I promise to add some photos to this blog just as soon as I can. However, this week has been ‘delete’ week. I realised that 120 000 images was just too much and that, at 1.4 TB, it would cost me a fortune to store it in the cloud.
Phase 1 was a big weed, deleting 8000+ images that I would never have looked at again. That did take a very long time.
Phase 2 (Lightbulb moment) If I just removed all the photos taken pre-2018 from Lightroom Classic – they would still be on my drive. The way lightroom mobile works- it could still see them even if Classic could not. This was an almost instant process. In about two hours, my catalogue was down to 60 000 images, still a lot but manageable.
When I return to Dawlish, I will ‘migrate’ my Classic Catalogue (the new thin version) to Lightroom.
So, for the next few weeks, I will be using Lightroom on my ipad to store and process images, rather than struggle with cataloguing. What a relief!
And just to prove there has been some sun this week...
