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For the longest time folders on IPFS have been the primary way to achieve a 10K NFT collection. While a metadata folder is ideal for a base URI, images and assets are another issue. 

- If the collection is huge it can be a problem getting it on IPFS in the first place 
- If a collector wants to protect their NFT they would have to pin the entire folder
- IPFS implementations don't have great ways to support viewing or managing folders

The alternative? Use Pinata Groups! You can easily upload or add existing files to a group which makes it easy to list all the files inside. With this approach you could simply use the individual CID for an image file instead of a folder link. This not only makes uploading way easier, it also makes it more atomic in nature and allows better backups by those who want to pin the content.

Wanna learn more about groups? Got the docs here!

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Wanna learn more about groups? Got the docs here! https://docs.pinata.cloud/web3/pinning/groups

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I personally would recommend writing a script that uploads the files one by one. If you use Pinata then our API would allow you to upload all of them into a group. Then you could easily build a script to create the metadata and reference each image file CID. When your files are on Pinata it's also easy to fetch all the CIDs for your collections and back them up somewhere else. 

I've thought about doing a no-code tool to help creators do this, but I've been hesitant since there's so many launchpad standards. Instead I might do a 10K pfp tutorial and do everything from scratch.

What do you think is the best way to store images for a 10k NFT collection for someone launching one today?