Operation: Deep Clean!

Monday, April 28, 2008

Man, do I ever have a lot of junk. And not just physical junk, digital junk!! I've been slowly going through my computer and deleting old programs and files I don't use anymore. Right now my 100 gig hard drive is pretty much full. Yep. Full. Of crap. A lot of that is music, but much much more is photos. 28 gigs of photos to be exact. Yep, I'm "that guy" who takes tons and tons of photos.

Well, I have found one (okay, two) solutions! I was at a scrapbooking party last night (sounds so.... momish of me haha), which was hosted by a woman working for a company called Creative Memories, and while right now I'm not big on the actual process of scrapbooking, I am big on some of the software that they offer. While I was tempted to buy many (soooo many) things, I ended up buying software called "Memory Manager 2.0" from the company. It works basically like a database where you can store, tag, search for and basically sort your pictures. It does some other fun things as well, like add stories to pictures and make mock-scrapbook pages, but it was the database part that really interessted me.

The thing for me, is that I have all my photos into folders. They are named things like "Camping trip 2006" or "Europe 2007" or even "Nikon Testing Photos April 12, 2008". But, for example, I'll have photos of the Eiffel Tower in "Europe Trip 07" as well as "Europe Trip 08", so if I wanted to look at all my Eiffel Tower Photos, I would have to manually sort through all the pictures. With this software, I can digitally put photos in several different "drop-boxes", so for example, all the photos of the Eiffel Tower would be in a box called Eiffel Tower, but most likely, also in boxes labelled "Paris", "France", and "Vacations". I am very much looking forward to this.

Right now, I just have one obstacle in my way: the massive amount of photos I have.

So, for right now, I'm sorting photos. So. Many. Photos. I tend to keep every photo I take, which isn't neccesary. For example, I was hanging out in my room on Tuesday and I saw a bunch of robins outside my window on the front lawn. I pushed open my window, grabbed my camera and shot some pictures. 98 pictures later.... and I still have them all. There is probably only 5 - 10 worth keeping, and that's my bad for not sorting them out.

So, ladies and gentlement, it's sorting time!

4 comments:

QL girl said...

Sounds very useful! If I may ask...how much was it?

Leanna said...

It was $41.95 I think. If you buy it directly off their website (a download), that's theprice you pay. If you want a hard copy you'd have to pay for $8 shipping, which sucks. I just downloaded it and will burn it onto my own CD later. So far it's a lot of fun!

Leanna said...

It was $41.95 I think. If you buy it directly off their website (a download), that's theprice you pay. If you want a hard copy you'd have to pay for $8 shipping, which sucks. I just downloaded it and will burn it onto my own CD later. So far it's a lot of fun!

FB @ FabulouslyBroke.com said...

I have digital junk too
So when I bought my 1TB, I made sure to make proper folders first for everything before scanning in photos and documents

Now I just scan in what pics I want to keep and chuck the rest.... It's so liberating