Amazon Prime For Storing Your Images
Jan 10, 2021 10:24:25 #
tomad
Loc: North Carolina
Yes, I have uploaded my entire library. I don't use it as my only backup though as I have also backed up my entire library on three hard drives. Amazon is just the cloud copy. One interesting thing about it is that if you watch Amazon Prime TV with a Fire Stick or the like, you can set it up so that if you pause the video for a few moments a random slide show of your photos starts up and runs for a while. In doing that it has reminded me of lots of old photos (up to 20 years) that I had forgotten about.
Jan 10, 2021 13:46:36 #
mikeroetex wrote:
I have it and it's okay for jpgs I guess. Tortuously slow and hard to keep updated, so I rarely use it.
Is Amazon Prime limited to jpegs?
Jan 10, 2021 14:10:43 #
Jan 10, 2021 15:41:11 #
So much for backing up documents, PDFs, etc at Amazon...
Maybe some people are only interested in backing up photos.
Maybe some people are only interested in backing up photos.
Jan 10, 2021 16:02:06 #
Longshadow wrote:
So much for backing up documents, PDFs, etc at Amazon...
Maybe some people are only interested in backing up photos.
Maybe some people are only interested in backing up photos.
I guess that's why they call it Amazon Photos. :-)
Jan 10, 2021 16:04:58 #
Fstop12 wrote:
I guess that's why they call it Amazon Photos. :-)
I wonder if people use another vehicle to back up other files.
IF they back them up....
Jan 10, 2021 17:43:48 #
Longshadow wrote:
I wonder if people use another vehicle to back up other files.
IF they back them up....
I wonder if people use another vehicle to back up other files.
IF they back them up....
If they have ever experienced a hard drive failure they usually get in the habit of backing files they don't want to lose.
Jan 10, 2021 18:59:17 #
Fstop12 wrote:
If they have ever experienced a hard drive failure they usually get in the habit of backing files they don't want to lose.
Just takes once, eh?
Jan 13, 2021 10:10:57 #
As noted by some, BACKUP is for everything, not just photos. Yes, this is a photo oriented forum so people are in the habit of thinking about their image files. But in reality, your computer (unless you are computer illiterate in everything except photography) contains important files other than your images.
Much has been said about the usefulness of digital photos. They reproduce well without copy degradation and all that sort of thing. The same is true of written documents and other computer files. Do you have a will? Life insurance policies? Titles to your vehicles and home(s)? Family documents like letters home from your 3Great grandfather in the civil war? These things should all be on your computer and in your backup system.
If you're going to do a backup of important stuff, do it ALL.
Much has been said about the usefulness of digital photos. They reproduce well without copy degradation and all that sort of thing. The same is true of written documents and other computer files. Do you have a will? Life insurance policies? Titles to your vehicles and home(s)? Family documents like letters home from your 3Great grandfather in the civil war? These things should all be on your computer and in your backup system.
If you're going to do a backup of important stuff, do it ALL.
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