Photos and no more Hard Drive Space. The Struggle is real.

A little Longer than normal blog and it is sort of about photos, stay with me.

So here is the Story during a photo excursion to northern Ohio (Magee Marsh, Ottawa Wild Life Refuge), and I was taking a lot more pictures than usual and had not taken a good look at my hard drive recently for space. Now the system is only about a year old. But the HD is only a 500GB. I was on the 3rd day of our 5 day excursion and had a 64GB Compact flash about 2/3rds full and unable to down load them. So panic mode!

I had one extra CF card and 2 SD cards. So I knew I could still shoot but I don’t like having photos in only one place! What if a card fails and I Loose a really good shot or in the case of that trip many good photos.

So here is where some preparation saved me! So at home I had everything I have taken for the last Year and half (except for a week or 2) on 2 separate external hard drives. One in my house an one at my son’s. I also had a cloud back up that was current up to the day before my HD filled up. I took a leap of faith and deleted every photo from my computer’s HD from 2020 and I was able to finish the shoot from our photo trek. Plus several photos from a trip to see my family in WI. Then I get home an now it is doing it again. I have ordered 2 new external SSD HDs that are bigger and faster than the ones I have now and should hold me for a couple years…. I hope!

But for now until the new HDs come in I am kind of stuck! I have moved everything accept a couple months of photos to my bigger Hard Drive am currently backing up everything to cloud from it. It is sloooooow. Come on new HDs.

Until the next time.

The Redleg Photographer.