I'm almost finished organizing over 40,000 photos with Adobe's Lightroom software. It's been a tedious process, but any future work should be a breeze. I was almost finished 2 weeks ago when my Maxtor One-Touch external hard drive decided it couldn't read several dozen photos. They were either 'corrupted' or an 'unreadable format.' Needless to say, I was more than a little annoyed. I lost about 20 photos that I had not backed up with a CD yet - let that be a lesson to me - so it could have been worse.
I moved all the photos back to the original hard drive and reformatted the Maxtor. Then I put them all back only to find the same problem happening again. Luckily, CompUSA (who is going out of business, by the way) took it back so I could get another. This time I went with the Seagate Free Agent Pro. I think I read somewhere that Maxtor and Seagate were actually the same company, but I didn't want to risk wasting another 2 weeks with the same style hard drive.
So, now the photos are all in place and I'm going back through the DVDs and CDs to make sure all the files are the same in both places. This is somewhat harder, as the removable media was organized differently when I burned it all.
Next on the agenda is adding metadata and rating all the better photos.
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