This week I reduced the images in my LR down from 40,000 to 33,000 images

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Took me 2 days so far - so difficult as even posting them on here doesn't get rid of them:)

cleared 130GB of space

but I've still got 2 back up copies of all 40,000

must get "spray and pray" out of my mind!!

(I've probably got thousands of negatives still to scan - I get a dismal feeling when I look at the boxes full of past shots going back years)

what will happen to them when I'm gone!!
 
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some were obviously bad and some very bad - I started with those............
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Haha i really struggle to delete ... need to be more ruthless ... and i seem to store RAW too which i need to stop and get into the habit of deleting after i am done with a album
 
I just buy more hard drives... Each job gets a separate LR Catalogue unique to it contained in that job's master folder. That way if I move the master folder, the LR.Cat and all edits go with it.
 
Surely it is just self discipline. I always review, rate, colour code and keyword soon after a shoot. It is usually obvious which are the keepers, which are similar copies and which are faulty. I rate the keepers 4* meaning worth processing (possibly to enter in a competition), 5* only for exceptional (I don't have many of these) and 3* I will keep but may not bother to process. So definitely no point in keeping anything that would have scored less than 3*. When at a sports shoot I may take many frames to capture exactly what I want and that may be largely true for some nature shoots. Even in a studio situation, I tend to end up with too many shots; this can be because the model expects you to take a lot even when 2 or 3 would be enough.

Dave
 
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