@shahnm In addition to downloading them to my computer, I regularly back them up to an external hard drive and put that hard drive in a fireproof storage box.
@DrWorm You want paranoia? I’ll give you paranoia…
I download them to a RAID 0 mirrored drive. I have another internal drive that I back that up to. I also have a RAID 0 mirrored external server that they also get backed up to. And finally, an off site backup service that they get backed up to in case the house burns down…
Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t actually out to get me.
@hchavers How was this missed? I have a .edu account with unlimited Drive storage, so everything goes to Google Photos at full res. When someone gets wise and deletes my account, I’ll start paying for storage.
I don’t have a smartphone, but I’ve set up both my mother-in-law’s and father-in-law’s phones to automatically sync over wifi, and all they have to do is occasionally go into the Photos app and click “reclaim space” to pelete the local copies. It’s so easy, and they never have to worry about losing pictures because they forgot to back them up or something.
If I ever get a smartphone, I’ll handle mine the same way. Currently, I pull my SD cards out of my cameras and just dump the whole thing into Photos.
Apple conveniently distributes them to all my devices and accounts (phone, tablet, desktop, icloud, adobe, refrigerator), or at least access to them. I have no idea where they actually reside anymore, but magically I never seem to run out of space. Which probably means that when the great interweb crash of 20xx occurs, I’ll probably lose most of them.
/giphy internet crash
Mostly Google Photos (unlimited storage with my Pixel), or moved to my computer for storage when the device’s storage is full. I recently bought a 10TB drive, so I won’t have to worry about running out any time soon.
Mostly Google Photos (unlimited storage with my Pixel), or moved to my computer for storage when the device’s storage is full. I recently bought a 10TB drive, so I won’t have to worry about running out any time soon.
leave them on my iPhone, apple distributes them to all my other devices for me, apple backs them up to iCloud for me, and just to play it safest i let google back them up on their cloud for me so they can sell my info to make money off my information.
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Create a beautiful photo book with narrative on Shutterfly, Snapfish or similar service. My Publisher was my favorite till they died. Print multiple copies and give them as Christmas gifts to the other event/vacation participants. Of course I also store the images neatly organized in folders on my laptop and in a randomized-into-uselessness loose box on Amazon Prime. I used to use a much better service from Yahoo for that, but I lost the password and despite many tries have never been able to get back into the account. I don’t know if the service even exists any more.
@moondrake have you tried an email reset or contacting their support? If your phone number is on the account, they might be able to add 2FA (two factor authentication) without changing anything else, and that would let you reset your password.
Are you using a password agent like LastPass, Bitwarden, Dashlane, or 1Password? You should.
@mike808 This was a couple of years ago. When I first signed up to Flickr, it was a freestanding service. Then they merged with Yahoo, and I started having all kinds of crazy password problems. I tried CS several times, but it seemed that Flickr no longer had it’s own CS, and Yahoo CS couldn’t understand the problem, much less solve it. Most had never heard of Flickr. It was a paid service and I let it run out, and they kept asking me to re-up and I kept writing back that I’d be happy to pay them if they’d let me access my account but no one ever responded. I finally just gave up. I suppose I could try again, I see that Flickr still exists. Maybe it has it’s own CS now, or Yahoo CS has finally noticed it.
I used LastPass years ago, and one year in an update they snuck Bonzai Buddy into my computer on an update (maybe it was just a hitchhiker) and it was so much work getting rid of it that I quit them. Now I’m worried about them getting hacked. I’m one of Marriott’s recent victims, I still need to follow up on that.
It’s actually kind of a familiar story to old wooters. "It is a case study of what can go wrong when a nimble, innovative startup gets gobbled up by a behemoth that doesn’t share its values. "
Also I see that Flickr underwent another big negative change just this week.
They sit on my phone and don’t get looked at again. I used to transfer them to my computer and then not look at them but I eliminated that step so it’s a lot easier now.
I have 3 banker boxes filled with jumbled up photos going back to the early 1900’s. They are ignored.
