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Mr Whippy - 29/3/16 at 11:49 AM

Drowning that's what is happening, drowning in 1000’s & 1000’s of photo's

Must be a sign of the times, when I was a kid getting a photo was a big deal (god help you if you didn't get the smile right) dad would be very cross at wasting a precious frame.

Now with 2 kids, one with her own camera, the plague that is Facebook, the wife, me and all our other friends who are seemingly continuously taking photos we have total photo overload!!!

A good part of my lunch break is now spent sifting through photo's secretly squirreling them away on the company’s network in numerous bulging folders till I work out what the hell to do with them all?

I tried uploading to Google cloud but that took ages just for a few, could try a hard drive but what if it crashes and dies, so do I get 2 or 3 as backups and how can I manage updating all of that??

What is the solution to this madness?!?!

Jeano - 29/3/16 at 11:57 AM

i have them on my Laptop and on an external Hard drive, if one was to die i would then backup to either a new hard drive or to a new laptop.

Photobucket is good as well and free.

David Jenkins - 29/3/16 at 11:59 AM

I've been collecting a lot of photos of the grandkids lately, so my usual routine is to get them onto my computer, move them into the right directory, mark them as read-only (so they don't get accidentally deleted), and make sure that they get backed up regularly onto my independent hard drive.

Every so often I copy the whole photo directory onto a DVD as extra backup, although data on home-produced DVDs doesn't last as long as people think.

Irony - 29/3/16 at 12:06 PM

Just get a couple of USB hard drives. Two backups. Go through you photos and just chuck the average ones. You won't use them anyway. These days people take photos of anything. My car is in hundreds of photos after parking in town a couple of times.

Get the best photos and take them to ASDA and get them developed. I got 200 6x4inch for Ł10. Ł10 Photo Album from eBay and you have a amazing present for the SWMBO.

Slimy38 - 29/3/16 at 12:20 PM

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Originally posted by David Jenkins
Every so often I copy the whole photo directory onto a DVD as extra backup, although data on home-produced DVDs doesn't last as long as people think.

About ten years if you're very lucky and use top notch DVDs stored in a perfect environment, but errors will more than likely turn up in around half that time. Or at least that's how it is for me.

As mentioned, first job is to flush out the rubbish. I reckon for every one photo we want to keep, there are at least ten that are useless. After that you've got a much easier job of storing them. Personally I hate photobucket, it used to be brilliant but it's new front end is shocking. Google Drive is my storage of choice, but there's not much of it.

Be careful with hard copies as well (IE printed photos). I don't know whether it's just me, but photos printed in the last ten years don't seem to have survived anywhere near as long as the ones from twenty or thirty years ago, even when stored in similar books.

Ugg10 - 29/3/16 at 12:36 PM

So, having had two hard drives go down in the oast (luckily I got the data back) I now have the following -

Main drive in pc
Backed up to network HD on router weekly
Portable drive backup in safe monthly
All photos downloaded to flickr (26k of them, 1tb of free off site photo storage, useful for sharing to forums and sharing with family, just send them an email link, can arrange in folders and set priviledges).

Bit belt and braces but so far ok.

nick205 - 29/3/16 at 12:44 PM

Myself I find it easier not to take photos and then not worry about how or where to store them.

loggyboy - 29/3/16 at 01:14 PM

Something like this
http://www.ebuyer.com/507687-buffalo-linkstation-420-2tb-2-bay-2-x-1tb-nas-drive-ls420d0202-eu
2 drives so you can set up to mirror so your less likely to loose files.
Easily expandable if you want to add larger drives in future.
Also allows webaccess so you can reach the files anywhere, and link to a TV (with DLNA) so you can open movies direct from TV.

[Edited on 29-3-16 by loggyboy]

Irony - 29/3/16 at 03:12 PM

quote:
Originally posted by nick205
Myself I find it easier not to take photos and then not worry about how or where to store them.

Along with 99.9% of the planet!!

nick205 - 29/3/16 at 03:31 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Irony

quote:
Originally posted by nick205
Myself I find it easier not to take photos and then not worry about how or where to store them.

