ricosha wrote:
I have been shooting, and still have the photos, since I was nine. I have boxes and boxes of film shots w/ negatives. I'm 71 years old and currently culling with the help of family members (at my insistence). Never forget, the media changes, starting with large floppies (even though I didn't use them for photos, just docs). When CD's came out, I used them as backup, then DVD's were the best because larger data storage. I used cloud storage, Carbonite, for a while after it came out. Had some problems when they used compression software; although I do not know if they still do. I just recently converted all my CD and DVD's to straight data and do a "bank" backup. Using three USB drives, one being my working drive, one being a backup and one other drive kept unplugged and rarely used (once a month) as the "off site" backup. I like Microsoft One Drive for documents; however, not sure if it is compatible with Apple products. I share with thumb drives (Family) and drop box for work. My caution statement is make sure the site or software does not compress. Please excuse the wordiness.
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Thank you. That is exactly what we are doing. My husband and I are retired and have downsized. There were boxes and boxes of photos and slides, etc. That is why I am doing this, in order to keep the ones we want to keep and to scan all of the others and put them on a drive. Now, that I have been doing this for a couple of months, the files on the drive is rather large. I also would like to store it in the cloud so that all of our relatives are able to look at the photos and documents now and well as in the future - the grandchildren and on down the future line.