What do you guys do with your old trail cam pictures? I have 16,000 pictures that are burning a whole in my memory. I don't really want to delete them but is there any other options?
Suggest moving them off the PC or Mac to an external hard drive. You can get a 1TB model for under 50 bucks now days. That's lots of room and there will be plenty left to backup other files you don't want to lose off your desktop. Bill
I delete the ones that I don't think are worth keeping. I don't really keep does or blurry shots for example. If the picture is a really great shot or unique I might but otherwise I don't think of using hard drive space. An external hard drive is the way to go, however. That reminds me I probable should organize my photos one of these days. Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Tapatalk
I agree with the guys above. I delete bad, blurry or picture with no deer right away. Then put them on a external. 1 terabyte hard drive will last a longggggg time.
i got a external hard drive a couple years ago i down load all pictures every year i save my pictures by mo. and year for the year i like to look back at them that way / check EBAY for hard drive
My laptop has 93 gb of space since I got a new harddrive, and I think my pictures are taking up a lot of it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Why keep all 16,000 pictures? External HD is your best bet. I think you can upload 15GB worth to Google Drive... Photobucket, Flickr, and Shutterfly are other options as well.
What I'm wondering too. In my lifetime I doubt I'll have 16,000 pics worth keeping. Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk
Not all of them are keepers but I haven't had time to go through them, I'll end up saving atleast a few of every buck, more of big bucks, and any that are interesting but it takes time to go through 16,000 and I'm already over 4,000 for this year Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I stopped downloading my SD cards a few years ago. Now I just view them write down the number of the best pictures and save them.
I must just be really efficient at going through pics... It takes me about 30 minutes to go through 2000+. Windows viewer + the delete/enter key right next to each other and you can burn through a ton of them quickly.
I save mine and analyze them quit a bit, look for deer I recognize, look for new deer, etc Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I think most of us analyze our pics... Try getting into the habit of deleting them right when you analyze/check them. Save you a lot of time down the road! If you've already looked at them thoroughly you should be able to use the delete/enter key to weed out the good ones fairly quickly. Or just get a external HD and save them all haha.
I think I'm gonna get the hard drive, I look at them all the time, I could delete them but it's easier to just put them on a hard drive. I couldn't even download some film to work on from this weekend my computer was so full Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Why spend the money on an external hard drive when you can do something as simple as making a "fake" email (and emailing them to yourself then delete off of your computer), a "fake" Facebook account and upload them there but not adding any friends or even a Photobucket account ^^ you should have endless storage if you go with either of the first two options
I try and go through my cards as I download them. Otherwise I dump them into a file on my desktop. After I filter through and keep only the good ones, they get renamed by date & time and filed into species specific folders. All my trail cam photos and videos have been whittled down to under 2,500 files. On a side note. I now use Adobe Bridge to automatically rename my files for me. It's an awesome time saver for anyone that has Adobe CC. I re-name the files to the following name format: YY-MM-DD TTTT OriginalFileName Makes organizing and finding files a breeze.
I follow MNHunterr. I go through them semi fast and delete/enter my way to the end. I usually kill a couple pictures I want to keep this way so I have to go to the recycle bin and save them but I can have 9+ cameras worth of pictures cleaned up in 30 minutes this way. This day and age everything is about time. Less time you spend looking at a blank picture trying to figure out what triggered the camera the more time you have for other things like shooting your bow or scouting new spots. Its pretty easy to train your eye to pick a picture apart in about 2 seconds.
Turns out 2014 pics were only taking up 5 gigs out of 93. I think the bigger problem is that I have a very small memory Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
