Storing your digital photos.

Every time I upload my pictures to my computer I delete them off my memory card. All though I am about a year behind. I usuallyy order the prints, scrapbook them, when I get enough to fill up a CD/DVD then I remove them from my computer and put them on a disk. I also make a DVD slideshow of our pictures to watch on the TV. I have been so busy that I haven't been able to scrapbook so I stopped ordering till I can get the pictures on my desk scrapped. AFter these are done I'm going to start doing digital scrapbook pages. Maybe that will make my process move along faster, lol

For another option, you can upload pictures to free hosting sties like PhotoBucket to save them in case something happens to your card or hard drive. PhotoBucket allows you to mark your albums private so only you will have access too them or giving people a password so that they can view them but not make changes to them. You can join and upload for free but they do have a membership program if you have thousands and thousands of images to store. Most of my friends use the free version and still have 80% of their alloted space free.

I only have one memory card for my camera (2Gb). When I am done taking pictures I upload them to my computer usually with a few minutes or days. I never keep them on the card for extended time because that means I can't take more pictures, lol. My camcorder takes pictures, too and I used that until a couple weeks ago when I got my new camera. the memory card I had was only 32mb so it only held like 100 low quality pics (the camera is very low megapixels). So I am used to clearing it often. But I also learned a valuable lesson last October about backing up the pictures on my hard drive. I had made a CD in June for my dad but hadn't saved anything since then and in October my hard drive crashed. I thought I had lost everything and was so upset. Luckily, last month, I was finally able to figure out how to fix it and I got all the pictures off the hard drive and saved to this new computer and to disk (a couple of disks actually). I don't print them because I have no where to keep all of that clutter so I still worry something will happen to the CD (hence why I make more then one). That being said--it is time for me to go back up the files again. Toodles.

That is true. Cards are better than magnetic tape but not a patch on CD or DVD's. Hard drives are pretty good and very cheap nowadays. Some of my old floppy discs have lost their magnetic charge and are now un-readable after 10 years. Even printed inks fade quite a bit so a CD or DVD is best at the moment. Maybe a regular (5 yearly?) transfer from old storage to new media is the best long term solution.

It depends on the quality of the Camera and the memory card you're using. Fir instance, if you use a Sony Digicam, you should go for an original memory stick. You might get an error if you use a fake memory stick which might be cheap. I've been using Sony Digicams and Handycams for years. I've never experienced any card error as such and I've never heard of it as well. I do transfer the pics to my PC quite often but there are some old ones in my Cam which haven't been wiped off by some error. But to be on a safer side, ou should have some backup copies in some CD, DVD or even a Pen Drive.

You should never keep your photos only on a disk or a hard drive. One bad electric surge, misplaced soda, or computer virus and your family memories are gone forever. So far after the research I have done putting your photos to CD seems to be the safest way to protect them. When I put the photos from the disk to the computer I make an immediate back up CD. Just to be safe.

I always put my photos to my computer and clear my camera... I always back them up on a a rewritable-cd ... I can always add new photo's to the cd when I have put them on my computer. So if my computer crashes I have them backed up. :)

i always store my digital photos in my computer!..it is one way of treasuring all my moments with my most specia persons in my life!...it's nice to look back a the memories through looking at the funny pictures, stolen shot pictures, and other things!...i ove colecting happy moments in my ife and hide until my last breathe!...i want them to know much i treasure every moment im with them!...

This happened to me on one occasion, although I wasn't storing the photos there, I had just taken them a few hours earlier. Normally once my card is full I would upload the pictures to my computer and save them there. After this happened though, I got into the habit of uploading the photos as soon as I was done taking them. Then I always make two copies of CD's with the pictures and that way if one CD fails for whatever reason, I still will have my photos.

After i have taken pictures on a certain occasion, i immediately store them at a computer hard disk but i do not yet delete the pictures as long as i havent printed them.. So far, i have stored pictures in a memory card for as long as four months and i havent experienced a card error. I guess it also depends on the quality of the MC. But its always safe to store pictures on disk rather than leave them in the memory card. Thanks for the tip anyway.

it is very nice to save your digitel photos and remember them when you are alone and want to recall your past for happiness

a photographer advised me to make 5 copies of back-up CDs, but what I do is make 3 back-up CDs and print a hardcopy, just like the traditional photo-print. From where I'm from, I can have 6 prints of 5x4 for $1. Since I love looking at pictures, specially my kids, I have it all printed out. If it reached 200-300 pictures, I have it printed immediately so it won't pile up.

yup mam, i think you should do it now b4 its too late, make it a habit to transfer all the images from your digital camera to your computer. In my case, I make transfers everytime I accumulated about 20-30 shots. Once the files are in your pc, save it to a cd-rw at once so that you have back-up copy just in case your pc breaks down.

Why would you want to store all your pictures on a memory card? Try to do it they way i do. Once my memory card reaches at least 80% and above I transfer them to my PC which in turn gets backup once a week or twice a month. Those are then stored on a more reliable HDD (BuffaloTech Terrastations coz their cheaper NAS). Also having two of those gives me enough assurance that even if one starts to fail i can start creating a 2nd backup from my other backups.

I never leave my photos on memory cards. I need to reuse the cards for work, and can't afford to drop $50 each time I've filled up a card. Also, someday the equipment (printers, computers, etc.) needed to download the pix off the card will no doubt change and if they aren't backed up on some other form of media, they'll be lost to obsolete technology. Also, as you pointed out, all you need is for something to happen to the card (including losing it) and your pictures are gone. I always download them into iPhoto AND into a separate folder on my hard drive that back up to CD or DVD. That way I have access to them on my HD and they're backed up.

I usually keep my pictures online. I have been having problems before about losing my file whenever I get computer trouble and I have to reformat it. So all the files get to be deleted. So now I just put it online.

I always download the pictures to the pc from the memory card after a 'big event' or holiday. I then sort them and put onto disc so that I can print or look at them from the disc. i also leave most of them on the pc but still have the back up disc in case of problems.

First of all, I'm a huge photo buff!! I took 7,000 pics last year (no, that's not a typo!!) I always download my pics to my computer and erase the memory card. What I've also done is bought an external hard drive, and all my photos are stored on that (in case the computer crashes). External hard drives are relatively cheap now, and I think it's a great and easy back up system. I also back up the same pics on CD's (yeah, I have them everywhere!) I just don't want to lose them! :)

I use Flickr (http://www.flickr.com) to store a high resolution JPEG of all my digital photos. Depending on how many you have you may need to 'go pro' with a paid account, but this is pretty cheap at just $25 (I think), which doesn't buy an awful lot of backup CDs. On Flickr I just upload everything I shoot, which can be up to 2 Gig a month depending on how much free time I get. This has the advantage of making it easier to share the pics with family, allowing them to print things I never get around to! It protects me from my computer dying, and keeps my cards empty for next time. Some would say Flickr, or any online photo site, shouldn't be the only place you store your pics as they could disappear. But the chances of ALL of Flickr disappearing, compared with the chance of my single hard drive failing is a bet I'm pretty keen on.

I store my picutres on memory cards. I bought three of them since storing digital pictures on a CD is even worse. I loose mine all the time plus CD's gets broeken easily. I also upload them online at multiply.com in case my my PC and memory card would crash.