Organization of the 19,000 slides might not be as bad as you think.

Each box of 24-36 slides is marked with a date of development, so each box goes into a different directory according to the date on the box. Averaging about 30 slides a box that means I would have 634 directories,

Often on a trip I would take two or three rolls of film, so those two or three directories might, when sorted, clump together to be labeled as some trip or special event.

And, as John said, Photoprism can do an amazing job of identifying things, and I am planning on installing these and my other (tens of thousands of) digital pictures on a 6 TB Raid system with a Raspberry Pi controlling it, so it can take as long as it wants to identify and categorize the slides. The slides I already have digitized are either from Kodak PhotoCDs or various digital cameras that I have had over the years, and already are in the directories by date....so I am pretty much there.

Of course I often wonder if anyone will care about the pictures after I die.....but perhaps some people will like to see them...and I do have to cull through the NSFW pictures....

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 9:51 AM Tim Keller <turbofx@gmail.com> wrote:

The problem is one of organization. Let's imagine you get these all scanned in, now you've got +/- ~19,000 pictures to sort.

On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 2:44 PM John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
>>>>> "Jon" == Jon \"maddog\" Hall via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:

> I will see you all of those pieces of media and raise you about
> 19,000 35mm slides to scan in.

LOL! I've got some slides too... but not nearly that many.

> On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 5:47 PM John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> wrote:

>>>>>> "Jon" == Jon \"maddog\" Hall via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:

>> In 1975 I was working for Aetna Life and Casualty in Hartford, Connecticut. At that time
> Aetna
>> was the largest multiline Insurance company and also the largest commercial user of IBM
> equipment
>> in the "Free World" (which goes to show that with enough qualifiers you can be the best of
>> anything).

>> In any case we had 500,000 12" magnetic tape drives on site, with another 100,000 in a salt
> mine
>> for "long term storage". For those tapes the "retention time" was 9999 years.

>> Some of the older tapes were marked as seven-track, 128 bits-per-inch.

>> I asked my boss about trying to read those tapes, and he assured me there was a seven-track
> tape
>> drive stored along with the tapes, wrapped in bubble wrap.

>> "Yes", I said, "but where is the computer that can attach to that tape drive, and the OS
> that can
>> drive the tape controller, and the operator that can boot and run that operating system?"

>> My boss put his finger to his lips and said 'Shhhhhhhhh".

> I'm in the same boat with 43,000+ pieces of media offsite at Iron
> Mountain in a mix of DAT, DLT 7k, SDLT320 and LTO6 media that might
> need to be restored.

> And let's ignore the 8mm tapes that sat in a couple of boxes for 15+
> yeats without anyone touching them ... even after I scrapped the tape
> library to read them.

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