Storing Digital Pictures
May 20, 2013 19:35:42 #
I've been thinking about all my pictures on my computer, i phone and i pad and became worried about what I'd do if something happened to them all.
I would appreciate if you could advise what would be the best way to store all my digital pictures and know they're safe.
Thanks, Sharon
I would appreciate if you could advise what would be the best way to store all my digital pictures and know they're safe.
Thanks, Sharon
May 20, 2013 19:55:26 #
Buy a thumb drive and drag your albums to it. They're cheap from Best Buy, Office Depot, etc. Buy a few large capacity drives since photos take up a lot of space.
May 20, 2013 20:05:26 #
Would also buy a small(fire-proof)lockbox. I thought I did it right. Had my back-up CD(s) and my thumb-drives. Kept them about 10 ft away from the computer. Then we had the house-fire...at a total loss. 40+ years of photography(from around the world) all gone within a few hours.
May 20, 2013 20:19:15 #
May 20, 2013 20:21:14 #
That is something I should of had a long time ago. Sorry for your loss and thankful for the advice and reminder.
May 20, 2013 20:33:52 #
Wasn't a good year for me...Had just moved back from Montana Jan 1(after the truck accident...where I should have been killed) and then 5 months later the house-fire(old fuse-box shorted). Lost 2 dogs as well, but no human lives.
May 20, 2013 20:46:47 #
I'm glad that no human life was lost, but I know your heart must of broken over the loss of your dogs...they're like family!
I trust that healing is taking place and things are looking better.
I trust that healing is taking place and things are looking better.
May 20, 2013 20:48:44 #
I like to store them on-line in addition to a thumb drive and external hard drive. CD's are good, too, because they are easy to label. The nice part about the cloud is that you can look at them any time that you can get on line. I hope that this helps.
May 20, 2013 20:56:53 #
Two external hard drives. Complete back up on each. Keep one at home and the other off site, such as at work. At set intervals (weekly, monthly ect) back up to the hard drive at home then take it to work and bring home the other drive and back up to it, next week do the same. This way you will always have a good back up at home and work. There are may different back up programs depending on if you are running PC or MAC. If you are running MAC you already have one, PC Im not sure but, someone will chime in with that answer. External HDs are cheap now days, my preference is Western Digital or Toshiba. I dont like the cloud they can go out of business without notice and you loose every thing.
May 20, 2013 20:59:10 #
Yes, it does help. I was thinking about an external hard drive. I'm not really sure how the cloud works on line though.
May 20, 2013 21:02:05 #
May 20, 2013 21:27:10 #
May 20, 2013 21:51:06 #
normsImages wrote:
Two external hard drives. Complete back up on each... (show quote)
SyncToy is a free PC back up program.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15155
May 20, 2013 22:03:36 #
normsImages wrote:
If you Quote Reply everyone will know who you are responding to
Sorry...thought I was, but realized I was just hitting the "reply".
May 20, 2013 22:03:59 #
kit_kit wrote:
SyncToy is a free PC back up program.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15155
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15155
Thanks for the info.
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