YooHoot
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Post by YooHoot on Jul 15, 2024 23:23:37 GMT
My dds want a bunch of digital photographs from when they were little. I was a photographer and scrapbooker..I have so so so many. They don’t live near me…what’s the best way to get them copies of everything?
I was thinking individual hard drives, then I thought of a cloud based storage. Any suggestions? We are taking 12-15 years of digital.
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GiantsFan
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Post by GiantsFan on Jul 16, 2024 0:01:48 GMT
I created an Album in Google Photos, copied the photos to that album, then shared that album with certain family members.
Apple might have something similar if you use that platform.
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CeeScraps
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Post by CeeScraps on Jul 16, 2024 0:14:16 GMT
I had done this with my daughter using Drop Box. We shared it.
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Post by mom on Jul 16, 2024 0:14:56 GMT
We have used drop box in the past.
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Post by joylynaroundthebnd on Jul 16, 2024 0:33:11 GMT
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Post by Linda on Jul 16, 2024 1:43:58 GMT
I use google drive to share photos with family members (I've scanned 140 years of family photos)
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samantha25
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Post by samantha25 on Jul 16, 2024 1:48:41 GMT
If you have Amazon Prime, there is unlimited photo storage and you can share with family. I'm pretty sure Dropbox has a limited amount of free storage.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jul 16, 2024 3:38:30 GMT
I have 22 years worth of digital photos, waaaaay too many photos. My photos are all in my iCloud account, so I just gave DD access to my iCloud. It was so much easier than having to save them to a hard drive or uploading them to Dropbox etc.
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Post by Basket1lady on Jul 16, 2024 6:06:01 GMT
I make a Shared Album in Apple Photo and add people as needed. They can then add photos to their own album. I like this method because I don’t have to do anything extra other than to add them to the album.
When the kids were in school, I’d add photos to our group’s Facebook page.
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Post by minjoy on Jul 16, 2024 13:25:23 GMT
I would not use google just for the fact if she wants to save them to an EHD, it is so much work. You request the photos and they send you zip files but those files once open have extra junk files too.
I would suggest just copy them from your external hard drive to one for her, assuming you have them backed up somewhere other than cloud only.
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Post by caangel on Jul 16, 2024 13:59:55 GMT
I would not use google just for the fact if she wants to save them to an EHD, it is so much work. You request the photos and they send you zip files but those files once open have extra junk files too. I would suggest just copy them from your external hard drive to one for her, assuming you have them backed up somewhere other than cloud only. Hmm I do this all the time and never have extra junk files. But I'm going from Android to PC so not sure if that is part of it. I have over 150k photos in Google photos and regularly share albums with Apple people. Since Apple doesn't have any apps for Android when you share those cross platforms it takes us to a website, which is fine just not as nice as a dedicated working app. That said can be is easier to upload to Dropbox but I don't pay for that and I'm limited by the size of my free account. I also use Dropbox to automatically sync my photos to my desktop for back up so it is usually full. |
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Post by minjoy on Jul 16, 2024 15:35:28 GMT
I would not use google just for the fact if she wants to save them to an EHD, it is so much work. You request the photos and they send you zip files but those files once open have extra junk files too. I would suggest just copy them from your external hard drive to one for her, assuming you have them backed up somewhere other than cloud only. Hmm I do this all the time and never have extra junk files. But I'm going from Android to PC so not sure if that is part of it. I have over 150k photos in Google photos and regularly share albums with Apple people. Since Apple doesn't have any apps for Android when you share those cross platforms it takes us to a website, which is fine just not as nice as a dedicated working app. That said can be is easier to upload to Dropbox but I don't pay for that and I'm limited by the size of my free account. I also use Dropbox to automatically sync my photos to my desktop for back up so it is usually full. Have ever requested all your photo files from google? That’s what I’m referring too. They send them in big batches via zip files which are in no kind of order and also include these extra .json files. I used to use google as my cloud back up but wanted I wanted to move my cloud back up to Amazon and did not at the time have them backed up on an ehd so I had to get them all from google. I still use Google, but I also use Amazon and have my external hard drive now. If my external hard drive fails, I can easily get my photos from Amazon prime in the same order and file folder structure that they are and not have to deal with Google and starting over. I wanna add the sharing folders in Google is fine. I do that all the time. I just meant if the daughter wanted to download and save all these thousands of pictures to an external hard drive that it will be a lot of work. |
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caangel
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Post by caangel on Jul 16, 2024 20:39:28 GMT
Hmm I do this all the time and never have extra junk files. But I'm going from Android to PC so not sure if that is part of it. I have over 150k photos in Google photos and regularly share albums with Apple people. Since Apple doesn't have any apps for Android when you share those cross platforms it takes us to a website, which is fine just not as nice as a dedicated working app. That said can be is easier to upload to Dropbox but I don't pay for that and I'm limited by the size of my free account. I also use Dropbox to automatically sync my photos to my desktop for back up so it is usually full. Have ever requested all your photo files from google? That’s what I’m referring too. They send them in big batches via zip files which are in no kind of order and also include these extra .json files. I used to use google as my cloud back up but wanted I wanted to move my cloud back up to Amazon and did not at the time have them backed up on an ehd so I had to get them all from google. I still use Google, but I also use Amazon and have my external hard drive now. If my external hard drive fails, I can easily get my photos from Amazon prime in the same order and file folder structure that they are and not have to deal with Google and starting over. I wanna add the sharing folders in Google is fine. I do that all the time. I just meant if the daughter wanted to download and save all these thousands of pictures to an external hard drive that it will be a lot of work. Ahh no not downloading my entire library. I have no intention of do that since it is all backed up. On a hard drive. But if you download more than one photo it puts it into a zip file. Not the end of the world but one more step. It took a week + to upload all my photos when I first started and I think I had about 40k, I knew then I needed to have an on going backup plan because it would take forever to download everything as I would only be adding more. |
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