Tag: media asset management

  • Very Quick Thoughts on Mylio

    Very Quick Thoughts on Mylio

    Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen looking at hard disk options I noticed that with the Seagate One Touch Hub they offer six months with Mylio so I decided to try the app, without buying that app. My first thought is that it claims to replace Google Photos and iCloud and yet the cost is similar per…

  • Journey Through Time

    Journey Through Time

    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor two weeks I have been sorting through terabytes of data and it has been a journey through time. It’s easy to collect data and every so often when the laptop is full, move that data to a hard drive until that drive is full, and then onto the next, and the…

  • Playing with Hard Drives

    Playing with Hard Drives

    Reading Time: 4 minutesOne of the easiest things to do is to buy a hard drive, and over a period of time fill it, and then get another drive, and a third, and a fourth, and a fifth. People will go from a small drive, to a larger drive, and a larger drive after that…

  • Experimenting with the Photoprism App

    Experimenting with the Photoprism App

    Reading Time: 4 minutesWhile playing with Nextcloud I found a serious flaw. If you add images via the command line from one directory to another, and then delete them, then their ghosts remain in the timeline. By ghosts I mean references to these files in the CMS and there is no quick way of removing…

  • Playing with Nextcloud Continued

    Playing with Nextcloud Continued

    Reading Time: 4 minutesSetting up a drive to be available via Samba is a relatively simple thing to do. The drawback is that you have files that are as organised as the media asset manager. It can be quite chaotic unless you have someone trained as a media asset manager, archivist, or other, to help…