Legal question: New buildings close to large tree at the bottom of my garden

NeverTooLate

lemondrops69 said:

FreeBear said:

lemondrops69 said:

FreeBear said:

scrimperjan said: unfortunately I have only just bought the house so I don't have any old photographs,

Street view or satellite images from something like Google Earth ?

Archive a few on CD and get some good quality prints made to shove in a file (even CDs are not reliable for long term storage of data).

On a CD? Thats a bit retro

Or you could go for a memory stick and hope that it will last as long. I doubt the archival qualities of memory sticks are any better than CDs.

Cd's will last 2-5 years, memory sticks maybe 10 years. Lots of people use whats known as the 'cloud' these days. You can google it if you've not heard of it

You need to tell that to all my music cd's some of which are 30 years old and still working!

FreeBear

lemondrops69 said:

FreeBear said:

lemondrops69 said:

FreeBear said:

scrimperjan said: unfortunately I have only just bought the house so I don't have any old photographs,

Street view or satellite images from something like Google Earth ?

Archive a few on CD and get some good quality prints made to shove in a file (even CDs are not reliable for long term storage of data).

On a CD? Thats a bit retro

Or you could go for a memory stick and hope that it will last as long. I doubt the archival qualities of memory sticks are any better than CDs.

Cd's will last 2-5 years, memory sticks maybe 10 years. Lots of people use whats known as the 'cloud' these days. You can google it if you've not heard of it

"Cloud storage" is all well and good, but you are relying on a third party to maintain the equipment and ensure data integrity & security. On top of that, if the internet connection at either end goes down, the data is not accessible. Then if you don't pay the monthly service charges your data disappears.. Whilst there "free" storage sites, you are at the mercy of changes in policy and could very well end up with having to pay at some point.

If you must use cloud storage, keep some backups locally on an archival quality media (C-prints for photos).

Belenus

NeverTooLate said:

lemondrops69 said:

FreeBear said:

lemondrops69 said:

FreeBear said:

scrimperjan said: unfortunately I have only just bought the house so I don't have any old photographs,

Street view or satellite images from something like Google Earth ?

Archive a few on CD and get some good quality prints made to shove in a file (even CDs are not reliable for long term storage of data).

On a CD? Thats a bit retro

Or you could go for a memory stick and hope that it will last as long. I doubt the archival qualities of memory sticks are any better than CDs.

Cd's will last 2-5 years, memory sticks maybe 10 years. Lots of people use whats known as the 'cloud' these days. You can google it if you've not heard of it

You need to tell that to all my music cd's some of which are 30 years old and still working!

FB was probably referring to recordable CD-Rs and CD-RWs etc and not factory produced CDs although I have a few CD-RWs that are 15 years old and more and are still readable.

I remember when I first bought music CDs in about 1983 I was warned that they wouldn't last more than about 10 years.

38 years and 2,500 CDs later I still await my first failure.

I am slowly ripping my CD music collection to FLAC, mainly because of the convenience of FLAC but partly just in case I lose my CD collection or they start to fail.