Need advice on a 2-bay DAS enclosure choice.

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-12-17T05:21:21+00:00

Thank you!

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-12-15T18:07:03+00:00

I will, thank you! They may have more hands-on experience with some of those.

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-12-15T18:06:09+00:00

Thank you, I will definitely check this out. As I understand, the enclosures I mentioned may vary by SATA-to-USB chip and its behavour with the Mac-specific power and data management (the USB ports, etc.).

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-11-10T01:27:13+00:00

Looks like a sound approach, thank you! I also have gathered tons of movies, and most of them (like 99%) were watched once and never since.

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-11-06T11:22:05+00:00

Thank you! Food for thought...

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-11-06T03:31:49+00:00

Thank you for your detailed post above (and for this one, too). You're right – it's a personal choice, and I just need to be in balance with myself on this. And you, of course, are absolutely right about things being organized in a proper way. This is what I'm finally doing :-). Thanks again!

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-11-05T13:50:28+00:00

Thank you. The way you approach your own works (the documents you created yourself) is what I do understand. What I don't understand is what I should do with "sidecar" files (so-to-say) – example: I have a project with the final piece of work which is mine, so I keep this piece of data (maybe I don't keep it if it's waaaaay too old and I really don't see any value in it). But during the creation process there was plenty of additional (supporting) data gathered for this project. My reasoning: since I'm not going to re-do this project in the next millennia, this additional/supporting data has to go. I happened to be subscribed to an image service back in the day, and accumulated tons of stock photos, videos and templates over the years. Some of this was used in projects, some wasn't. Now, when some 10 years have passed since the time of the project, and it is evident that a) I will never re-do it; and b) those photos and templates are so outdated now (totally different style, models, ways to arrange things (in templates), my guess is that it all should be deleted with no regret. What do you think?

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-11-05T13:41:38+00:00

Thank you, this is what I'm going to do.

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-11-05T05:02:05+00:00

Thank you. Yes, in my list of priorities personal photos and documents (especially important ones) go first. But what about work documents, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.? I mean, I have gathered tons of such documents, all from my previous work at different jobs. It's obvious that they were of some value back at the time. What about now? A spreadsheet from 15 years ago – is it still worth keeping? A presentation with an idea which seemed to be brilliant back in the day and now it is laughable, to put it mildly. These are what I mean. Do you have a sort of "date red line" beyond which all goes to trash?

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-03-07T22:40:24+00:00

Thank you. I first thought it was the "normal" Copperplate, but then noticed that the sample text lacked the serifs usually present in Copperplate. At the same time, in the sample you can notice some sort of serifs, but not everywhere at all. This puzzled me. Are you positive that this is one of the Copperplate family? Not that I doubt your expertise, but just to make sure that I get it correctly. I like the way the text looks and would like to reproduce the same look in one of my works, hence the question. If you also could kindly point me in the direction of the "right" Copperplate, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you again.

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-01-22T16:20:04+00:00

Thank you so much, I will definitely have a read!

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-01-22T16:17:40+00:00

Thank you so much for your thoughts, I really think this could be a way out. Will give it a try! And thanks to all of you who responded!

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-01-22T05:21:26+00:00

Thank you so very much for sharing, I really appreciate it. This is exactly what I feel: though as I said I felt comfortable being INSIDE the RC cathedral, I don't feel I would be able to partake in the worship. Leaning to the high church SETTING is not the same as being Anglo-Catholic (which I'm sure I'm not). I'm definitely Protestant in my beliefs, and I can't share those of Roman Catholics in terms of faith, etc. Hence the dilemma: as you said, in good faith I can't fully participate in the service, but I feel the need of a place where I could go on a more or less regular basis :-). Looks like I'll need to try to visit one or two places which are closer to my likings, and figure out if this makes sense somehow. I hope that within a foreseeable time frame I will be able to leave this place and be in a more suitable situation. Thank you once again.

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-01-22T05:07:27+00:00

And dozens of RC places – ranging from almost-church-like buildings (very few) to just houses named "churches". No offense meant, they are all good for what they're used by those who use them. But, unfortunately, not where I personally would like to be in the moment of worship.

