These Photo Organization Mistakes Cost Me Thousands of Memories
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Summary
The author used to store all of their photographs in one location and did not keep multiple copies of these, which led to them losing a lot of their photos when the storage device broke.
They used to organise photos in three folders: unedited, for photoshop retouching, and edited, but this became overwhelming, so they started to delete everything and start again to make searching for photographs easier.
The author used to keep photographs in just one file format, which caused problems when they wanted to sell some of their images.
They did not have a clear process for prioritising photographs, which led to them wasting time searching for the photographs they needed.
The author did not name photograph files properly, which made searching for the required photograph difficult.
They deleted photo-editing software, which resulted in them losing all of their pictures that were stored within the app.
They used to rely on the native photos app on their computer, which meant that all of their photographs would be deleted when they wiped their device.
The author did not organise photographs based on where they were going to use them, meaning that they had to manually search for photographs for specific uses.
