Where to store photos?

TonyMMM

shopbot wrote: »

The most robust advice is the 3:2:1 principle.
3 copies of your photos. In 2 Locations. 1 of which is the cloud.

Good advice ...multiple backups is essential.

For any really important ones that you want to keep very long term, a good quality physical print is likely to be the best option.

paddyrg

Also, with facebook, check the terms of photo storage - there was a hoohah about peoples photos being used without their knowledge in ad campaigns and endorsements etc. I imagine Google are the same. Any free online storage comes with a price. If you can't see what's being bought, sold and traded, it's you (and your data).

angela110660

I have 3 years worth of photos on my Ipad which I would like to store elsewhere and then print off some of them to put in albums. Please can anyone advise the best way for me to do this. Many thanks.

CissiJ

Download the photos from iPad to LapTop via iTunes and then save them 3:2:1 as discussed above (external hard drive, cloud service etc). Then there are many online services where you can upload photos and order prints or you could save them to USB and go to a store and order prints. I prefer ordering them online.

System

first78 wrote: »

I've got several thousand photos on my desktop and just wondered how best to store them? I've uploaded a lot to Facebook but have no idea how many I can have on there and whether they will be there forever. Any suggestions on how to store them please.

You may not know this, but within this website are lots a treasures,not hidden treasures as they're not hidden away, it's a case of knowing where to find them. One such treasure is this:-

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/deals/free-photo-prints

This is a comprehensive list of companies that print photo's. What you might not know, is that each of them provide the first order FREE. There are two leagal ways round this, because as you will see, each company varies how many free copies they offer. All they are interested in is your email address because as sure as anything, once you subscribe, you will get emails. But, they can always be diverted to spam.

If you select the five companies that give the most free prints and each of them give 50, that is a potential to have 250 prints free and five sets of emails. But, if only one company offers 50, then what you do is to set up five new email accounts (but write them down and long with their passwords), so Trueprint for example, could get five orders from you, your name, your address, but different emails. That way, you are getting their "free prints with first order". I hold the to opinion that there could be five of you living under the same roof, each giving an order.

The choice is yours, just remember which photo's you've ordered that's all.

Le_Kirk

Given the number of times we see "my USB stick won't work" or "how do I recover files from a USB stick" is it really the best place to store precious photos? I know one would probably just put them on the stick and leave them and the problems with USB's are usually from multiple read/writes but I wouldn't risk it.

Throttle

I always find with Facebook (even HD setting) the quality isn't the same,
Its okay for just sharing them with friends though.

I tend to use Flickr (can set them as private if you want them that way) Onedrive, Dropbox and Googledrive.. Which was a little lucky i do as last year i had loads holiday photos from family trip to Disneyworld and my HDD died few month later losing them all on that !

Johnmcl7

Le_Kirk wrote: »

Given the number of times we see "my USB stick won't work" or "how do I recover files from a USB stick" is it really the best place to store precious photos? I know one would probably just put them on the stick and leave them and the problems with USB's are usually from multiple read/writes but I wouldn't risk it.

That's why you don't rely on one backup and have multiple ones instead, if one source fails then you copy the data from another backup or the original source to recreate it.

That said, you're always going to see problems magnified on a forum as people are likely to come here to post about a problem they're having. I use a fairly wide variety of USB sticks on a regular basis and failures are rare, for those that do fail it's often a result of physical damage from being carried daily on keys or similar.

John

chib

Another vote for Google Photos. It's where ALL of my photos are, kept in great quality (I'm not a professional photographer), secure and instantly accessible on any of my devices.

The indexing of metadata is outstanding also, easily find photos by date, object or location.

http://photos.google.com