A Kondo Of A Job

on May 13, 2021
My recent RAID system failure and recovery has proved to be more of a boon than I expected. Not to the bank account - this is boonless most of the time - but to the image collection as such. Because it caused me to review what was sitting there. Some people are on top of their images through careful catalog work - assigning stars and ratings, organising collections, typing in key words, etc. All the computer program texts go into this in great detail even before they teach you how to spoil the colours. I have tried to make my way through the literature but always lost the will to live after half a chapter. As a result I have adopted the practice of named folders containing named folders, and then depend upon my ability to intrigue myself later with odd titles. Mostly it works. I can go to "cars" and see every car show I have attended - further foldered into years if it was a regular thing. At first glance it seems quite regimented. So I thought until I casually opened an interstate hot rod show folder and found I'd preserved RAW data, large jpegs, and small jpegs for quite a big event. You may think this normal practice, but consider the fact that the only use that those images got in a decade of digital storage was as small jpegs in one of my weblog columns. An enormous amount of storage space just sat there and churned from disc to disc to no purpose. Well, Kondo says that if something doesn't give utility or joy in six months it goes out... I considered the fact that the small jpeg files were useful and joyous, so I kept them. The other files were dead weight and went. A great number of folders joined them. I've still kept weddings, glamour, and portrait shots as RAW and derivative - I cannot say when someone will want another image from them. But they have been hived off to further distant storage. The new RAID system has a much lighter task to do in the future. Now to do the same with the mound of excess and leftover accessories and other equipment that fills the camera closet. Not sure if I want to risk the shoulder-rubbing of the camera market just yet, but I can at least sweep the shelves into a potential sales pile and benefit from the open vistas. Why, if I get enough together to sell, I can open a shop in Stirling Street... all I need are window shutters and a coffee machine. And hand sanitiser.
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