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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.
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TKay 1y ago

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.

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jamw 1y ago

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.

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TKay 1y ago

I’m impressed.

Bravo 👏

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jamw 1y ago

Admittedly Lightroom and its catalog system made this very easy (long time user) but got fed up with subscribing to Adobe and its privacy policy tweaks. So now it’s a bit more manual and use Photomator instead for photo correction/raw development etc.