Re: A couple of newbie questions

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:36:34 -0400, Frank Arthur wrote:


"ray" <ray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:40:58 -0400, Frank Arthur wrote:

I'll answer your second question.
With great certainty that over time at the rate of technilogical changes
you
most likely
will not be able to use your current media in future operating systems.
Think of the 5 1/4 inch floppies and the fact that few new computers even
accept floppies at all.
People who use CD's now are switching to DVD's. Imagine, if you will, the
next media disc, tube,
pellet or whatever held 10,000 Gigabytes and would fit in a button. Would
you still keep your then
ancient DVD's? And what of 3d images, sound, greatly superior images etc.
If you buy a computer today plan on replacing it in several years.

Current media will be supported as long as USB survives; possibly firewire
as well. You can always keep an 'old' computer to do conversions and
transfer to latest technology.

Oh no you can't. Try using your Photoshop CS work on pre Microsoft XP
computers.
They won't work. You would need to start accumulating a number of old
computers,

I don't understand your comment - you're talking about going back, we're
talking about going into the future. Why would you want to take something
you've already processed on a current system and attempt to move it back?

eventally a closet full, if you wanted to run some of the ancient computers
of the past
20 years you might need several. And where would you find 5 1/4" floppies?
I once had a collection of Engineering Drawings made using Hewlett Packard
Drafting
software and HP proprietary software. It cannot run on anything else. Would
you keep
one of those dinosaurs even if one was capable of running? And if it fails.
Goodbye.

The point I was trying to make was: if all your stuff had been on 5 1/4"
floppies: there was a transition period when everyone was shipping
computers with 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" floppies - during which you would have
copied over to 3 1/2" - so no more need for 5 1/4". Floppies are now
becoming more rare on new systems - so if you have a bunch of stuff on 3
1/2" floppies - you should be copying to CD or DVD. When CD/DVD becomes
obsolete, there will be another transition period - during which you can
copy to the latest technology.

As far as images: jpg is jpg. It does not matter whether you processed it
using an old version of PS or not. RAW are the only files that really need
'conversion' - and if you keep the RAW files you should be able to convert
them in the future. It is certainly not wise to keep things in a software
proprietary format - i.e. PS - it would be dumb to do so.
.

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