim,
So have I - and. I change hard drives every 2-3 years, in a phased manner,
as well. The cost of data storage is really low nowadays as well, the icing
on the cake!

Cheers
Jayanand


On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
wrote:

> 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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