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So as the title said, just wondering how you store your digital photos that you have taken?
ATM I am putting ours onto CD's but wondering if perhaps this isnt the best way to store them long term? I have oodles and oodles of CD's full of photos atm, and in no particular order either :rolleyes: :doh: (Not looking forward to that job!)
So what are the best options available?
I'd love the hear how others do it to!
I would love to know as well! Our computer clearly can't cope with the huge files and we can't afford a new comp, it is old but need to save a little bit more for a new comp, def a laptop this time too!!!!!
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Leah and Dan
Lucy 5
Minnie 2
Pippi due 29 sept
After going through a few too many hard drives I dont store anything Im not willing to loose on the computer/laptops anymore lol
I have a program from Creative Memories (the scrapbooking party plan company) called Memory Manager, and I think its quite good. It reminds you to back things up (which I do onto a portable hard drive), it has a timeline so you don't have to sort everything into months and years, you can have as many folders and sub folders as you want, for example, I have a folder called family, which then has sub folders for the 4 of each, I have another folder called events that has sub folders such as birthdays, christmas, day outs. You can sort things into a number of folders, eg I can put a photo of DD into her folder and into the birthday folder, but it only saves one copy of the photo itms. It has a search function, so you can search for a word in the photo name. It also has some basic editing software too. I think there's more that it can do but its pretty new so I'm still figuring it out.
We have 3 terrabyte portable hard drives the DH backs eveything up on... have not lost anything yet!
I'm a bit pedantic about our photos :lol: On the camera is just that month's photos, so at the moment it's only got September. I put the pics onto the computer and name them all, usually they're of Moo so I'll say Moo 2 Years or Moo's 2nd Birthday etc. Each month then goes onto both a CD and a 4 GB USB when it's over, that way I've got 2 different back ups. I take so many photos - last month was over 600 so it normally takes 2 CDs for each month and a USB might hold 3 or 4 months.
we do the same:
I've had two 1 terrabyte drives fail in the last two years so have scrapped backing them up on external drives:
I use DVDs (more space), need to go through and re-organise them again & burn onto different dvds (ran out of re-writable ones), I also have a laptop that has a 500gig hard drive in it which has the most recent photos on there (using iPhoto - it is a MAC) most recent ones were synched from my phone while on holidays.
My camera is relatively old - about 5 years so the files are small, and my computer is about 11 or 12 years old.
I back up onto DVD's, and also use websites like Photobucket.
I try and post a copy of the DVD's to various relatives as an extra backup (hopefully!)
I have recently started using an EXIF file renamer, which renames all the photos with dates and times eg 2011-09-24 etc
we store on external hard drive that then lives in a fireproof safe!!!
I bought extra google storage and uploaded them all. It was really cheap and easy.
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Jude 07/10/2008 | Lilac 16/06/2011
EEEK! we used to back up on DVD's but when I went back to use a few of them they were scratched and we lots a lot of pics... Seems there's no easy answer!:
I need to get all my pics off the comp, quite a few are on FB :redface: but they are not the greatest quality once you want to re-use or print them.
I am going to be putting them all on discs and then in a CD case, i really want to get back into printing some of the photo's we love aswell.
I was thinking about getting some cheap USB sticks but not 100% on how reliable they would be for storing for long periods of time.
Thanks guys, it looks like there is no one set way that is better than another, they all have their drawbacks!!