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kimbrellsf · RV-Dreams Family Member

Photos

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

With some of the online photo sharing sites, you can have an awful lot of space for photos. Some even have no limits at all. Photobucket is unlimited in the number of photos you can post to their site, and videos are limited to 500. Plus, it is free.

With that in mind, you could scan them all and post them to the photo sharing site. As a backup, I would also suggest saving all to a CD or DVD as well. Keep in mind, regardless of what some say, CD's and DVD's don't last as long as some want to claim.

Terry

Racerguy · RV-Dreams Family Member

Like Terry said we saved a lot to Photobucket then made albums for each kid(6) and each grandchild(6) then gave the rest to our siblings.To our surprise the grandchildren seemed more pleased with the albums than their parents.

Laura and Bunk · RV-Dreams Family Member

Racerguy, your right, the grandchildren have far more interest in the photos than the kids. I have been scanning for weeks now getting ready to go and the grandkids want the photos posted on line and then they want the actual photos! They also are taking a lot of the "old memories" that have been packed away forever. Of course their parents have to find a place to put it all biggrin

-- Edited by Laura and Bunk on Saturday 27th of August 2011 06:27:29 PM

Waggin Tails · RV-Dreams Family Member

I agree with the group of scan and give away. I highly recommend storing on flash drives instead of CD or DVD simply because CD and DVD drives have mechanical parts that can break. My daughter recently lost her main backup drive which just happened to be a large external hard drive. Flash memory is running about $2 per GB and there are no moving parts.

Just recently scanned my slides. Only kept about 25% of them. Those I tossed were of people and places that we just could not remember.

bjoyce · RV-Dreams Family Member

My sister-in-law just had a flash drive break in half and she wasn't doing anything rough with it. She was not happy since it had work files on it. Best to have more than one backup, DVDs and maybe flash drives.
I have multiple sets of DVD backups of my digital photos, about 200GB per set. I have lots of photos, negative and slides in storage that I need to scan someday. I take a lot of photos and have done so since I was a teenager.

kimbrellsf · RV-Dreams Family Member

I'm a back up nut. I back up to an external hard drive, plus use Carbonite. I figure with the dual approach, I should be covered. Better start scanning......

SueMac · RV-Dreams Family Member

I scanned in all our old photos, then boxed them up and saved them at our son's.

My hobby is photography so I have lots of photos from our travels. And I too am a back up nut. I have them on 2 computers, back up hard drives and DVD's. The more places the better. There are too many for a flash drive.

Rosie RV Thumper and Dog Dog · RV-Dreams Family Member

Hi Kim,

From one photographer to another I use an external drive 1 Terrabit to hold all my photos. That way I have access to the photos all the time. With being a backup nut thiss is the best of both worlds. If you would like to visit my website here is the link:

http://torkomian.artistwebsites.com/index.html

Good Luck

Thmper

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-- Edited by Terry and Jo on Thursday 26th of April 2012 09:17:57 PM

SueMac · RV-Dreams Family Member

Nice photos. Do you sell any? I've tried on some of mine, but none sold. So my photography is for our pleasure.

Here is my photo site:

http://sdwind.zenfolio.com/

Edit by moderator: Activated link. Terry

-- Edited by Terry and Jo on Thursday 26th of April 2012 09:19:21 PM

Neil and Connie · RV-Dreams Family Member

Scan, put them on a cloud storage service and put the family heirloom ones in storage unless somebody else in the family wants them.

For a storage service; I strongly recommend a pay service instead of a free service. Most of the free ones give themselves too many rights to use your photos as they wish and some even transfer ownership of the image copyright to the service. Given the small annual fee (I use smugmug.com and it's 60 bucks a year for a Power account which lets you store both video and still photos) and the fact that you retain complete control with the pay service, going the flickr or yahoo or google or picassa or whatever that's free route doesn't make a lot of sense to me.