Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >