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What, if anything, should you delete?

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What, if anything, should you delete?

- [Narrator] To delete files or not to delete files? This is something that I have gone round and round about in my head over the years when it comes to, as I'm cleaning things up, as I'm backing up my computer, even as I'm sorting through photos. I have my favorites, and then I have some that are decent, then I'll have a handful that are no good, they're terrible images, I hate 'em. (laughs) Should I keep them? Should there be some reason up the road to keep them? Ugh, I don't know. There are a couple schools of thought, one is that you don't always know if a photo's going to be valuable right in the moment. You might not know till later on. For instance, let's say you have a terrible photo, in your opinion, of Uncle Bob. He doesn't look terrible, but you didn't shoot it the way that you wanted, and then it turns out that you have the best photo of Uncle Bob, and Uncle Bob passes away and they say, "Remember, he was…

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