It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking the photos on your old hard drives are perfectly safe. But are they really? Our guest Derrick Story needed to extract 200,000 images saved in Apple’s discontinued Aperture software on an old Drobo storage array. Using a combination of an old MacBook that could run Aperture and modern software like Peakto for organizing the extracted images, he was able to restore them all.

Guest:

• Derrick Story

Hosts:

• Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass, Jeff on Mastodon


• Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass, Kirk on Mastodon

Show Notes:

(View show notes with images at PhotoActive.co)

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• The Digital Story (Derrick’s site, newsletter, podcast, photography, and more)




• The Rescue Mission (Medium Guest Link)




• Peakto




• Mylio




• Episode 144: Wrangling Libraries with Matthieu Kopp

Our Snapshots:

• Jeff: Moonfire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11


• Kirk: Harry Potter: The Complete 8-Film Collection

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