Do you delete photos from SD camera card after importing?

dj_paige  wrote https://forums.adobe.com/people/bob+frost   wrote Some people don't ever delete images from their SD cards - they just buy another when one is full. That full card is your backup and can be filed away in case you need the originals again in the future. SD cards are relatively cheap these days, so this is not too expensive, compared to prices of cameras and lenses. It is my opinion that SD cards are a relatively poor choice for a backup. Cloud storage, or external HD storage, are better backup choices.

Agreed. First of all they may be cheaper than before, but they are still very expensive compared to a hard drive. What you pay for a 128 GB SD card will also buy you a hard drive of 1TB or more. But more importantly, think about what it would mean in practise. Suppose your hard drive fails, and so you’ll have to restore all your images from multiple SD cards. That would be a nightmare, because the folder hierarchy on your hard drive was quite different from the (lack of any) hierarchy you have on these cards. And if you rename your images on import, the disaster would even be worse...

wrote How you delete the photos from an SD card is a different question than whether or not you can delete them. When the images are copied to the hard disk, you can delete them from the card (in whatever way). Do make a backup of your images however. It’s best to make regular backups of the entire disk. If you only have one single copy of your images, then the question is not whether you are going to lose your images one day, but only when that day will be.

Give me a brake.