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Safe deposit box at the bank for the physical records. A labeled manila envelope stored locally for each of us with the typical "identity" documents, SSN card, birth certificate, etc.

Everything is stored locally, unencrypted, and backed up on a local removable HDD, and on BackBlaze. BackBlaze has saved my bacon more than once.

As for physical objects, they're all temporarily mine, until I pass on. They're either tools, consumables, or tied to personal memories. Everything else can go.

The one significant thing to pass on to others is all the data in D:\source\yyyy\yyyymmdd*, which is all of my photos, including family events, short videos, etc. As best I can, all the faces have be tagged with XMP metadata. (Nobody wants to keep an old box of photos without knowing how those people are related)

     Total Files Listed:
           392934 File(s) 725,479,895,968 bytes
           16103 Dir(s)  1,790,571,331,584 bytes free
  
  D:\Source>
I need to discuss with my spouse and child what they want from there.



What do you use for face tagging? It's a tedious task, I used to use Picasa but it wasn't XMP and it's deprecated now


I use DigiKam, it is far less crashy than it used to be, but it's not as good as Picassa was.




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