How Do You Manage Your SD Card Library?

txmadman writes "Like a lot of my colleagues and all of my three children, I have several SD , mini-SD, and micro-SD cards for various purposes: cameras, cell phones, my laptop, etc. These things are handy to have around, offer easy and significant storage, but are very easily lost. We have also have run into some instances where it wasn't clear whose SD card was whose, and have also started to see a need for a storage mechanism. I have seen SD card 'wallets' and such, but have never seen anyone actually use one. So: How do you manage and keep track of your SD cards?"

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stupid question...

[capsteve]

all the photographers i know have lots of cards, but they usually take the photos off the sd cards right away after the shoot. depending on the shoot, they will cycle cards out so they can develop early shots while taking additional photos. there was a time when a (studio or table top) photographer would call a film house to rush develop sheet or roll film to see how a shoot is going before committing to expending more film. this habit is still prevelent in the form of developing RAW images into jpeg or tiffs for quick proofing to inkjet printers.
i guess the bottomline is that the SD cards are only an intermediate format and aren't considered permanent archive. anyone who keeps files on SD/XD/Flash/CF/fill-in-the-blank is an idiot. copy your file onto harddrive right away, burn them onto cd/dvd for archive(two copies minimum!).
as far as memory card storage? i use an old cedar cigar box. it has a certain retro je ne sais quoi...