[Digikam-users] How does one use digikam source for casual testing?

[Paul Waldo]

That's good if it works for you, but keep in mind that if image corruption occurs at the right place in your workflow, you still have problems.  You are taking a corrupted image and copying it to multiple external drives and distributing it to your family.  You may be able to reconstruct some form of the original from the edited image you keep, but it's not the "negative".

Paul

----- "jdd" <jdd at dodin.org> wrote:

> Paul Waldo wrote:
> 
>   My backups only live for
> > six months, so I'm out of luck.
> 
> bad backups.
> 
> I hold three live copies of my images:
> 
> * raw ones. (not raw files, I use only jpeg, but unmodified ones, from
> 
> the camera)
> * edited ones (mostly with digikam)
> 
> *published ones (on web sites). In fact I have two copies of these, 
> one locally, one on the website
> 
> time to time I write a dvd. say any time I do a big shot. the two kind
> 
> of images (edited and unedited) I keep these dvd ad vitam eternam (not
> 
> very large). I always make full dvd, so I have on any new dvd the new
> 
> shots + all the old ones fitting the dvd.
> 
> right now (in fact two weeks ago), I copied my photo collection to a 
> USB Hard drive (backed by an other usb hard drive, with all my other 
> archives)
> 
> given I also send dvd's to the family, and my web hosting is a hosted
> 
> computer, I hope not to lose too many photos.
> 
> ... also, I only remove the images from the flash card when the card 
> is full, an other copie, then
> 
> and with all this I still happen to lose some photos: for exemple, 
> once, after a backup on disk, I ended with two sets of... zero length
> 
> files. Never understood why the original was also zero, suspect some 
> sort of loop, writing the files on themselves.
> 
> but it's very unfrequent.
> 
> and don't forget: as soon as a new medium come, copy on it (for me 
> dvd-> USB drive, and when bluray begin to be cheap dvd->bluray)
> 
> jdd
> 
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