Yeah GPS can be useful but I usually keep it off - I’m probably a bit OCD with regards my photos. All are downloaded, catalogued (across devices - phone and dedicated cameras) and then ordered by date and place/occasion on a weekly/monthly basis - used to let Lightroom do this for me but abandoned it after Adobe started playing silly games. Now it’s an automatic transfer and rename run that extracts exif date and time with manually inputted location (which also double as a folder name). Finding people can be applied later (algos). Only issue I have is I never have access to my past photos on my phone. Everything goes into triple-backed local storage and never to the cloud. Yes I’m a bit precious with my personal photography 😅
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Also explains why my phone photo library is literally just memes 😂
That is OCD. 😅
Let’s hope all this categorization comes in handy.
It really is useful as everything is on the MacBook. Very ordered. Easy to find things. Takes a bit of discipline though. Backup is via Carbon Copy Cloner on an automated weekly schedule to three separate SSD drives.
I think I get it. You don’t upload your photos to a cloud service. So you do your own periodic backups to a manual raid like setup.
Yep, never upload to a third-party cloud service unless I don’t care about the photo going public. Initial transfer from camera/iphone to MacBook involves a renaming run based on exif. (Use a simple app called ExifRenamer). So basically photo files are renamed:
YYYYMMDD_hhmmss_filename.filetype
End result is:
20241225_234104_DSC_123.jpg
I sometimes also include a location in the file name like “Italy trip”.
I then file these images into specific folders named by date and general location as below and then automatically backup/duplicate periodically to SSD drives. Not raided; just three separate drives. Each containing a mirror copy. 