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frehleycom
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19 days ago
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Photo storing sites...
I am looking for a site in which I can upload my pics. I have too many pics in my computer and they are taking to much room on my hard drive. I do not want to re-size them cause I use them for other reasons than just viewing. I have checked out just one site online and would like some feedback if anyone has any about this site http://myphotoalbum.com If anyone has any other site that works better please feel free to share. Thanks everyone for your help.
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Willtastic
19 days ago
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Any online storage site like Mozy would work well
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pezboy007
19 days ago
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Check out a fairly new service called CloudFire:
http://cloudfireit.com
You can save your photos (and videos) and then send a private email with a password which allows anyone to view your gallery instantly without needed to join or download anything.
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ben-s
18 days ago
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Cloudfire isn't a service I've heard of previously, and seems rather expensive compared to flickr for example, which costs less than half as much for a pro account...
Frehleycomet; have you considered getting an external hard drive?
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frehleycom
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18 days ago
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I have considered an external but I am afraid that they would crash as well. Thanks for the sites though and I will continue to look.
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pezboy007
18 days ago
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Does the pro account on Flickr include a private gallery? I didn't see anything about that on their site?
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Marleymax
18 days ago
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You can post any (and all) photos privately if you'd like. I have a pro account and do this for some design clients sometimes. Also, MorgueFile (http://morguefile.com) offers a free private storage service. It's very similar to Flickr and I post some images there (http://morguefile.com/creative/markmiller). There doesn't seem to be a size limit for the amount of used space. You wouldn't have to re-size your photos either. I don't know if I'd rely on this as my main back-up but it is very convenient.
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superdewa
15 days ago
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Be careful with flickr. I really enjoy flickr, but I wouldn't use it as my only photo back up. There are a lot of stories of good people's accounts being deleted for what seems like no good reason. Someone complains. They delete the account. And they don't keep a backup, so if for some reason your account were deleted, you'd have lost all your photos.
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frehleycom
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14 days ago
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What I'm also looking for is to store photos but when I need to download any one of them back to my computer to use on Photoshop or whatever reason that the resolution stays the same. Lots of sites will resize the picture to fit their needs. I have tried a few sites and when I download back to my computer the pics are in kb's. Not big enough to work with that size.
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pezboy007
14 days ago
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I'll once again suggest CloudFire (I am not affiliated with it at all, someone recommended it to me). It is more than storage, so it shouldn't be compared apples to apples with those types of sites. The site doesn't extol its many virtues very well, so I'll list them (as for what I think are benefits to photo and video sharing).
- No uploading. It finds your photo and video files on your computer - saves a lot of time with big files
- No size limitations - pretty amazing
- 100% resolution and no re-sizing
- Instant access to your galleries (they use some sort of peer to web and cloud system)
- 256 bit encryption security
- Nothing for your recipient to do other than click the link from the email you send
- Anyone can download the files from the gallery - frehleycomet this would take care of your problem
- competitive pricing $49/yr when compared to similar services (I'm sure this is debatable)
They offer a 14 day free trial so anyone can see if they like it.
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Willtastic
14 days ago
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pezboy007 wrote:
- No uploading. It finds your photo and video files on your computer - saves a lot of time with big files That's actually kind of scary! 
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usseryrl
12 days ago
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Wow superdewa I've never heard of flickr doing that before. That sort of worries me about that now.
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superdewa
12 days ago
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just google "flickr deleted account," and you will see lots of stories
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Degilbo
12 days ago
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My photos on-line are just there for sharing - flickr, Photobucket, Webshots and ACDSee Online. The fact that they can act as a back-up is a side benefit. I have four external hard drives and my photos are on all four. That would be the safest bet, frehleycomet.
The other way I backup too, is to move all files from the SD card to a DVD. They are saved there in digital # order as created by my camera. It includes any I may have discarded from my computer. I don't add anything - just save them by #.
Just remember, though, with file sizes, if you are saving as JPG (which most on-line services require), each time you "move" them about, the file degrades somewhat.
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frehleycom
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12 days ago
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I have heard that these externals also crash as easily or quicker than a PC would. Is there a way to save them on a dvd and not fully close the dvd to be able to add more at a later time? Or do you add so many and then that dvd is closed even if you have more space on that dvd? Thanks everyone for your help by the way.
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pezboy007
12 days ago
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Willtastic, why is it scary that CloudFire can find your photos and videos on your computer? It does so as an installed app, not from the web. What am I not getting? I'd hate to put myself in any kind of danger.
Thanks.
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superdewa
12 days ago
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frehley -- it's unlikely that all your hard drives would crash at once, if you didn't buy them at the same time and don't have them all plugged in at the same time.
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Degilbo
12 days ago
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Externals are the same type of hard drive you have in your computer. It is just that they are "packaged" in metal cases of varying designs. And just like your computer's internal hard drive, external drives will crash - eventually. Just a fact of life when using computer's. That is why I said I have four externals. Hopefully, all four wont crash at the same time :-).
With CD's/DVD's you can add more progressively until they are filled. Your burning program allows you to set the options for that. Just look for it when setting up the process. Of course, with the cost of CD's/DVD's being as low as what they are now, it doesn't really matter whether they are filled to their capacity. I can remember when DVD's came on to the market down here. They were a couple of dollars or more (each!). Thankfully, common sense has prevailed and now they are priced around 40 to 50 cents.
If you do resort to saving your images on DVD's, you will need to set up a good indexing system to help retrieve any particular one. A system I use with downloads would work well with your images. I use Excel worksheets as the data base. To create the index I use a handy little free application called DirPrinting from MajuSoft http://majusoft.de/DirPrinting/index_en.htm
DirPrinting will create a list of all the files n the CD/DVD which can then be pasted into an Excel worksheet. I number each CD/DVD and I add that number to each entry listed in the Excel workbook. You will need to have a good naming system for your images to make searching easy. The way I label my images is to use: YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS <name I add> - IMG_#### so that they look similar to this: 2009-11-08 09-44-43 Magpie-Lark - IMG_3472_2 . You will see on my flickr site that is how I post my digital images. My pre-digital ones are not as well numbered. What ever way you choose to title your images just make sure it is recognizable and searchable in the data base you construct. I have 52 CD's with downloads I have made over the years. Using the above system I can usually locate any particular download within a matter of seconds. Previously, it was a nightmare :-).
Externals are still your best bet with DVD's as additional insurance. Even external drives are getting cheaper by the month. Down here, it's now possible to buy a 1TB capacity external for around $130. Just a few short years back I paid that for one that held 80GB! So, check out prices and way up your options.
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RollsUp
12 days ago
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I think that there is no one foolproof way of creating a backup of ones photos. Internal and external HDDs will eventually crash, CDs/DVDs can break or get scratched, online site servers can crash or go out of business etc.
The best way to backup photos IMO is to have backups of the backups. I currently have my photos on an external HDD with a backup of it on another and some on DVDs/CDs. I would love to upload some originals to online sites but can't due to my internet connection.
So far none of my HDDs haven't crashed on me yet, 2 laptops and 4 externals, the oldest ones are 3 1/2 yrs old. Maybe I'm just lucky but it goes to show you that not all HDDs will fail easily.
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