I have files & files of digital photos that get downloaded to a secure/fireproof/waterproof harddrive I have (if I remember to put them there). Those are also ignored and unlabeled for eternity.
Well, when we had disney meets every year, I’d get everyone to send me their photos and I’d make movies with them. Then I’d burn them to disk and send them out.
But for the most part, never looked at them afterwards.
Last October I got it into my head I wanted one of those digital photo frames. I told my husband “we have all of these photos” (thirty years’ worth) “it’s a shame we never look at them”. And just to start, I put about five hundred photos on it. I resized them so they wouldn’t fill up the photo frame’s hard drive too quickly, so it was time consuming. Husband hung it on the fireplace and we both liked watching it. But we both said “gee, I wish it was bigger”.
So, I got a 32" roku tv. (There’s a thread here about this.) I have a nighthawk r7800 router that I have a couple of hard drives connected to and I figured since I could pull music from the hard drives using the Roku Media Player, why not the same with photos?
It works nicely. No fancy transitions, but I can live with that.
And so excited with looking at all of these pictures, I started thinking about all of the 35mm photos I took. In boxes, with negatives, in no order at all. I know that I’m missing photos, so I figure I can scan the negatives.
Did you know they have little machines that you can see your negatives as they would be as photos and convert them and save them? Yeah, they do. Mine got here late this afternoon and I’ve already checked a couple of things out using it, seems to do an okay job.
I leave them; when I try to move them, the pixels start falling out.
Still in the “cloud” - I hope!
Uh. Download and store them in a photos directory/digital album on my computer. That’s kinda a pretty big choice you left out…
@shahnm And then put them in the refrigerator, obviously.
@sligett Only the photos of batteries…
@shahnm In addition to downloading them to my computer, I regularly back them up to an external hard drive and put that hard drive in a fireproof storage box.
@DrWorm You want paranoia? I’ll give you paranoia…
I download them to a RAID 0 mirrored drive. I have another internal drive that I back that up to. I also have a RAID 0 mirrored external server that they also get backed up to. And finally, an off site backup service that they get backed up to in case the house burns down…
Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t actually out to get me.
Store them on OneDrive, iCloud, iDrive, DropBox, Google Drive … you know, someone else’s computer.
@hchavers How was this missed? I have a .edu account with unlimited Drive storage, so everything goes to Google Photos at full res. When someone gets wise and deletes my account, I’ll start paying for storage.
I don’t have a smartphone, but I’ve set up both my mother-in-law’s and father-in-law’s phones to automatically sync over wifi, and all they have to do is occasionally go into the Photos app and click “reclaim space” to pelete the local copies. It’s so easy, and they never have to worry about losing pictures because they forgot to back them up or something.
If I ever get a smartphone, I’ll handle mine the same way. Currently, I pull my SD cards out of my cameras and just dump the whole thing into Photos.
Apple conveniently distributes them to all my devices and accounts (phone, tablet, desktop, icloud, adobe, refrigerator), or at least access to them. I have no idea where they actually reside anymore, but magically I never seem to run out of space. Which probably means that when the great interweb crash of 20xx occurs, I’ll probably lose most of them.
/giphy internet crash
Mostly Google Photos (unlimited storage with my Pixel), or moved to my computer for storage when the device’s storage is full. I recently bought a 10TB drive, so I won’t have to worry about running out any time soon.
@DVDBZN And just to be safe you upload everything twice.
@cinoclav @DVDBZN “If you don’t have three copies of it, you don’t care about it.”
Mostly Google Photos (unlimited storage with my Pixel), or moved to my computer for storage when the device’s storage is full. I recently bought a 10TB drive, so I won’t have to worry about running out any time soon.
@DVDBZN And just to be safe you upload everything twice.
leave them on my iPhone, apple distributes them to all my other devices for me, apple backs them up to iCloud for me, and just to play it safest i let google back them up on their cloud for me so they can sell my info to make money off my information.
I use Google Photos and a Chromecast to turn my TV into giant ever-changing memory machine.
