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Life Kit

How tech experts recommend organizing your photos

Life Kit

NPR

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Education, Business

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Feeling overwhelmed by thousands of photos? Running out of storage? We spoke with a consumer tech expert, a professional photo organizer and a photo-loving tech entrepreneur to get their tried-and-true methods for sorting digital photo collections — whether you're doing simple, routine prevention of photo bloat or starting a big archiving project. This episode originally published December 31, 2020.

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You're listening to Life Kit, from NPR.

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Hey everybody, it's Mary L.

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I keep getting these alerts that I'm about to run out of storage in the

0:35.2

cloud where I back up my photos and videos. I could pay to get more storage and honestly

0:40.5

that's what I've been doing because the alternative just seems daunting.

0:44.6

I gotta sit down, look through all these photos, delete the duplicates, figure out which ones I want

0:49.6

to keep when I might have like five versions of the same group shot.

0:53.0

You know, I look best in this one, but my friend looks best in that one.

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Also, I don't want to get sucked in emotionally

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and end up on a trip down memory lane when I see people in photos who I don't talk to anymore.

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It just feels like the Wild West, right?

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Who knows what I'll encounter?

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If you're like me, Elise Hugh is here to help.

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She did this episode for Life Kit on how to make your photo collections more manageable.

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And turns out, it doesn't have to be the nightmare I'm imagining.

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There are ways to automate parts of the process, to outsource if you've got a big project, and to take this one day at a time.

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She'll also talk about how to organize your photos so you can access the memories when you want to. and the following message come from Wise, the app that makes managing your money in different

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