Storing Photos

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Lawrence

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Just wondering where you all store your photos. I know some guys use flickr - are there any other options. I was thinking iCloud.

I want to delete the bad ones and keep the ones that I currently like (not many) before I have too many to sort out. Good idea to start now.
 
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Michael J.

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on flickr I upload only those I share in other places.

I started to keep my "Good" photo on external Hard-disks. I have on for RAW and one for the PP JPEG's
 
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Lawrence

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Thanks guys. I have an external hard drive which I think will do just nicely. I had forgotten about it because it has movies on and I have seen them all.
​Happy days!
 
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nickt

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I have a few external hard drives. I have (and still do) dump my photos and documents onto an external hard drive every so often. About 6 months back, I picked up another WD drive for cheap. I experimented with the included continuous backup software. As expected, it sucked. Then I tried a few others. This one seems to work well for me: Genie9 (Formerly Genie-soft) Free Timeline | Download Free Backup Software for Windows
I think it is like every 8 hours that it backs up new files. The included WD software puts the drive to sleep when not used for a period of time so its not spinning its life away. This IS NOT an ideal backup setup, but it's better than just doing a manual BU every few months when I remember. Most of my pictures are not that important. 90% are just practice. For special occasions, I also dump the whole 'occasion' onto a dvd and tuck it away.

Cloud storage can be nice, but if you shoot raw, the files are huge and it could take forever to upload a lot.

Back in my early days, I used google's Picasa for editing. I still keep it around for its Gift CD function. It lets you take a batch of photos and create a self-launching slide show cd (windows only, I think). This is great to give to computer challenged family members. The jpgs are also available in a folder on the cd. This is Gift CD is also good for home use for special occasions. My wife will often request pictures from some birthday party, vacation, or whatever from several years back. So I look in the file box and hand her the cd.
 
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480sparky

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I subscribe to the theory that if your files don't have three separate, distinct Post Office addresses, they don't exist.

I have 6 external drives. Four are kept here in the house, one at a neighbors house, and one 874 miles away.
 
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Lawrence

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480sparky said:
I subscribe to the theory that if your files don't have three separate, distinct Post Office addresses, they don't exist.

I have 6 external drives. Four are kept here in the house, one at a neighbors house, and one 874 miles away.
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That's a bit OTT for me. I f i did the 874 miles thing in New Zealand they'd probably be in the sea! It does make sense to store it away from the house where the computer is though. Thanks guys.

This also means I need to only store the ones I really want.
 
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Ruidoso Bill

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GoDaddy has resonably priced storage. Also I upload for sale to Zenfolio and store a lot there since it is unlimited upload. Big problem is most ISP's only allow 1 Mbs for upload so online is very slow and something to do during the night hours. I also use external Hard Drives, paid for shoots are also backed up on DVD's.
 
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riverside

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Second internal HD and website (different state) daily backups. Websites have offered dirt cheap unlimited storage for quite some time including their own daily backup services. Very versatile for controlled customer and storage access purposes.
 
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kklor

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I have opted to skip the clouds as a couple of years ago one of the sites shut down w/o notice and had some friends who were pro's that lost access to their working capital for about 2 weeks until things got settled. I do hard drive on computer and triple external hard drives and then follow up with "M-Discs" for a hard copy with a 1,000 year rating.
 
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