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Everything gets copied to my computer. It gets backed up to my network attached storage drive. But more important, they are in my memory.
Create a beautiful photo book with narrative on Shutterfly, Snapfish or similar service. My Publisher was my favorite till they died. Print multiple copies and give them as Christmas gifts to the other event/vacation participants. Of course I also store the images neatly organized in folders on my laptop and in a randomized-into-uselessness loose box on Amazon Prime. I used to use a much better service from Yahoo for that, but I lost the password and despite many tries have never been able to get back into the account. I don’t know if the service even exists any more.
@moondrake have you tried an email reset or contacting their support? If your phone number is on the account, they might be able to add 2FA (two factor authentication) without changing anything else, and that would let you reset your password.
Are you using a password agent like LastPass, Bitwarden, Dashlane, or 1Password? You should.
@mike808 This was a couple of years ago. When I first signed up to Flickr, it was a freestanding service. Then they merged with Yahoo, and I started having all kinds of crazy password problems. I tried CS several times, but it seemed that Flickr no longer had it’s own CS, and Yahoo CS couldn’t understand the problem, much less solve it. Most had never heard of Flickr. It was a paid service and I let it run out, and they kept asking me to re-up and I kept writing back that I’d be happy to pay them if they’d let me access my account but no one ever responded. I finally just gave up. I suppose I could try again, I see that Flickr still exists. Maybe it has it’s own CS now, or Yahoo CS has finally noticed it.
I used LastPass years ago, and one year in an update they snuck Bonzai Buddy into my computer on an update (maybe it was just a hitchhiker) and it was so much work getting rid of it that I quit them. Now I’m worried about them getting hacked. I’m one of Marriott’s recent victims, I still need to follow up on that.
@mike808 Interesting article, at least to me.
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
It’s actually kind of a familiar story to old wooters. "It is a case study of what can go wrong when a nimble, innovative startup gets gobbled up by a behemoth that doesn’t share its values. "
Also I see that Flickr underwent another big negative change just this week.
Make DVDs of the occassion
I don’t take any.
They sit on my phone and don’t get looked at again. I used to transfer them to my computer and then not look at them but I eliminated that step so it’s a lot easier now.
I have 3 banker boxes filled with jumbled up photos going back to the early 1900’s. They are ignored.
I have files & files of digital photos that get downloaded to a secure/fireproof/waterproof harddrive I have (if I remember to put them there). Those are also ignored and unlabeled for eternity.
Well, when we had disney meets every year, I’d get everyone to send me their photos and I’d make movies with them. Then I’d burn them to disk and send them out.
But for the most part, never looked at them afterwards.
Last October I got it into my head I wanted one of those digital photo frames. I told my husband “we have all of these photos” (thirty years’ worth) “it’s a shame we never look at them”. And just to start, I put about five hundred photos on it. I resized them so they wouldn’t fill up the photo frame’s hard drive too quickly, so it was time consuming. Husband hung it on the fireplace and we both liked watching it. But we both said “gee, I wish it was bigger”.
So, I got a 32" roku tv. (There’s a thread here about this.) I have a nighthawk r7800 router that I have a couple of hard drives connected to and I figured since I could pull music from the hard drives using the Roku Media Player, why not the same with photos?
It works nicely. No fancy transitions, but I can live with that.
And so excited with looking at all of these pictures, I started thinking about all of the 35mm photos I took. In boxes, with negatives, in no order at all. I know that I’m missing photos, so I figure I can scan the negatives.
Did you know they have little machines that you can see your negatives as they would be as photos and convert them and save them? Yeah, they do. Mine got here late this afternoon and I’ve already checked a couple of things out using it, seems to do an okay job.
TL;DR I’m watching them on my fireplace.
I tried to get a photo up, but hubby walked in the door with dinner.
@lisaviolet Pretty cool!
Multiple approaches: Instagram, curated photo albums on my tablet, making a photo calendar for friends. Plus, all photos uploaded ASAP tp Dropbox.