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How to back-up photos on 2 external hard drives and retain photo creation date?
As shown in the set-up diagram below, I would like to offload photos from an external hard drive A to external hard drive B so that if one fails, they're not all lost, since all moved photos aren't ...
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Cross-Platform Photo Management Workflow - from Smart-Phone/PC to Storage to Print
I am looking for a simple photography workflow. I want as much automation as possible to handle synchronization, organization, editing, and printing.
I am willing to put in more work upfront so ...
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Why do copies of the same photo have slightly different file sizes?
I've been pulling my hair out at this task, which seems insurmountable. I have spent a lot of time consolidating all my past storage drives, and then doing it again, and now discover I have many ...
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How do I restore Lightroom photo metadata from a backup?
Yesterday I ran a bunch of my photos through exiftool in order to change their lens information. (I shoot some lenses on adapters and so the lens names and focal lengths have to be set manually.)
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Best way to move photos to another drive (Lightroom)?
My wife uses Lightroom for her Photography business. Her main drive is filling up and I installed another drive into our Mac Pro to be used as an archive. She has groups of files (Weddings, since ...
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How can I select photos that are deleted in the working set from a backup?
I have a set of photos that I have backed up in two different locations. So I have three sets in total.
In my working set, I deleted the photos that I deemed not good enough to keep. I actually ...