![]() On Windows you may get at least some preview of the images which are inside the folders.įrom here, I continue in the desktop application TagSpaces Lite. So for now everything looks pretty standard, at least on Ubuntu and macOS. Windows Explorer or Mac Finder), where the default sorting is usually by name. This way my folders will be chronologically sorted once they are opened in a file manager (e.g. 20210930 for 30th of September 2021) in the front of the folder name has a practical reason. Putting the current date in ISO format (e.g. The misc in the name tells me that this folder contains miscellaneous images, since the grouped photos are already moved out of there. After I am done with this, I rename the folder from Camera_20210929 to something like 20210929 S10 Misc. So after coping the folder with the last photos from my phone, I open this folder with a regular file manager and separate photos from different events in separate folders. Optionally, at the end, I put two characters which are the code of the country where the photos were taken. The next few words are short description of the event or the place, then I usually put the name of the camera/phone with which the photos are taken. For example 20210517 Birthday Party XY S10 DE or 20210814 Hiking Alps Tirol S10 AT, where the first 8 digits represent the date (or the last date) when the photos were taken. The names of the next level of folders contain basic information for the photos in there. In the Photos folder on my PC the first level of sub folders represent the years. In this case you have to know which was your last copied photo or video. IOS users: Once connected to your computer, the folder with the photos will be in read-only mode, so you are not able to change folder names. Once connected to my Linux laptop it looks like this: On Android, which is the operating system of my current smartphone, the photos are saved in the internal memory of the phone (or on a SD-card) in a path which usually looks like this /storage/emulatated/0/DCIM. Since I am not using a Cloud sync service, I am copying on a regular basis the photos from the phone to my computer because I want to store all the photos I shoot on my phone. During the years I‘ve had a lot of cameras, and I still own a DSLR, but my main source of photos now is my smartphone. Especially of my kids, trying to capture how they grow up in front of my eyes. Not that I don't like how the Photos app presents my pictures, but the lack of obvious alternative for doing this on a Mac is still an issue. In addition, in the Apple/iOS case, the most frustrating thing for me is that the photos are hidden in some cryptic file structure, which can be edited only with the Apple's Photo app. The main point is not the price but the fact that my photos will be stored in the Cloud, which as we all know is a fancy word for someone else’s computers, with his terms of use and limitations. Once you have so much data on a cloud system you may encounter vendor locking issues when trying to move your files from the cloud service. ![]() ![]() ![]() It doesn’t look like much, but with the size of the photos and especially with 4k videos you can easily reach the 50 GB, and then you will need the next plan. 1 € per month (Google's current price is 2 € per month for 100 GB). ![]() The cheapest iCloud plan of 50 GB of space costs you ca. I suspect that the storage space taken after pressing the shutter button on the latest iPhone is even larger. The photo came out at the whooping 15 MB, 5 MB for the picture and 10 MB for the movie, which was automatically created before the actual taking of the photo. Recently I took a picture of my son with the iPad. Although these solutions are convenient, they cost you money and the ownership of your data in the long run. Google and Apple for example sync all your photos on their own respective cloud services - Google Drive and iCloud. Most of the smartphone companies offer some way to store and organize your photos. ![]()
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