Along with 99.9% of the planet!!

Yup, why fret when you haven't bothered

loggyboy - 29/3/16 at 03:44 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Irony
Along with 99.9% of the planet!!

Not 99.9% of the developed world!

coyoteboy - 29/3/16 at 08:12 PM

I use a NAS with 2 2Tb raid drives. I've got 13000 photos since 2012. I have no kids.

nick205 - 30/3/16 at 09:34 AM

quote:
Originally posted by coyoteboy
I use a NAS with 2 2Tb raid drives. I've got 13000 photos since 2012. I have no kids.

13,000 photos...what of???

I have 3 kids and very few photos to worry about.

Ugg10 - 30/3/16 at 09:51 AM

quote:
Originally posted by coyoteboy
I use a NAS with 2 2Tb raid drives. I've got 13000 photos since 2012. I have no kids.

Have you striped or mirrored them, careful with striping because if one drive goes down you have lost the lot, mirror is safer but both drives are from the same batch typically, so if one goes down the other will often follow shortly after. Two drives of different makes helps.

I am up to 26k photos, easy to take a thousand plus on holiday, how ever did we manahe with three rolls of 36 exposures and then wait a week while you got them processed. I have a task once my build is done to finish of digitising my lps and scanning in all my old printed photos!

richardm6994 - 30/3/16 at 10:13 AM

you can buy a 512GB memory stick for less than a tenner so I just have a couple of those.
I've not even come close to filling them.....and that include storing solidwork files, video's etc..... as well as photos.

512GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive Memory Stick - LIFETIME WARRANTY

loggyboy - 30/3/16 at 10:25 AM

quote:
Originally posted by richardm6994
you can buy a 512GB memory stick for less than a tenner so I just have a couple of those.
I've not even come close to filling them.....and that include storing solidwork files, video's etc..... as well as photos.

512GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive Memory Stick - LIFETIME WARRANTY

I don't believe that is 512 for a second.

The cheapest 512gb stick from any well known retailer are over Ł150

ETA

http://www.ebay.co.uk/cln/tnimitz0/cheap-512gb-fraud-fake-capacity-usb-flash-drives/167592666015

[Edited on 30-3-16 by loggyboy]

richardm6994 - 30/3/16 at 10:32 AM

Thanks !!! worth knowing and I'll keep an eye on the ones ive got (although nothing precious on them)............

richardm6994 - 30/3/16 at 10:38 AM

just googled about fake memory stick capacities..........bl00dy hell it's a mine field and surprised ebay lets them get away with it!!!

loggyboy - 30/3/16 at 11:03 AM

If it sounds to good to be true it usually is!
Stick to the brands and/or stick to the shops when it comes to that sort of thing.

[Edited on 30-3-16 by loggyboy]

coyoteboy - 30/3/16 at 12:32 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Ugg10

quote:
Originally posted by coyoteboy
I use a NAS with 2 2Tb raid drives. I've got 13000 photos since 2012. I have no kids.

Have you striped or mirrored them, careful with striping because if one drive goes down you have lost the lot, mirror is safer but both drives are from the same batch typically, so if one goes down the other will often follow shortly after. Two drives of different makes helps.

I am up to 26k photos, easy to take a thousand plus on holiday, how ever did we manahe with three rolls of 36 exposures and then wait a week while you got them processed. I have a task once my build is done to finish of digitising my lps and scanning in all my old printed photos!

Mirrored, same drive type but it has full SMART protection running and weekly checks, plus it's designed to email me as soon as anything fishy happens!

To be honest most of my images are guff,I've just not taken the time to clean them out yet. I looked at off-site backups etc to account for fires but the cost was massive. So instead I just back up the processed nice ones off-site.

Ugg10 - 30/3/16 at 01:00 PM

quote:
. I looked at off-site backups etc to account for fires but the cost was massive. So instead I just back up the processed nice ones off-site.

If it is just pictures then flickr is pretty good, 1tb of jpg (and short videos) storage free, then use one drive or similar for files and removable hard drive for raw files if you use them.