Sandyjas
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Hi!
Not sure which board to post this to? I’m transfering again to backup Lightroom. It is not a Lightroom question.
I have a Nikon D800E camera and an iMac desktop running 10.8.4. I’m still on LR 5, but that does not come into play with this question. I have various external hard drives, bought around 2013. One of the portables has all my photos that are on, or going to be on Lightroom. They are all, also, identically backed up on another external hard drive. I want to copy all my photos to another external hard drive (4TB) besides. I know there are now newer drives with more space available than 4TB, but I still haven’t used any on this one. It was bought for this. I don’t know if I should buy a new drive for this transfer or depend on the older 4TB. I got the 4TB about 2015. It is either Western Digital or Seagate and is not solid state. None of my drives has ever failed. I know that the easy way is just drag or copy and paste the top level folder with all my photos from my main portable drive to the 4TB drive and wait. I’m the leery kind. Since my computer has never failed to work for me, but always has felt light and finicky, not solidly professional, I guess. I baby it. I don’t do too much at once and let it rest for a time before I shut it down. I never keep it plugged in. My external hard drives have never failed to work. I worry about file corruption when transferring. I as yet don’t want to go to the trouble of checksums. I prefer to use no external hard drive software. I just usually drag or paste. I use no third party backup software. I use Time Machine. And these photos are not in Time Machine. So to move them I can not verify anything, as I think ChronoSync does. I have ChronoSync but never got on to using it. I will be transferring (or copying) from the portable drive through the computer to the 4TB drive. Causes of photo file corruption? File corruption causes could be in either drive or the computer, right? This does not happen very much? Right? I need your advice or suggestions on this. Would it be safer to slow all this down and rather than transfer the top level folder to the 4TB drive and let nature take it's course, I would make an identical folder tree in the 4TB and then transfer all my photos into this tree, folder by folder? Or split the difference and transfer them in by the year subfolders? I have a top level folder, then year subfolders, then lastly all the photo folders belonging to that year under that. I know this is what computers are for, to compute! But, as I said, mine works fine, but never has felt solid. I have 8GB of RAM. If you need anything else ask and I will get back. My D800E NEFs lately have been 74MB, but they were mostly around 40MB. I have some smaller Tif and Jpeg files from the D800E mixed in too. Maybe one half of the photos being transferred are from my D100 camera and some of those were Tiffs at about 17MB each and some Nefs smaller than that. I’m up to 223 photo folders total at approx. 70 – 120 files in each. This is a one time endeavor and nothing else with the computer is going to be running (background?) while I am transferring – no matter how I do it. I’ve thought of not doing it at all – I have two copies. But if one EX HD fails, I have one copy, and is that okay? I feel safer with three. I have no saves of these photos anywhere else. I don’t trust the Cloud and have not had the time to burn any to optical disk for the D800E. I know that you can not say for sure what will happen, but maybe an educated suggestion. (I know one time in a past discussing about checksums I asked why the checksums wouldn’t be as prone to corruption as the photo files, and it was said that the checksums themselves would probably be less prone to corruption than the photo file. I never forgot.) These photos have never been copied anywhere else, except my D100 photos are on CDs. Would it be in a safer area if I transferred the photo folders, folder by folder, no matter how long it takes? My pictures are very important to me. My number of D800E photos are growing. I feel I have to cover this. What do you think, or suggest or who else I could I contact?
Thank You Very Much for all the help or idea or suggestion on this,
Sandy
Not sure which board to post this to? I’m transfering again to backup Lightroom. It is not a Lightroom question.
I have a Nikon D800E camera and an iMac desktop running 10.8.4. I’m still on LR 5, but that does not come into play with this question. I have various external hard drives, bought around 2013. One of the portables has all my photos that are on, or going to be on Lightroom. They are all, also, identically backed up on another external hard drive. I want to copy all my photos to another external hard drive (4TB) besides. I know there are now newer drives with more space available than 4TB, but I still haven’t used any on this one. It was bought for this. I don’t know if I should buy a new drive for this transfer or depend on the older 4TB. I got the 4TB about 2015. It is either Western Digital or Seagate and is not solid state. None of my drives has ever failed. I know that the easy way is just drag or copy and paste the top level folder with all my photos from my main portable drive to the 4TB drive and wait. I’m the leery kind. Since my computer has never failed to work for me, but always has felt light and finicky, not solidly professional, I guess. I baby it. I don’t do too much at once and let it rest for a time before I shut it down. I never keep it plugged in. My external hard drives have never failed to work. I worry about file corruption when transferring. I as yet don’t want to go to the trouble of checksums. I prefer to use no external hard drive software. I just usually drag or paste. I use no third party backup software. I use Time Machine. And these photos are not in Time Machine. So to move them I can not verify anything, as I think ChronoSync does. I have ChronoSync but never got on to using it. I will be transferring (or copying) from the portable drive through the computer to the 4TB drive. Causes of photo file corruption? File corruption causes could be in either drive or the computer, right? This does not happen very much? Right? I need your advice or suggestions on this. Would it be safer to slow all this down and rather than transfer the top level folder to the 4TB drive and let nature take it's course, I would make an identical folder tree in the 4TB and then transfer all my photos into this tree, folder by folder? Or split the difference and transfer them in by the year subfolders? I have a top level folder, then year subfolders, then lastly all the photo folders belonging to that year under that. I know this is what computers are for, to compute! But, as I said, mine works fine, but never has felt solid. I have 8GB of RAM. If you need anything else ask and I will get back. My D800E NEFs lately have been 74MB, but they were mostly around 40MB. I have some smaller Tif and Jpeg files from the D800E mixed in too. Maybe one half of the photos being transferred are from my D100 camera and some of those were Tiffs at about 17MB each and some Nefs smaller than that. I’m up to 223 photo folders total at approx. 70 – 120 files in each. This is a one time endeavor and nothing else with the computer is going to be running (background?) while I am transferring – no matter how I do it. I’ve thought of not doing it at all – I have two copies. But if one EX HD fails, I have one copy, and is that okay? I feel safer with three. I have no saves of these photos anywhere else. I don’t trust the Cloud and have not had the time to burn any to optical disk for the D800E. I know that you can not say for sure what will happen, but maybe an educated suggestion. (I know one time in a past discussing about checksums I asked why the checksums wouldn’t be as prone to corruption as the photo files, and it was said that the checksums themselves would probably be less prone to corruption than the photo file. I never forgot.) These photos have never been copied anywhere else, except my D100 photos are on CDs. Would it be in a safer area if I transferred the photo folders, folder by folder, no matter how long it takes? My pictures are very important to me. My number of D800E photos are growing. I feel I have to cover this. What do you think, or suggest or who else I could I contact?
Thank You Very Much for all the help or idea or suggestion on this,
Sandy