20,000 Photos

I currently have 20,000 photos backed up on my external hard drive.  I have about 10,000 backed up on SmugMug.  I don't know why I have such a horrible time deleting mediocre pictures.  Or staying organized to the point of knowing exactly what is where.  I'm still double checking that certain large photo groups are backed up on SmugMug before I delete them from my computer.

Once I get this figured out, I will be golden from here on out.  One thing is for sure, I'm done using iPhoto.  It only makes it difficult in the end to organize and back-up.  Yes, it looks pretty, but I think functionally, it just doesn't cut it for me.

What I will do from now on...

• DELETE crappy, unusable, no-way in heck will I ever print these photos!!
• Put photos immediately into the correct folder Year/Month/Event.  It's not that dang hard.  I just need to stop being so lazy about it.
• Backup the photographs after editing onto the external hard drive and then to SmugMug.
• DELETE photos from my computer hard drive as soon as I'm done with them.  The computer is not for storing.  It's for working.

All I can say is that I'm sure thankful for the digital age.  I'd be monumentally broke if I were still using film cameras.