"Flash drivers or Photo Sticks" (Page 2): Using really thick paper, print important family pictures on one side and your artistic efforts on the other side. That might help. “Hey...

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Longshadow wrote:

I'm basically only concerned with storage while I'm alive. I'll keep current with storage media.
My kids & grandkids may or may not want my pictures. That's their decision, and their decision on how to store them.
After I'm gone, I'll have no need to worry about how long the images or media will last.

Using really thick paper, print important family pictures on one side and your artistic efforts on the other side. That might help. “Hey, check out this sunset picture grandpa put on the back side of Auntie Amber’s graduation ... “

ballsafire Loc: Lafayette, Louisiana

TriX wrote:

When you say “saving” your photos, do you mean a working copy, a local backup, a disaster recovery copy or an archive? In other words, what are your goals for the storage?

When I write "saving photos" I mean just like it appears (with details) in iPhoto after I've transferred them from my camera. I don't see any other way I would save or store my photos from my camera's chip. Sorry I confused your understanding my problem.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

ballsafire wrote:

When I write "saving photos" I mean just like it appears (with details) in iPhoto after I've transferred them from my camera. I don't see any other way I would save or store my photos from my camera's chip. Sorry I confused your understanding my problem.

So you’ve transferred them from your camera to your HD (or SSD) on your computer and you want to save a backup or archive copy in addition? To be safe, you need a local backup and a 3rd off-site backup copy such as cloud storage. As a start, Since you’re on a Mac, why not just enable ICloud which will automatically mirror them to Apple’s cloud - it’s an inexpensive and seamless way to begin. It’s not a complete backup/DR strategy, but it’s a good start and very simple to do.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

ballsafire wrote:

When I write "saving photos" I mean just like it appears (with details) in iPhoto after I've transferred them from my camera. I don't see any other way I would save or store my photos from my camera's chip. Sorry I confused your understanding my problem.

Ah, yea.
We didn't know you were referring to a specific editor function as opposed to a generic process.

rebride

Longshadow wrote:

Depends on the drive?
Who do we believe?
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/205382-ssds-can-lose-data-in-as-little-as-7-days-without-power

Yes, That depends on the technology of the drives and how they’re used.
The lose-data-7-days has been debunked.
Personally, I have a whole slew of external HHDs, most if not all over 5 yrs. old, all doing fine.
Also a bunch of thumb drives, no problems yet. Some with old data, close to 5 yrs.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

rebride wrote:

Yes, That depends on the technology of the drives and how they’re used.
The lose-data-7-days has been debunked.
Personally, I have a whole slew of external HHDs, most if not all over 5 yrs. old, all doing fine.
Also a bunch of thumb drives, no problems yet. Some with old data, close to 5 yrs.

jerseymike

Longshadow wrote:

Plus Carbonite and something blaze.

Backblaze

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I would suggest a solid state external drive rather than a spinning drive. They are more durable and less prone to failure. icloud storage should be reconsidered. Apple charges $3.00 for 200gb. I use both

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

Photo sticks use their own software to find and copy photos. It may not do exactly what you expect it to do. Learn how to use your computer's OS to do the same thing and you will have expanded your knowledge and won’t be beholden to some programmer's idea of what you want to do.

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

CHG_CANON wrote:

Great idea? No.

Get a 4TB external drive like a WD (Western Digital) passport. For storage and backup, get two. Use one as your primary image storage and periodically (weekly / monthly), copy new images from the primary to the secondary backup.

And keep them in two different locations. I have one here at home; a second one at our son's home, in our grandson's bedroom. Once in a while I give him a dollar or so for "rent" of the little corner in his dresser. He loves that game (he's 12 yrs old) and is very protective of Oma's property!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I've never used a photo stick, although I have used flash drives to transfer files from here to there.

The advantage of the photo stick seems to be that it searches your computer and finds images you might not have known were there. With all your images on one little flash drive, you can look through them and decide what to keep, what to delete, and what to move. I would never use one as permanent storage, though.

https://honestproductreviews.com/photostick-review/

A 128GB photo stick costs $52, while a similar flash drive costs $15.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

jerryc41 wrote:

I've never used a photo stick, although I have use... (show quote)

They are selling the software and the brand.
Learn your OS and copy yourself.
If you have stuff ALL OVER your hard drive, get organized...

senior techie Loc: Boca Raton Fl

Longshadow wrote:

They are selling the software and the brand.
Learn your OS and copy yourself.
If you have stuff ALL OVER your hard drive, get organized...

Do you have information how I may do this myself? I am working on a Mac OS Catalina and would love to learn how to locate my photos that are not in my Ligntroom catalog or my Affinity Photo and my iPhoto folder.
Prior to my Lr program my cataloging style was nonexistent but since 2015 I have become much more organized.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

senior techie wrote:

Do you have information how I may do this myself? I am working on a Mac OS Catalina and would love to learn how to locate my photos that are not in my Ligntroom catalog or my Affinity Photo and my iPhoto folder.
Prior to my Lr program my cataloging style was nonexistent but since 2015 I have become much more organized.

Have you tried Spotlight (upper right corner) and searched for “photos”?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

senior techie wrote:

Do you have information how I may do this myself? I am working on a Mac OS Catalina and would love to learn how to locate my photos that are not in my Ligntroom catalog or my Affinity Photo and my iPhoto folder.
Prior to my Lr program my cataloging style was nonexistent but since 2015 I have become much more organized.

Sorry, I'm a Windows user...
and I don't use catalogers.
My "Photos" directory has everything in it by subject sub-directory.