2010/07/21 18:16 I was taking a break from the behind the scenes work for Tattoo Hollywood when I decided to look through the photos that I almost lost. I have a back up of my photos from my first Iphoto library which contain images from 2000-2008 but I don't think I have one from the second library which has photos ranging from 2007-2010. Luckily all of the photos were recovered and they've been backed up. This is what I thought was pretty interesting:
Iphoto Library #1 2000-2008: 11,610 images = 22.89GB
Iphoto Library #4 2007- Present: 8,772 images = 33.22GB
Iphoto Library #3 BME Tour Australia: 4,022 images = 28.67GB
It's kind of amazing how much technology has changed. When photo from your digital camera at 640x480 were "huge" files and they still looked crappy. The data cards were in MB and having a 32MB card was hot shit. Though depending on the camera, you could only fit like 12 photos on the card! Now you can take a photo that's bigger than can be displayed on your monitor without scrolling and it's crisp and sharp and a less than 100Kb. SD cards come in 64 GB! That's bigger than the HD of my first laptop!
I haven't checked in to see what the video storage looks like but I know between Australia and Japan, I have filled up at least 8-10TB from all the video that was shot. That doesn't include the copies and back ups that have been made of that footage but it's great that the cost of storage has gone down to where it's almost trivial.
I would love to know what caused my drive to crash. I still don't know. The drive can be cloned but it can't be mounted to be accessed as a target drive or anything like that. They didn't tell me if it was a hardware thing or anything. I mean the drive obviously works because it was cloned without anything special being done. There weren't any weird noises or anything. I'm pretty sure it wasn't something software related since I hadn't done any updates or anything like that. I guess I just want to know if it was something about the way that I was using it so that I don't do that again!
I have to get the battery replaced on my old 15 inch MBP so that I can sell it to a friend who wants it. This will be the 4th battery that's been replaced on it. Apple said it must be in the way that I'm using it, which is killing the battery but there is no possible way that is the case. The last battery I got for it was just before we left for Australia so that Megan would have a laptop to use. That battery is no longer holding a charge for more than 15 minutes and it won't go above 68% when it's plugged in. That 68% equates to approximately 15 minutes of usage, if I'm lucky.
I've got to find the time to put all of my data back on my laptop though. It's been a pain in the ass looking for stuff. I'd copy it all over but things have kind of gotten into a bit of a mess so I'd rather not just drag it all over.
I love when I start writing a diary entry and then get distracted and start working on something else only to realize I had forgotten to finish the diary entry 2-3 hours later.
My best friend and I were talking about this and he said what I would call either the dumbest or one of the funniest things he's ever said.
"I prefer printing my photos to be safe because they don't degrade as much as digital ones do." I looked at him with what he described as a look of disgust, horror, confusion, sadness and wonderment, all in one. As it turns out, he had been in a debate with someone who said they preferred to have their photos printed out for longevity because they felt that digital photos degraded faster. W. T. F.? Really?
I forgot what else I was going to post about because I got distracted. Oh well! I hope everyone is having a great day.
