Today is moving day. Well, actually it is the first day of moving week. We’ll be starting by moving 60 boxes of stuff out of storage and into our new house. When we first moved those boxes into storage at the start of February, we took some time to carefully catalogue and label each box with a number, its contents, and what room it came from. The idea was that a bit of extra effort on moving out day would make life easier on moving in day. We’ll see today if that theory worked.
I made a half-hearted attempt on moving out day to document the day photographically, but ended up with so much to do and so little time in which to do it that I took a total of 6 photographs before I gave up and just focused on making boxes, filling boxes, taping boxes, labeling boxes and shifting boxes. The photograph above is one I did take. This week I have the same aim in terms of documenting moving in, and will probably fail to get into double digits again in the numbers of photographs taken, though I do have an idea for some time-lapse stuff when we get to start the painting work that we need to do.
The hard disk on my laptop failed sometime before Christmas, and I ended up having to go through a very similar process with all the data I had stored on it – moving it from one hard disk, into storage, and back onto another. I thought I had everything backed up, and it was only when I had completely erased the original hard disk while reformatting it to try to get it up and running again that I realised that I had lost my Aperture library entirely. This didn’t mean I lost any photographs, but I did lose all the adjustments I had done to any photographs since I had started using Aperture for my post processing.
That was unfortunate to say the least, but it has given me the opportunity to re-process all my photographs, and I think with improved skills on my part, it’s working out for the better in the long term. The need to re-import all my images into Aperture allowed me to take the time to organize them a little bit, and I’ve also started the long process of keywording them. It’s a bit like sticking a label on a box with a number, its contents, and where it came from.
I’m taking my time with the whole process, and remembering to back things up as I go – I don’t want to go through it again – but hopefully once it’s all done I’ll have a library of images that is easily searched, well organized, and easy to maintain. If so, the original loss of data that prompted me to do that big move may turn out to have been a blessing in disguise.
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