Amazon Cloud

Yellow_One

Has anyone use Amazon Cloud? I am trying to upload photos as an extra backup and I try to upload by 'folder' after installing the app on my PC and it just does not work. I had thousands of photos to upload and if I cannot upload via 'folder' it will take hours upon hours and will be a messy muddle on the Cloud.

Any tips please?

Thank you in advance.

Nilrem

By the sounds of it you're basically experiencing normal upload time.

If you're uploading a lot of photos it can take hours even to a dedicated server, as how fast it goes will depend on your upload, and usually upload speeds for home users are pretty slow, which means that a typical high quality photo from a modern digital camera* (or even good mobile camera) might take anything from 15 seconds to a few minutes to upload on normal broadband.
When you've got hundreds, or thousands of them, that can mean it will take hours, or even days to do depending on your upload speed (if you're using a good camera, a thousand pictures an be the equivalent of uploading a full DVD).

About the only thing you can do to improve it (if you want to keep the original picture size/quality) is to sort the photos out before you upload into folders by subject or date, then you can upload those smaller (sub) folders.
It will probably still take a long time, but you would be able to do it in smaller chunks.

I tend to try and sort my pictures out on my computer by subject and date taken, then if uploading the originals I can do it in small chunks (and if uploading smaller, web sized versions can do a lot at once), it also makes it much easier to find a particular photo if I want at home, or want to burn them to DVD.


*Often digital camera pictures are about 3-6MB each now, which is very big compared to pictures uploaded for normal browsing (a single 5MB picture takes about 4-6 seconds to upload to my webhost, and I'm on the top VM cable package with about a 10mb upload speed).