This is a good project to do when you can initiate the move, then walk away from the computer and do something else for a while as it’s working. Moving photos from one location to another can take hours. Once I had chosen the location where I wanted to organize my photos (what the photo organizing pros call the “Digital Photo Hub”), I started the process of getting all of my photos from any devices or clouds onto my Glyph drive. So for me, the investment was well worth it. The Glyph drive was a bit pricey, but being able to have my photos all organized in one place will save me hours of searching. It has worked well for him, so I was confident that it would be a good choice for me as well. Donnie has used a Glyph drive for a while now to store his photos and documents. And they are else less likely to fail because there are no moving parts. Solid state drives are faster than hard drives that have a spinning disk in them. I decided to go with a Glyph 2 TB solid state drive (SSD) to hold my photos. This way, I would have room for all of my photos in one place and can work off the drive without having to re-download photos to my computer. So my next option was to use some sort of external hard drive that could hold all of my photos in one place. It was important to me to be able to use and access my photos without having to re-download them onto my computer. Using an External Hard Drive to Organize Photos There wasn’t enough space on my computer to store everything. But between my family photos and my blog photos, I had a TON. Ideally, I would have loved to bring all of my photos over to my laptop and organized them there. This helped me get an idea of everything that needed to be organized. Just like I like to take everything out of a space whenever I’m organizing physical items to see what I’m working with, I wanted to bring all of my photos together to one place. This is how I ended up organizing my family photo files– by year and then by month and event. (Think: those photos I whip out my phone to take whenever my kids are being cute!) I also wanted to have access to a collection of candid photos that represent our day-to-day life. I decided that I wanted to be able to easily look back on the major events of each year.
What was my ultimate goal? The way I wanted to be able to use my family photos in the future would determine how I would organize them. When it came to organizing my family photos, I had to begin with the end in mind. These are pictures of Donnie and I and our friends and family members from childhood all the way up through present day.įor the purpose of this post, I am going to focus on organizing the family photos, since those are what I think most people are working with. Then I also had a bunch of digital family photos. I have a ton of house photos from 7+ years of blogging that I wanted to organize in a way that made them easier to find. My situation was a little bit unique in that I had two different types of photos that I wanted to organize.
Part of the way through organizing my photos, I decided to purchase the Backup Bootcamp course from Miss Freddy to help me. For more information, see my disclosures here. I wanted to share the basic process I went through to get all of my photos organized in case anyone else was having the same photo struggle I was! It takes work to get everything sorted out, but it is possible and so worth it in the end. I never took the time to sit down and do the work to make it happen because I knew it would take a while and wouldn’t be a quick and easy fix.īut now that I have a collection of photos that is not only organized but also backed up and safe, I’m so glad that I took the time to do the work. Organizing my digital photos has been on my to-do list for years now. Give me a messy, cluttered office or garage or closet, and I will probably squeal with glee and get right to work sorting, purging, and organizing.īut when it comes to organizing my digital clutter, I feel much less qualified.
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