How do you save your photos/files?

tinamachina · August 2011

Do you store them all on a flash drive? Discs? On a site (Dropbox)? I was thinking about going as far as getting a fireproof safe (for that and our other important papers)- are you guys going this far? How are you saving your stuff?

kj07 · August 2011

We save them on flash drives and then send the drive to either my parents or my in-laws. We have too many photos to fit on a CD or DVD.

It's good to plan for - my friend just recently lost almost all of her photos of her kids because her computer had an unrecoverable crash. We also lost all the photos our our (my and DH's) first trip together because he was robbed and his computer and camera were stolen.

xxbabycakesxx · August 2011

all of griffins photos are saved on an external hard drive and every month or so ill burn them onto cds so if something were to happen to the external hard drive, i at least have the cds.

bosha711 · August 2011

I get them printed & I back them up to an external hard drive & to disc. However I have not done this in a long time. I know by typing this I am probably doomed now, lol.

lilmgirl · August 2011

External hard drive for now. I do need to invest in some CD's just in case.

EVM1216 · August 2011

I keep all my photos on my work computer and my home computer, and will probably buy an external hard drive when we have some extra cash. I also will print hard copies of all of them, because prints are the only medium that have a have a known life. CDs/DVDs have a limited life because they have not been around long enough for people who study these things to determine it. Some Cheap CDs have been known to loss info in as few as 5 years, and all media is limited by the life of the hardware needed to view it.

For the longevity of digital format uncompressed TIF files are considered the best, then JPEG2000, and JPEGS. However, since you are probably not planning on saving archival quality images to be viewed 200 years from now you probably don't need to worry about that. But since I am an archivist, and do worry about these things, I thought I'd pass the info along.

--halo-- · August 2011

DH is obsessed with making sure we have backups of our photos of Jack. We have them all on his computer, then twice a day they are automatically backed up onto an external HD at our house, as well as remotely backed up onto an extra HD in my mom's computer at her house.

JoJoMama730 · August 2011

bosha711:
I get them printed & I back them up to an external hard drive & to disc. However I have not done this in a long time. I know by typing this I am probably doomed now, lol.

Uhhhhh, we are doomed too. [scribbles new entry on to-do list]

TMNTgirl · August 2011

We back everything up on an external hard drive.

I also have a lot of our pictures on shutterfly since that's where I order the hard copies from (I scrapbook everything, so we also have tons of scrapbooks).

tinamachina · August 2011

EVM1216:
I keep all my photos on my work computer and my home computer, and will probably buy an external hard drive when we have some extra cash. I also will print hard copies of all of them, because prints are the only medium that have a have a known life. CDs/DVDs have a limited life because they have not been around long enough for people who study these things to determine it. Some Cheap CDs have been known to loss info in as few as 5 years, and all media is limited by the life of the hardware needed to view it.

For the longevity of digital format uncompressed TIF files are considered the best, then JPEG2000, and JPEGS. However, since you are probably not planning on saving archival quality images to be viewed 200 years from now you probably don't need to worry about that. But since I am an archivist, and do worry about these things, I thought I'd pass the info along.

great info-thanks! I just started uploading to Dropbox- so far so good. You can upload videos too. I will probably print hard copies too.

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