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I love the detail in this article! Recently, my uncle passed away, and I started thinking about the legacy of my photos (27k). The system the author describes works for him and he understands it in detail, but I wonder if anyone else in his family does. If (when?) he passes away, his heirs will not have enough free time in rest of their lives to evaluate his stored media. Likewise, does he have enough free time left in his life to view each of his media objects at least once more? One reason why our generation will "go dark" historically, may be that our heirs, facing terabytes of our data to review, on top of their own data, will simply walk away from the task and delete our data.




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