• lemmyingly@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    I’m not deleting them. They’re uploaded to the cloud at the time of creation. I also move them off my phone to my computer every 6 months or so - I do this just in case the upload to the cloud has ever silently failed. I deduplicate the images, so I don’t have multiple versions of the same image with different file names.

    For me it’s not entirely about space. I rarely let the device get more than 2/3rds full. It’s also about speed. If I want to pull a photo/video off my phone, it seems sluggish when there are thousandths of files in that one directory.

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      7 months ago

      Ah, yea, I see. Makes sense. Minimizes your risk while also minimizing your effort to manage them.

      Yea, I don’t mind having photos on my phone, but managing them is far easier on a pc. So like you, mine all sync to my PC instantly, then when I feel like it I spend some time there cleaning them up (and the changes sync back).

      Since the PC has Crashplan for backup, and a NAS it syncs too, I feel pretty comfortable my stuff is safe.