![]() You probably have family albums filled with prints taken during the before-digital age, when film was our only option. In case you haven’t seen it, here’s a great article on printing and organizing your photos. It’s the best way to prevent them from digital loss and the added bonus is that they will not be sleeping on your hard drive anymore (let’s be honest, do you often browse your digital archives on your computer?) and will be easily accessible for the whole family on a daily basis! Print your images and place them in a photo album. I don’t even have to think about it, it’s running silently when my computer is switched on! 4. I personally use CrashPlan to automatically back-up my hard drive so that I have a mirror of my hard drive secured somewhere if something would happen to my computer. On the other hand, if you have thousands of images to save, or if you want to save your whole hard drive (not just your image files), you might consider using a cloud storage. ![]() If you’re not a heavy shooter, there are plenty of free online solutions that can be enough for you, like uploading your images to Flickr or Dropbox, or pay a small fee to secure your images on a web photo gallery like SmugMug. However, CDs/DVDs can be easily scratched or lost, so be sure to consider one additional back-up solution. It’s a cheap and easy option to have a back-up of your favorite images. If you are even more paranoid than I am, you can consider storing this external hard drive somewhere else (to avoid any risk of theft or fire) like at your parents’, or at work! 2. I use a LaCie Raid hard drive and I’m very happy about their products. With this system, you’re covered should one of the drives fail!). Since I’m slightly paranoid about losing my images, I actually save them on a RAID (basically, it’s an external hard drive that can back itself up internally through mirroring. Duplicating the content of your hard drive periodically on an external hard drive is something to consider if you don’t have another back-up solution yet. Make sure that your images are not saved only in one place (your desktop/laptop computer, for example). ![]() Here are a few options to secure your beloved memories: 1. Digital files are amazing in so many ways, but are desperately fragile. It can happen for so many reasons: hard drive failure, virus infection, stolen computer, lost USB drive, scratched CD or DVD. But there is another threat waiting for us around the corner, that is much more likely to strike, losing digital files. So I have to ask you one very important question: When was the last time you saved your pictures?įortunately, most of us won’t ever have to face the disaster of a burnt house. If you are reading this article, there is a high chance that photography is a passion to you. But those pictures they so badly wanted to save were their most treasured possessions because they represented their loving memories. Around that table, everybody else but me had no particular passion for photography. There were 10 people around the table, and 8 of them, including myself, replied, “my pictures”. Suddenly, one of the guests asked us: “If you had two minutes to save something in your house before it got totally burnt, what would that be?”. We all agreed about the fact that even if the most important thing was that nobody was hurt, it would be pretty traumatic to lose some of our most precious belongings. A few months ago I was attending a dinner and the conversation came to a sad story about one of the guest’s relatives whose house had recently burnt. ![]()
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