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Wife' 50 party presentation

Hi All


At my wife's 50th in March I'm looking to allow people to upload photos taken on the night to a One drive account and they will then be projected on a screen at the venue. Venue has laptop connection, wifi and in built in projector so this could happen instantaneously.


I was thinking of getting them to send/upload images to a One drive account than then getting the laptop to run a slide show from that account.


Any other ideas?


How do I easily direct them to the One drive account? QR code printed on a piece of paper? Most of them will only have Facebook, not snapchat or Instagram and I don't want them to have to create an account.


Thanks

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  • techquest
    techquest Posts: 294 Forumite
    edited 10 February 2019 at 4:59PM
    Not so sure it would be that easy at initial glance, to your onedrive account that is. But will put some further thought into it. There is also a limit on the storage space of onedrive.
  • Chino
    Chino Posts: 2,031 Forumite
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    techquest wrote: »
    There is also a limit on the storage space of onedrive.
    OneDrive Basic has a 5 GB limit. More than enough for people to upload a few photographs.
    https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-gb/plans/
  • Thanks.

    It doesn't have to be OneDrive, could be a similar shared drive I guess like Dropbox, but hopefully not one that people have to create an account.
  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    Unless you are going to get people to set up accounts/organise emails etc in advance. probably easier to get people to upload to a facebook page/website and display/download pictures from there?
    Eg you could set up a 50th facebook page for your wife and get folks to add pictures there
  • Thanks for the reply.


    Would the FB page self scroll I wonder so that when a new photo was uploaded it would move down?


    hmm - maybe not as easy as I thought.
  • emptybox
    emptybox Posts: 442 Forumite
    Although it sounds at first like a neat idea to have anybody be able to upload a picture, and it immediately appear on a big screen at the venue. You'll likely get some bright spark who'll take an inappropriate picture, knowing it'll be shown.

    Perhaps better have them upload to a FB page, and then someone responsible could transfer them to the Onedrive account to be displayed in the venue.
    Yes I know that means someone has to do a bit of curation work. But perhaps safer that way.
  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    emptybox wrote: »
    Although it sounds at first like a neat idea to have anybody be able to upload a picture, and it immediately appear on a big screen at the venue. You'll likely get some bright spark who'll take an inappropriate picture, knowing it'll be shown.

    Perhaps better have them upload to a FB page, and then someone responsible could transfer them to the Onedrive account to be displayed in the venue.
    Yes I know that means someone has to do a bit of curation work. But perhaps safer that way.
    Piccybabes wrote: »
    Thanks for the reply.


    Would the FB page self scroll I wonder so that when a new photo was uploaded it would move down?


    hmm - maybe not as easy as I thought.

    This was my thinking. Use FB as the upload page and then transfer pics to whatever program you wish.
    Eg a photo viewer prog that can display newest photo
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