raygirl

What is the best way to store digital photos?

johneccles Loc: Leyland UK

Keep your images on your PC and back up to a portable external hard drive, they are very cheap about £40 for 500gb.
Cheers, John

jethro779 Loc: Tucson, AZ

You can copy them to dvd's as well. Use dvd blanks and not cd blanks. Dvd blanks will hold 4+ gb of files; cd's only 800 mb.

raygirl

Thanks!!

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

If your PC is short of space you can store the originals on a fast external drive and back them up on a second external drive or on DVD. Photos can quickly fill up your whole PC hard drive if you take a lot of pictures.

lorvey Loc: Lincoln, Nebraska

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

tusketwedge Loc: Nova Scotia Canada

what i did is 2 hard drives in comp. One for pograms and one for picture storage.Also have an external hard drive that I put the the original and the PPed keepers as they are being processed.

mjrehg Loc: Saint Louis Mo

everything here is good advice. But I think it's not a bad idea to also backup to cloud storage. There are a lot of options for that which I need to explore . But for now I am using www.adoberevel.com . It replacled the www.photoshop.com site. you can upload only JPEG here, though, I wish they would allow RAW upgrades. But it is uploaded at full size , and you can download at full resolution too. You can share albums if you want to , and allow the people you share with to download as well. It has some nice editing features if you care to use them, but , it was created for use on mobile devices , IPAD, etc, and some of the features (like editing) do not work on a PC. In the first 30 days of your membership , you can upload UNLIMITED JPEGs. After the 30 days , you can upload 50 per month free of charge, you can pay if you want more storage. I uploaded thousands of pictures in my first 30 days, and now I monthly upload only my best ones to store them. I would recommend you follow the advice of other members and backup with other physical devices , CD, DVD, External hard drive because you never know what will have to a cloud storage site...it could be discontinued sometime in the future .....

lbrandt79 Loc: League City, Tx.

Also, I store a full set of DVDs at my best friend's house. Used to keep them in my office when I had an office. Computer and hard drive in one location can burn, be stolen etc.

crimesc324 Loc: West Palm Beach, Florida

You could also use something like the cloud. I use external hard drives and Carbonite.

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

Once a week this subject comes up. The key is backing them up! Hard rives fail, and yes, external hard drives fail, so have them in at least two locations. Backing up onto DVD's (which you might keep in a separate location in case of fire, floods, etc.) is very good. If you are a techie, or know one, you can put a BluRay drive in a desktop computer for $80 - a BluRay disc holds 25GB worth of data!

crazyformickey Loc: Edgewater Park, NJ

I burn two DVD's incase one "fails" and both of those go to my inlaws. Then I back up on Two external hard drives that remain at my house. Seems a bit excessive but all it takes is losing your photos once to take extra precautions to make sure it never happens again.

lbrandt79 Loc: League City, Tx.

It does come up often, but do not see many people who store them off site. I have been toying with the storing them in the cloud just haven't pulled that trigger. I am glad it comes up often, it just caused me to burn a DVD yesterday.

jimmya Loc: Phoenix

I keep mine on an external drive for easy access and back up to DVD when a single file reaches the correct size.

I also have a second external. I use it to back up the file I'm currently building. Once I burn that file I delete the back up on the second drive and start again.

For me this system works because I had a crash several years when I lost everything. Since then I've used this system and haven't lost a single image.

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

Sounds like a good plan! Who's Mickey - the mouse or the boyfriend? :)