How do you store your digital photos?

[BlackCat]

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 (Not looking forward to that job!)

So what are the best options available?

[M D]

I'd love the hear how others do it to!

[organic-girl]

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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Lucy 5
Minnie 2
Pippi due 29 sept

[BlackCat]

After going through a few too many hard drives I dont store anything Im not willing to loose on the computer/laptops anymore lol

[SammyRo]

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.

[Jakabella]

We have 3 terrabyte portable hard drives the DH backs eveything up on... have not lost anything yet!

[~Hestia~]

I'm a bit pedantic about our photos 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.

[skybie]

We have 3 terrabyte portable hard drives the DH backs eveything up on... have not lost anything yet!

we do the same

[Sopdet]

We have 3 terrabyte portable hard drives the DH backs eveything up on... have not lost anything yet!

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.

[emc2]

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

[Olive]

we store on external hard drive that then lives in a fireproof safe!!!

[SunnyRain]

I bought extra google storage and uploaded them all. It was really cheap and easy.

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[Jakabella]

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.

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!

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

I need to get all my pics off the comp, quite a few are on FB 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.

[BlackCat]

Thanks guys, it looks like there is no one set way that is better than another, they all have their drawbacks!!