MM photo storage

Re: MM photo storage

• cbee817 member

  

  August 2015 edited August 2015

  We have a shutterfly account to share with family/friends and print copies too (keep something old school). We have them also saved to our photo program on our computer and DH just bought a backup portable drive to move all of the photos and videos to (I think it was $99 for 2 TB and it listed a crazy # of pictures it could store). We'll keep the backup drive in our fire safe lock box just in case.

  

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• vlagrl29 member

  

  August 2015

  I upload my iPhone photos on my Mac (iPhoto) and I organize by names.  Then I back everything on my laptop on time machine.  Not sure how many copies I have.

  
  

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• maple2 member

  

  August 2015

  We  have a very large external hard drive that we use to back up everything on our home computer, including pictures. We also have a free dropbox account that we use for some photos, especially those we want to share. I am considering splurging on something like Clickfree that automatically scans your computer for new content and reminds you to back it up every month. We have also talked about paying for more space on dropbox so that we could have a second back up of photos and other important digital content on the cloud.

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• hoffse member

  

  August 2015

  Yeah I'm thinking about buying space from Google and doing a physical back-up on an external hard drive.  It's kind of expensive, but we really need to make sure everything that's important is digitized in one place, and we wouldn't lose anything important if the house burned down.

  
  

  I got paranoid when we bought the house and made a pretty extensive photo journal of our valuables for insurance purposes.  I just haven't centralized everything.

  
  

  My mom actually spent about a year going through massive amounts of old family photos and digitizing/organizing them (from the pre-digital days).  Between hers and mine we have thousands to back up.  We also need to keep back ups of important docs.

  

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• bridejl member

  

  August 2015

  We also use an external hard drive. I don't remember the price, but we haven't purchased one in many years so it's a once-in-awhile thing. You may want to look into Google Drive. I'm not sure about how much photo space it allows or how easy it is to upload, but it could be a possibility, and it's free.
  

  

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• lbonga1 member

  

  August 2015

  I worked as a computer technician and saw countless people who had failed hard drives and lost everything because they didn't have a backup. I always recommended to people to have two different back ups. You could either have an external drive to back up to, as well as a virtual backup, like Google drive or Carbonite. Or you could have two external drives: one that you back up to regularly and one you back up to say monthly and store it in a safe or other place that it wouldn't get lost or damaged in case of a fire, etc. That way if the drive you back up to regularly failed, you'd at least have the second drive and only lose up to a maximum of a month's data.

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• maple2 member

  

  August 2015

  If you're not in a hurry, Staples and other places have sales on external hard drives somewhat regularly. I think we got ours for 50% off on a Black Friday sale, but I have definitely seen them on sale at other times too. We have a lot of non-photo digital stuff that we want backed up (we were both students for a long time), which sort of forced us down the external hard drive route rather than the free picture saving options on-line, but, honestly, I feel more comfortable having stuff backed up on a hard drive. It may not be super MM (or based on any type of rational analysis), but it's a one time expense that feels worth it to me.

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• dragonstarjk member

  

  August 2015

  We have an external hard drive.  I think we got it on sale for around $100 on Amazon.  I do the same thing as @maple2 and also use it to store documents and such.  It's small enough to fit in our safe deposit box too, which I like!

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• blondie42107 member

  

  August 2015

  My H is a computer guru so he has things backed up in about three different places. I use Snapfish and Shutterfly also for quick access for calendars, books, prints, etc.

  

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