With Winter refusing to release it's grip and being unable to work on my boats, I have had to find other ways to use up all my spare time. For this, I have been working on editing my photo's from past trips and in the process, learning the new software, Lightroom 5.
I had a hard drive crash in 2009 and lost all those photo's, or so I thought. Since then, I have an external hard drive that I back up everything on and keep some photo's on PhotoBucket as well, so I can post them on the various forums I frequent, but I have no intention of loading them all there. I have read where others have lost thousands of photo's when a site like PhotoBucket went under, so I won't risk that. Hard drives are not designed to last forever, otherwise they couldn't sell any more of them.
Yesterday, on the odd chance, I checked an old SD card and lo and behold, I found it still contained 90% of my photo's from 2009. I have since loaded them on my computer and have locked that card and will not use it again. SD cards are inexpensive enough now that I can just keep them instead of deleting as I go and have that as a third back up. I'm still looking for my original SD card, the meager 512kb card from when I bought my first digital camera to see what it might still hold.
I know some of you here have hordes of photo's so how do you store them and do you have multiple levels of back up to keep them secure?
Karin
I had a hard drive crash in 2009 and lost all those photo's, or so I thought. Since then, I have an external hard drive that I back up everything on and keep some photo's on PhotoBucket as well, so I can post them on the various forums I frequent, but I have no intention of loading them all there. I have read where others have lost thousands of photo's when a site like PhotoBucket went under, so I won't risk that. Hard drives are not designed to last forever, otherwise they couldn't sell any more of them.
Yesterday, on the odd chance, I checked an old SD card and lo and behold, I found it still contained 90% of my photo's from 2009. I have since loaded them on my computer and have locked that card and will not use it again. SD cards are inexpensive enough now that I can just keep them instead of deleting as I go and have that as a third back up. I'm still looking for my original SD card, the meager 512kb card from when I bought my first digital camera to see what it might still hold.
I know some of you here have hordes of photo's so how do you store them and do you have multiple levels of back up to keep them secure?
Karin