Photos, Storage Etc

I think someone has posted something like this before, but I cant find it in the search function.

What do you do with your photos? Do you burn them to disc and store them, then delete them? I know I need to do this as I have run out of room on my computer. I am just so terrified of losing my cds, and I love the convinience of being able to browse through my pictures.

I thought about putting them on an online gallery, so I uploaded some to Flickr.com. The first few that I did sent me over my "monthly limit". I have so so many, Im guessing if I did decide to upload them all I would surely go over my usage allowance for broadband?! I have 1000s of photos.

Also, does anyone know how many MB a pic should be for printing?I thought if I did downsize my photos (they are about 10MB each ) I could have them online and print from there if need be, but worry about losing all the quality?

While i am all for dgital photos etc. I really do think that you are best to print off your favs and put them into an album. At this stage noone knows how long photos that are stored will last we do know though that printed photos providing they are kept last a long time look at how many photos of 1800 are around. The best suggestion i can give you is to print some out and to store them i have done this with phots from our trips overseas. a CD was easy for me but a memory stick may work too. I guess what i am trying to say is make sure you have photos stored in multiple methods they are far too precious to lose.

An external hard drive in on my "Wish List" at the moment... *sigh*

I am struggling with this too, I think I have a problem and cant stop taking photos I am very quickly taking over 2 computers.

I have been meaning to get some disks and print a whole lot off. I have a USB stick (is that the same sort of thing as an external hard drive?) But I'm scared of loosing it and In my mind it just doesn't seem safe enough.

I have my favourites on facebook so if wort come to worst....

Don't forget, if you're using an external hard drive you can't have it permanently plugged into your computer if you want everything to be "safe." If your computer catches something, so will the hard drive. My friend's business partner just found that out the hard way, she lost ALL their photos (and all their work stuff - lucky my friend also backs up everything at the end of the day!).

Having said that, we have all our photos up to 2007 on a separate external hard drive but everythng after that is on this laptop. Really need to get onto moving stuff off, but like kaiz, I like to be able to browse through old pics whenever I like! I've got "favourites" on facebook and picasa though so I could look through those I guess.....

External hard drive here too when I remember. But if we had to leave the house in a rush I'd have a baby under one arm and my iMac under the other provided of course DH was there to carry the other baby, lol!


Facebook and youtube are my friends. I regularly send emails to family with photos and clips and they tend to be the favourite ones.

Edited by tishy

I SO need to get onto this too, I lost ALL my photos from our computer a few years ago because it was stolen - I was absolutly guttered.

I back up my photos now onto CD - but I feel I want more than that now too.

How much is an extenal drive?

Do you guys print your photos out?

I would say external hard drive also.

I store photos on snapfish.co.nz and order prints/gifts off the site also. Only thing I find annoying is you can upload at full size but can't download at full size, for free anyway (I think they charge 25c per pic)

You could also buy just a hard drive ($110 the other day for a 500gb harddrive) and buy an external enclosure for it.. pretty cheap on trademe.. :)

Then when it gets full, put it somewhere safe, buy a new drive and put it in the enclosure.. that's what we do here..

Hard drives themselves are soo cheap its ridiculous these days.

A solid external drive in a case is anywhere from $150 - $300 depending on size too..