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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.
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.2 -
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.
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.
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.0 -
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.
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.
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
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Thanks everyone for the replies /help ,much appreciated.1
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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.3
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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.1
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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.
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.0
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