Photo Stats Possibly Wrong

[Bruce]

I just spent two hours trying to figure this out. If I click my name from the drop down menu on the search engine it says I have 290 photos, and 290 thumbnails show up - my own Excel database shows 290 also.

but if I go the the Members Section and click on "photo statistics" it says I have 291 photos in the database! It is not counting the queue because I actually have 4 in the queue. I double checked my copies of the pics - there are 290.

why the difference?


bruce

[JeffinDEN]

Bruce,
Don't get me wrong, but why in the world would you spend two hours on something like that? Does it really make a difference?

Jeff

[SWA733Captain]

The same thing happens to me...I have 90 shots in the database...but my photostats says 91. Probably because i had one photo deleted.

[jwenting]

Same here, discrepancy of 2.
Just happens that 2 photos disappeared without trace a few months ago.

Chris did explain it a while ago, the counters on the stats page are calculated from a different database table in which the photos that are no longer there are for some reason sometimes retained.

[Greg]

I don't have any discrepancies, 142 everywhere I look.

[Bruce]

ah simple reason, jeff: All photos from my ATL trip have now been "processed" and I was transferring the originals to the archive folder and since I have so many photos between here and a.net I checked the contents of the folder (# of photos) against my database and the stats from here and a.net to be sure I had all of the photo originals before deleting all the rest which are "junk". It could happen once in a while that an originals gets moved into the wrong folder and I dont want to permanently lose any of the originals out of the camera. If the numbers match it should not take that long.


bruce

[JeffinDEN]

Hey, good idea! That makes sense...thought you were getting anal on us there... :P

[Bruce]

I've developed a "system" which seems to work. Pics come out of the camera/digital wallet into folder named for the date & location then get moved into subfolders as they get processed - "originals","published", "waiting", "my plane pics", "non-aviation" then when all photos from that date/location are done, originals get moved to "digital archive" and uploaded photos get moved to "plane pics" (with subfolders for here and a.net), photos I keep for myself get moved to "my plane pics", non-aviation gets moved to "travel" and anything remaining should be junk (and there's a lot of junk!) and the date/location folder w/junk inside goes to the recycle bin. I wasn't doing this on the first couple shoots when I got my camera, 5/2002, and I did lose a handful of originals back then.

bruce

[Freightdogg]

Bruce,

I have a similar system to yours but with one change to give added security so I don't ever lose a shot. As soon as I have moved my original shots from the camera to a dated folder I then burn a photo CD for that folder before I do anything else at all. Then that CD goes into a storage album that serves only as a durable backup for all original photos. Any photo processing is done working from the dated folder on the HD and each change is saved with a new sequential filename. At the end of each month a new set of photo CD's are burned containing all the work done that month including processed versions. The CD's that back up the originals are kept in a fire resistant safe. I also have an external USB HD that backs up my Internal HD once daily and is never used for anything else. This gives me excellent redundancy and protects all my work from accidental loss.

[Bruce]

Well, for the purpose of backup I dont burn CDs I simply make a Image Copy of the entire drive on which my photos are located, and this Image is stored on a different hard drive (I have 2 hard drives in my computer) as well as, I keep another copy of only the photo on the Digital Wallet.

If my hard drive gets fried I only need to restore the backup and if the backup hard drive gets fried, well then all I do is make a new backup, but what are the chances TWO hard drives will fail together simultaneously?


bruce

[Glenn]

2 hard drives going at once. well it exponentially increased as soon as you mentioned "What are the chances"

It's related to Murphys law and can also be equated to the law of physics where the angle of Incidence is equal to the angle of reflection

I have money on it happening now within the week.

Do you have a contingency plan for when you have shot so many images that your har drive becomes so full that you cn no longer save to them ?

[Bruce]

well, check my math here I was never that great in math, but I figured my average pic is 900k, the hard drive is 40gb, so how many 900k images can it hold would be somewhere around 44 million.

The Atlanta Airport released stats for may '03 and there were 73,894 aircraft operations for the month. Assuming that number each month, and I photographed each and every single aircraft operation at ATL, it would take me over 595 months to fill the hard drive, or 49.5 years of shooting each and every single aircraft operating at ATL.

Now just try and imagine SCREENING all those shots! :P

bruce

[Chris Kilroy]

well, check my math here I was never that great in math, but I figured my average pic is 900k, the hard drive is 40gb, so how many 900k images can it hold would be somewhere around 44 million.

Try 44,000.

[Glenn]

I would think just over 40 000 images myself. But that's assuming that you have nothing else on the drive. Thing is the day will come and that figure will be attained. are tehy both in the same machine. Hope a power surge protector is in place

[Bruce]

oops yeah I was a little off there, huh?

well....so I can save 44,444 pics.

If I uploaded 10 pics per day I would be uploading for over 12 years!


bruce