Free Cloud storage

DullGreyGuy

Bridlington1 said:

I keep a list of what's backed up where, this is stored digitally so I can search for where items are stored using ctrl+F pretty easily, if I need to access anything I just search for what I want in the document, then log in to wherever it is stored.

And how does that work for photos? Are you really that good at giving each and every photo a proper name, cataloguing them all etc? 

The Mrs has a few hundred thousand photos probably all named IMG12345678.jpg but can easily find them only because they're all in a single photo app which self indexes all the meta data of the image such as where and when it was taken etc. 

Bridlington1

DullGreyGuy said:

Bridlington1 said:

I keep a list of what's backed up where, this is stored digitally so I can search for where items are stored using ctrl+F pretty easily, if I need to access anything I just search for what I want in the document, then log in to wherever it is stored.

And how does that work for photos? Are you really that good at giving each and every photo a proper name, cataloguing them all etc? 

The Mrs has a few hundred thousand photos probably all named IMG12345678.jpg but can easily find them only because they're all in a single photo app which self indexes all the meta data of the image such as where and when it was taken etc. 

To be fair all of my photos/short clips combined only comes to around 4GB so they can all fit in one place under the listing ``photos". I don't name each individual photo but I do sort them into folders depending on when I've taken them, e.g. ``[insert name]'s birthday 2020", ``Holiday [insert place] [insert dates]" etc.

If I ever did end up with a few hundred thousand photos and couldn't fit them all in one place I'd probably end up splitting the folders into types e.g. holiday photos on one cloud, special occasions on another etc. Granted it doesn't give all the meta data that your app does but that's one of the trade offs.

cerebus

DullGreyGuy said:

Bridlington1 said:

I keep a list of what's backed up where, this is stored digitally so I can search for where items are stored using ctrl+F pretty easily, if I need to access anything I just search for what I want in the document, then log in to wherever it is stored.

And how does that work for photos? Are you really that good at giving each and every photo a proper name, cataloguing them all etc? 

The Mrs has a few hundred thousand photos probably all named IMG12345678.jpg but can easily find them only because they're all in a single photo app which self indexes all the meta data of the image such as where and when it was taken etc. 

This is why I could never have hundreds of free cloud storage, the admin is enormous no matter what people say, hundreds of different email accounts to keep track of and passwords, locations of every thing on the drives, organisation of files (can't be easy to know if you have duplicates) , renaming of files so you can search for them,  the stress of having to move stuff or keeping an account active to stop stuff getting deleted, knowing that if you have a hard drive failure that digital list is gone. There also doesn't appear to be any form of backup for these files stored in the cloud. I could go on 

For me I'm more than happy to spend £30 on a hard drive (a one off payment). I can back up my 3 devices in minutes as I save everything into one folder organised into sub folders , therefore just need to copy that one folder and it takes seconds to copy and paste

Ganga

Thanks everyone for the replies /help ,much appreciated.

chunter

I'm another for keeping the storage local.

I know, several years ago, I was attempting to download photos off the awful Apple icloud,

It was infuriating awkward. Deliberately so, so people would give up and simply pay the ransom to Apple.

...And then these people die and the cloud account is closed because it's not renewed and all the photos are lost anyway.

PHK

chunter said:

I'm another for keeping the storage local.

I know, several years ago, I was attempting to download photos off the awful Apple icloud,

It was infuriating awkward. Deliberately so, so people would give up and simply pay the ransom to Apple.

...And then these people die and the cloud account is closed because it's not renewed and all the photos are lost anyway.

No, you appoint a legacy contact (iOS), inactive account contact (Android) when you die they get three months to download or take over your account. 

DullGreyGuy

chunter said:

And then these people die and the cloud account is closed because it's not renewed and all the photos are lost anyway.

In the latest version of iOS you can setup your "legacy" so that person can easily get access to your data on confirmation of your death

I used to have it such that iCloud and my desktop kept the full library but no longer have a desktop and Photos via a wifi NAS aint great.