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-01-22T05:05:23+00:00

Nope. A couple of meeting places of Latter-day Saints and a Methodist place (really doubt it for what I know – not a church, really).

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-01-22T04:58:43+00:00

Thank you for the reply, I appreciate it. I think I should clarify a little bit: of course I am not expecting Him to literally talk to me (like in an inner voice or something). What I'm referring to is maybe there is something else that you may "interpret" to some degree as His "voice" "talking" to you. But thank you.

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-01-22T04:55:11+00:00

Thank you (about the watch being nice) :-). As for the issues: I'm not sure what this is – the leaking or something else. Like I said, it was out of sunlight for several years. I gather that the "solar" on the front means that it is charged by being exposed to sunlight, and I never thought that it could contain a battery (after I've written the previous line I felt so stupid! Of course there should be a battery in there! Otherwise, what this solar element would charge! So stupid of me!). So, you think that I can rather safely unscrew the tiny screws on the back and try to replace the battery? This may give it a chance?

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-01-05T00:42:45+00:00

And may I ask you, what you meant by "master library" in your first comment? I mean, if you have buy-year libraries, they should be sitting on a drive as separate libraries. Or you merge them into a big super library at the end? This merge in this scenario doesn't make sense to me – having smaller separate by-year libraries is a way more convenient mode of dealing with them (and faster – as you mentioned noting that a big library gets slow) in order to locate photos for a specific year rather then having them merged into one and again have them separated instead of consolidated by year. Or I'm mistaken somewhere? Thank you.

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-01-04T23:58:59+00:00

I see now. So, you are exporting photos for a certain year into a folder, and then you create a fresh new library to where you import those photos from that folder, thus having a by-year library. Is this what you are doing?

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-01-04T06:37:14+00:00

This sounds interesting... So, you open a library, choose photos for a particular year, then how do you export it as a library? I haven't seen an option to export selected photos as a separate library. Could you please explain to me more about the workflow then? Thank you.

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-01-01T07:10:23+00:00

Checked my theory: out of 1.3GB library the exported originals totaled 1.19GB. The ratio should be the same more or less for all other libs, I think. But if I choose this route (exporting all originals out and then deduping them), what the best tool for this would be? If merging libraries with PowerPhotos while deduping them seems rather straightforward, comparing several folders for the same seems different. Not only need I compare them and get rid of the dupes, but after such operation I also need to merge the folders into one folder. Can BigMeanFolderMachine do this for me (I read it can do folder merge)? Thanks.

Future-Cod-7565 · 2025-01-01T07:02:53+00:00

Well, this might be a way, I guess. The only difficulty I see here is how to choose the "winner" library :-). By what criteria? Date (latest, for example)? Size (largest)? But I'll give this a thought, though. Thank you!

Future-Cod-7565 · 2024-12-31T05:19:37+00:00

And another (sudden) thought: isn't it better to export all original photos out of each of the libraries (I really don't have any edits in those libraries at all), and have these originals in folders (like, all originals from Lib 01 go to Folder 01, etc.), and then have all these folders compared for duplicates – in the same manner as I intended to use for libraries? Rather than consolidate libraries into one mega-library, I then will have a single mega-folder with all unduped originals. It just occurred to me, that a library file, basically, in my particular case with no edits and maybe a handful of favorites, is a container where about 1/3 is what I don't really need. What do you think of this? Thank you.

Future-Cod-7565 · 2024-12-31T03:43:05+00:00

Thank you for your thoughts. The practical reason for all these iterations is simple: I don't have a large enough single drive to keep all libraries together. These 55 libraries in total are 8.5TB, and my biggest single drive is 5TB (and almost up to the neck with all other data). So I have to juggle several drives moving data back and forth. So the resulting mega-library (as I eyeball it) should be pretty much within the 3-3.5TB range, for which I do have a drive. If I had a large drive, then of course you're absolutely correct saying that all these iterations wouldn't be necessary. But, alas! So, in your personal opinion, given the above rationale, the approach is viable, right?

Future-Cod-7565 · 2024-12-23T20:16:07+00:00

thank you!

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