Ugh. I have so many photos on my iPad. That number was taken AFTER I deleted about 500 today.
As a self-appointed Document-or, I have tons of photos from the church renovation that I am hanging onto ‘just in case’, even though several of them are safely stored in a Flickr account or YouTube videos. (The problem is that I’m not sure which ones are saved, and it would be a huge pain to find out.) I also have an embarrassingly large number of video clips from when the kittens were little. I should just make a YouTube video for me and then delete them, but again – the time.
What is bringing on the big deleting crunch is that I need to make a photo-related keepsake for each of my students sometime during the next month. That involves scrolling through all those tiny little thumbnails and sorting them. Today I made it through three kids before my eyes started to implode.
I did not plan this whole photo-thing out very well. Rats.
Brad says
I remember when how many digital photos I could keep was determined by my computer’s memory. I was constantly deleting. Now I don’t even bother. Put the old pictures in a folder, then put the folder in another folder -- problem solved. Of course, I never have to go through old pictures for any reason like you do.
I wonder if there is software that would search your photos for you. You could open up a picture of someone and tell it to find all other pictures of that person.
Lauren says
iPhoto has a facial recognition feature, but it needs to see a front-facing person to be relatively accurate. It thinks all the pictures of Lloyd and his male relatives are the same person.
Beth says
I’m thinking the Lloyd-and-his-male-relatives thing is not entirely untrue.
Jill says
From the pics I’ve seen on here, I agree. 🙂
Peggy says
Haha!
And good luck with all your pictures Lauren! Dang, it’s hard for me to imagine that many.