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Advice On Storing Photos? Okay...I need some advice. I cannot find a FREE photo storage dealio that I like. Hotmail/Windows Live offers 25G (yes!!) of free photo storage, which would be great - however - you can only upload 5 photos at a time. At that rate, I'd be 90 before I got them uploaded, for the love of Mike. Ya know? Then flickr - with the free version, I don't have enough folders to sort. :( So, I guess I'm looking for: *Free *Fast upload (many pics at a time) *Ability to sort into many folders Anyone have some photastic advice? |
You are not going to be happy storing ALL your photos on line. I use a free google program to manage them locally (Picasa 3: Free download from Google) If you want a place to store your photos, think about an external disk drive. You can get a 500G drive for about $75. |
I got a Flickr account and got annoyed by the daily upload limit and I just paid the $25 or whatever it was for the year. I'm pretty happy with it. Server space costs more than that per MONTH so I decided it was worth it. P.S. The iPhoto->Flickr account instant upload helped my decision a bit :) |
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My main thing is I want them off of my C drive, just to keep them safe. I now store all of my personal documents (not photos) on Box.net and I freakin' LOVE it. I can access my documents from anywhere, and it acts as a "backup" in a sense, as well. Soooo, I was thinking of doing the same for my photos. But, now I'm wondering if I should just keep them on my 16gb flash drive - after reading what you said. Confused. |
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You don't know about Photobucket? It's great; you get 1 gig for free. They have a bulk uploader, and you can have as many albums as you like. They have a new feature that allows you to organize and sort photos in your albums, and it's really easy to share. You can set your account to private, if you don't want people to see all your pictures, but you can still link and post individual photos. I did get an e-mail from Cox the other day that said they said they have a new free photo hosting site, but I haven't tried it yet. |
I use Kodak Gallery. The upload time is a bit slow, but I think you can make it faster somehow with firefox. I need to have my brother explain it to me!:rolleyes: I really like the way you can orginize albums and I have ordered prints from them before and I'm always VERY happy with the printing! My cousin and I are both Nikon dslr photography freaks and we both recomend Kodakgallery.com! She has tons more albums than I do but I just got my D80 so I will have to try to keep up! |
I was just playing around with my hotmail account and figured something out. Go to create an album, then you'll see the 5 lines for uploading. Just above that there is a link that says "Download" something or other for uploading -- if you do this, you will be able to drag & drop as many files as you want to upload them all at once!! I just did it, and it worked for me! |
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Have you considered using an external firewire or usb hard drive? That way, if you ever need your pics and don't have access to the internet for whatever reason, you have the drive that you can connect to any computer.s I have a Seagate One Terabyte drive (1000 gigs), that does automatic backups of my photo computer and drives (completely customizable). I use this drive for storing photos and video only. So if computer ever fails, I have it all physically. I don't know, but internet back ups scare me, lol |
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Where did you get that drive? I looked for it on amazon and not sure I'm finding the right one. For auto-backups, do you have to remember to always leave the drive connected then (I have a laptop)? And then you just program the backups through utilities? |
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Hi Ann, They are more reliable than the internet, IMHO. :) I bought mine at Best Buy, but I am sure they are available at many online and other electronci stores. It is called a FreeAgent Drive and there are different versions. There is no remembering involved. All you have to do is set up what drives you want backed up and when, and the drive does the rest. For example, I do a lot of photo/video stuff, and I have the drive set up to do auto backups on all pictures/video. Thats it. Nothing more. You can leave it powered all the time, I have a desktop, but all you have to do with a laptop is make sure to connect it to the usb/ and or firewire. Heres a link to some of the Seagate drives, but I am sure there are others, like Western Digital available FreeAgent: USB 2.0 External, Portable & Desktop Hard Drives - Data Backups | Seagate |
Thank you MaryKay - this is so helpful :D! I'm checking them out online right now... |
ImageShack is a good one, too. I don't use it that often, but I know you can store pictures for free on there. :) |
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