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General => Technical Help => Topic started by: linnet27 on Friday 15 December 17 22:00 GMT (UK)
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Hi
Not sure if this is the right place to ask! I have hundreds of photos on iPhone and laptop. My free iCloud storage is almost full and I am trying to find the best way of storing and organising photos.
Any help would be appreciated.
Lynne
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Make sure that you have a backup of everything. If something can go wrong, it will. Hardware fails, services end. WITHOUT WARNING. I've spent 40 years in IT, and I've seen too many tears shed over spilled data.
Martin
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I certainly agree with making backups of everything. There are plenty of free 'cloud' services you can use to increase capacity, but I would always regard them as temporary storage for the reasons Martin states.
I still use CDs or DVDs for a lot of my backups (you can get external DVD drives if necessary) as they seem more reliable than memory sticks, etc. but they are not really a long-term solution. Nothing is foolproof but the more copies you make on different media the more chance you have of one of them surviving.
Pictures you hope to preserve for posterity are best printed on good archive quality paper and stored in acid-free albums . . . but it's a big job, and not cheap if you have hundreds.
The more you think about it the harder it gets :-\
Mike.
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Thanks for the advice!
What system do people use to manage photos on a laptop? I would like to sort them into folders, family, holidays, etc.
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The method I use for organising files (of any type) is to set up sub-folders along the lines of WHO - WHAT- WHEN
So, for a family holiday set of pics I might have my main folder JONES, subfolder PHOTOS, subfolder FAMILY, subfolder 2012Brighton. For photos of ancestors I might have my main folder JONES, subfolder PHOTOS, subfolder ANCESTORS
Hope this helps
Philip
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I am a long time advocate of the now unsupported Google Picasa. The face recognition is brilliant. It is very full featured.
Martin
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I am a long time advocate of the now unsupported Google Picasa. The face recognition is brilliant. It is very full featured.
Martin
I too loved Picassa. But Picasa does not store your photos, it is merely a large shortcut to your photo library.
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I had Picasa on my previous laptop but I have Windows 10 now, hence my question!
Philip, if it's not a silly question, where do you create these folders? That sounds like the sort of thing I used to do in Picasa
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You can simply use the Windows file system. Open the Pictures folder, create a new folder, then sub-folders as necessary. As Philip has suggested.
Mike
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Thanks, will have a go tomorrow!