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Convert/Remove RAW Files on a Mac
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wrote: My real constraint is the SSD on the iMac. It's 500GB, and I got to within 20GB spare recently. Bumping that up to 100GB wasn't too difficult, but it's made me look a little more carefully at it all. I don't think removing the RAW files will save me much space - it's one of a few things I'm looking at. I don't like keeping things like photos (100GB) and documents (50GB) on remote sources. Get a 1TB external drive, or two of them. They cost (effectively) next to nothing these days ! don't even think about doing that. 1 tb desktop hard drives are tiny and not cost effective. drive makers aren't even making them that small anymore. these days, 8-10 tb is the sweet spot. on the used market, however, 1 tb drives really do cost almost nothing (a few bucks each) because nobody wants to buy them. |
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Convert/Remove RAW Files on a Mac
On 21/03/2021 1:02 am, geoff wrote:
On 16/03/2021 7:08 AM, RJH wrote: On 15 Mar 2021 at 14:46:04 GMT, "Savageduck" wrote: On Mar 15, 2021, RJH wrote (in article ): Â* Using an iMac/Big Sur and Photos, and I'd like to free up some space on the Â* computer and iCloud. I can do this by removing/archiving 1500 RAW files, and Â* replacing them with compressed copies. Trying to figure out the best way of Â* going about it. Â* Would the inbuilt Export/Compress options be best? There doesn't seem to be a Â* way of doing what I need within Photos - so far as I can see, it'd involve a Â* lot of shifting files out of and back into Photos. What is the source of these RAW files, phone, or other camera? DSLR. They're not huge - maybe 15MB each. But I don't need them as RAW. Is Photos, and iCloud your only only backup/archive? Time Machine regularly, portable drive occasionally. If so, you should seriously consider a redundant backup/archive plan for your RAW files starting with the purchase of an adequate sized portable HDD/SSD and/or buying more iCloud, or other Cloud storage. Yes, could do, but . . . Personally, since memory and storage media (HDD/SSD) is inexpensive these days, I would be planing that method of backup rather than compressing my RAW files, and risking file corruption. That way I have an onsite archive with a potentially redundant expanded iCloud storage. My real constraint is the SSD on the iMac. It's 500GB, and I got to within 20GB spare recently. Bumping that up to 100GB wasn't too difficult, but it's made me look a little more carefully at it all. I don't think removing the RAW files will save me much space - it's one of a few things I'm looking at. I don't like keeping things like photos (100GB) and documents (50GB) on remote sources. Get a 1TB external drive, or two of them. They cost (effectively) next to nothing these days ! geoff I've got several inexpensive, Western Digital,4TB sata external drives at Walmart. I removed them from their case and placed them in my big PC desk machine. I get transfer speeds in the range of 150+ MB/s |
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