Present Your Todays  

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  Media Management

Organize Digital Media to Locate Cherished Memories 

Do you know where  all your digital media is?......  

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• Stuck on your phone?

• Maybe in the Pictures folder on your laptop?

• What about the computers you had before that?   

• How about SD cards stuck  in  drawers or no long used digital cameras.

• CDs.... remember those!!??

• Somewhere on the world wide web?

 

Do you need help?...

 

• Overwhelmed  by today's digital technology?

• Concerned about not being a able to locate your favorite photos or losing them altogether?

• Have you ever backed-up your photos?​

Locate

Checklist to determine  where  digital media is located:

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Digital Media Locations:

•  In the cloud - Dropbox, Photo storage apps -  Google, Apple, Amazon,  OneDrive Flickr  

• Stored on  Individual Devices -  computers, tablets or smartphones

• Uploaded to on-line sites,  or storage media such as USB flash drives or SD disks. 

• On Social Media sites

• Saved  on various  external storage media: CDs, DVDs, SSD drives, USB flash drives, SD cards  and scandisks

Consolidate​ 

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•  Digital photos & videos from across multiple devices, storage media and online locations.

• Merge   digitized older photos  and videos in a consistent archive

• De-clutter - delete

  •  duplicates, 

  • very similar 

  • out-of-focus and other poor images

  • unidentifiable scenery

  • other  unwanted image files

Library

• Sort  photo and video files  in separate folders organized in chronologically labelled folders at the top level

• Sort further in sub-folders  to further catalog by time period, events and people. 

• Highlight the best images  in 'favorite' sub-folders Set-up tagging system for easier search

• Back up  of  whole library (at least two locations) to External Hard Drive and cloud locations

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• Connect with Photo  Storage Apps

• Mirror with  smartphone &  tablet generated media, synched to photo storage services, such as Google Photos

• Parallel with the different  Photo App  search architecture (facial recognition/ metatag),

•  Highlight the best images  in Photo App Albums

Media Library Maintenance Plan 

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• Simple regular 'housekeeping' plan  to keep  folder libraries  organized  and up-to-date 

• Regular back-up strategies to  keep the folder libraries  safe

• Simple regular 'housekeeping' plan  to keep  photo app libraries   a manageable size

• Monitor & implement  updated  photo  app features​