Where to store important family videos and photos?

RumRat

ringo_24601 wrote: »

I go for a portable external disk + Amazon Drive (Unlimited storage for photos)

Every month or so, I'll push photos from my camera's memory card onto the External HD, then onto the cloud. My phone will automatically upload all photos to Amazon as I take them.

Occasionally I'll clear my wife's iphone phone down and merge it with the external drive + cloud.

Now, through the Amazon Photos app, I can find pretty much any photo anyone in our family has taken. It's pretty amazing. You can even search by terms such as 'beach' or 'theme park' and it will find things.

So it works exactly like Google Photos?

Ganga

Have now managed to drop and drag photos to google photos,it has not automatically copied everything from picasa 3,my computor uses Windows XP as an operating system so might be that but at least i am on the way to save all photos,thanks for all the help supplied.

Ganga

RumRat wrote: »

Why would you go elsewhere? If you sign into Google photos the pics you had stored in Picassa will be there.
Everything moved over seamlessly for me. Uninstalled Picassa from PC, Installed Google photos backup, that was it.#
All pics available by logging in to Google photos online, on my phone and on our tablets.
Very little effort required....:)

When you uninstalled picasa before you installed google photos what happened to your photos that were sitting in picasa? or am i missing something.

bob_a_builder

Nothing 'sits in ' or is stored in Picassa on your PC - its just a viewer
So if you un-install it, the photos are still in the folders and or drives, wherever they were originally

Money_Saver

I tend to have three back up copies just in case!

RumRat

Ganga wrote: »

When you uninstalled picasa before you installed google photos what happened to your photos that were sitting in picasa? or am i missing something.

As bob says, nothing happened to them. Google photos just took over on the Google servers, which is where the pics are.
It's basically the same thing with a different face and upgraded abilities.

googler

dipsomaniac wrote: »

google has more >900,000 servers on 4 continents

Good for them, but I wasn't referring specifically to google...

dipsomaniac

googler wrote: »

Cloud storage is all very well, but if it's only in one place, and that place gets flooded/goes on fire etc., then you're stuffed. If the company providing the storage folds, you're also stuffed.

all of the ruputable cloud storage companies with have a similar setup to google and have their servers in more than one location or even country

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RumRat wrote: »

So it works exactly like Google Photos?

Not exactly, it has some advantages and some disadvantages.

It has unlimited, uncompressed photo storage. I believe Google compresses / resizes your photos. This storage can also include RAW format files - which can be rather big.

It is also easier to get files out, I find, from Amazon. Google does have a bulk export option but it's fiddly.

Google does allow more video storage though - Amazon limits you to 5gb unless you pay.

RumRat

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Not exactly, it has some advantages and some disadvantages.

It has unlimited, uncompressed photo storage. I believe Google compresses / resizes your photos. This storage can also include RAW format files - which can be rather big.

It is also easier to get files out, I find, from Amazon. Google does have a bulk export option but it's fiddly.

Google does allow more video storage though - Amazon limits you to 5gb unless you pay.

I was referring to the search facilities etc. which was quoted in my reply.