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Gary Quigg

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Location: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: 15 Apr 2011
Which files to keep after processing?
Posted: 11 Nov 2012 at 17:34 GMT
After processing a lot of panoramas I can see space eventually becoming a problem on the hard drive. This is becoming noticeable after switching to exposure fusion of 3 shots handheld. Usually 15+ images per pano and approx. 3GB per pano folder. TIFFs are about 100MB each.

How are others dealing with this?

Do you throw away the TIFFs/equis after final panorama creation and just keep the RAW and project files?
Do you simply copy everything to an external HDD and file away?
- RAW files from camera
- TIFF files from RAW converter
- large equirectangular from PTGUI (approx 200MB)
- misc project files

Cheers
Gary
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Bob Stone

Posts: 359
Location: Rochester, NY, United States
Registered: 20 Oct 2007
Re: Which files to keep after processing?
Posted: 12 Nov 2012 at 1:47 GMT
updated: 12 Nov 2012 at 1:49 GMT
I know everyone does this their own way but for me, the only files I discard are the tiff files. They take up the most room and can be regenerated if needed. I keep all the other associated files in a folder like this: C:\8mmpanos\zoo\A\ (each pano taken at the zoo is in folder B,C,D, etc).

Then I backup 8mmpanos along with all sub folders to two different external hard drives using this nifty and free utility. sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/ using "Mirror" mode... love it.
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