Finding "Duplicates Through Time": How I Cleaned Up 300GB of Photos Without Losing Quality
Lately, I have been playing around with my personal photo and video library (around 300GB of files, spanning 10+ years of memories). I had a specific type of problem: I needed to save space on my SSD, but I did not want to pay any third-party cloud provider for extra storage.
To make things trickier, I was traveling in a remote location without any electronics stores nearby. Buying an external hard drive was out of the question. I had my laptop, tablet, and smartphone. Together, they had enough cumulative storage, but my laptop drive was suffocating.
What if I just made the library smaller?
The Compression Route (and a Nod to Middle-Out)
