Photo Manager jungle

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Personally I am a user of Adobe Creative Cloud, and all it has to offer
between desktop, and mobile devices. That said there are times that it is
good to have a redundant outboard storage backup. These days for me that is a
SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD.

When I travel, on a typical day I can end up with 4-6 GB
of pictures. Trying to upload these to a cloud would
take a very long time.
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Alfred Molon

Olympus E-series DSLRs and micro 4/3 forum at
https://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
https://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site

In article , Alfred
Molon wrote:


When I travel, on a typical day I can end up with 4-6 GB
of pictures. Trying to upload these to a cloud would
take a very long time.

no it wouldn't.

4-6gb would take less than 10 minutes to upload at 100mbit, which is
considered slow these days. for 10mbit, it would be a little more than
an hour.

On 10/07/2019 19:41, Neil wrote:
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The idea behind cloud storage is that your files can be synced with and
accessed by multiple devices. Also, it adds productivity to an
environment where multiple people are working collaboratively on a
project. There are other benefits, if used wisely.

However, I see few (if any) good reasons to put all of one's files on a
cloud server.

Isn't that just what happens with a Chromebook, though?

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Cheers,
David
Web: http://www.satsignal.eu

On 7/11/2019 4:39 AM, David Taylor wrote:
On 10/07/2019 19:41, Neil wrote:
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The idea behind cloud storage is that your files can be synced with
and accessed by multiple devices. Also, it adds productivity to an
environment where multiple people are working collaboratively on a
project. There are other benefits, if used wisely.

However, I see few (if any) good reasons to put all of one's files on
a cloud server.

Isn't that just what happens with a Chromebook, though?

OK, then read my comment to be, "few (if any) good reasons to " use a
Chromebook. [-P

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best regards,

Neil

On 7/10/2019 4:49 PM, Alfred Molon wrote:
In article ,
says...

The idea behind cloud storage is that your files can be synced with and
accessed by multiple devices. Also, it adds productivity to an
environment where multiple people are working collaboratively on a
project. There are other benefits, if used wisely.

In photography you are dealing with large files with
sizes ( 10MB), which take long to download unless the
connection is very fast. And in most cases it's not
multiple people working on a bunch of photos. Usually
it's a photographer processing hundreds of images with a
total size of several GB.

In photography you are either dealing with the needs of the pro or those
of an amateur. It is not unusual for pros to have to deal with large
files from numerous locations or by using a number of devices. Pros are
not likely to drag a desktop computer to a client's location to discuss
the images for their project, for example. Cloud storage meets that kind
of need in more efficient ways. And, don't overlook the fact that "cloud
storage" is just marketing-jargon for "internet-connected server",
something that pros have used for decades to achieve the capabilities I
originally listed, above.

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best regards,

Neil

On 11/07/2019 11:49, Neil wrote:
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OK, then read my comment to be, "few (if any) good reasons to " use a
Chromebook. [-P

A few days ago I advised someone of exactly that!

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Cheers,
David
Web: http://www.satsignal.eu

In article , Neil
wrote:

The idea behind cloud storage is that your files can be synced with and
accessed by multiple devices. Also, it adds productivity to an
environment where multiple people are working collaboratively on a
project. There are other benefits, if used wisely.

In photography you are dealing with large files with
sizes ( 10MB), which take long to download unless the
connection is very fast. And in most cases it's not
multiple people working on a bunch of photos. Usually
it's a photographer processing hundreds of images with a
total size of several GB.

In photography you are either dealing with the needs of the pro or those
of an amateur. It is not unusual for pros to have to deal with large
files from numerous locations or by using a number of devices.

yep

Pros are
not likely to drag a desktop computer to a client's location to discuss
the images for their project, for example.

because they'll take a laptop instead.

Cloud storage meets that kind
of need in more efficient ways.

true, but that's only part of the problem.

And, don't overlook the fact that "cloud
storage" is just marketing-jargon for "internet-connected server",

actually, it's much more than that.

something that pros have used for decades to achieve the capabilities I
originally listed, above.

not with large files, they haven't.

only recently has internet access become widely available and fast
enough to where that was viable.

Neil:
In photography you are either dealing with the needs of the pro or those
of an amateur. It is not unusual for pros to have to deal with large
files from numerous locations or by using a number of devices. Pros are
not likely to drag a desktop computer to a client's location to discuss
the images for their project, for example. Cloud storage meets that kind
of need in more efficient ways.

Right. That's why Adobe has Smart Previews to move previews, which give
the appearance on a display of being high-resolution originals.

And, don't overlook the fact that "cloud
storage" is just marketing-jargon for "internet-connected server",
something that pros have used for decades to achieve the capabilities I
originally listed, above.

Bingo again. The government agency that I worked for began using these
all over the world in the late 70's or early 80's. We called them by
the dull, unmarketable name "remote servers."

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I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm

In article , Davoud
wrote:

And, don't overlook the fact that "cloud
storage" is just marketing-jargon for "internet-connected server",
something that pros have used for decades to achieve the capabilities I
originally listed, above.

Bingo again. The government agency that I worked for began using these
all over the world in the late 70's or early 80's. We called them by
the dull, unmarketable name "remote servers."

those 'remote servers' did very little compared to today, and the
bandwidth wasn't there for transferring large amounts of data.

On 7/11/2019 8:57 AM, David Taylor wrote:
On 11/07/2019 11:49, Neil wrote:
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OK, then read my comment to be, "few (if any) good reasons to " use a
Chromebook. [-P

A few days ago I advised someone of exactly that!

Not a problem, since people have different needs. However, I don't trust
Google enough to rely solely on their services to maintain my files.

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best regards,

Neil