Easy Way to Back-Up Your Photos
By CarolDM
@CarolDM (203396)
Nashville, Tennessee
September 17, 2019 4:09pm CST
With thousands of photos on my computer, and even though I use the cloud for backup, I also use (thumb-sized) thumb drives for my photos and any other important documents on my computer to keep in a safe place.
I hope this helps answer some of your questions @crazyhorseladycx.
These are a great inexpensive way to back up your photos.
A thumb drive is a little computer storage unit, about the size of a small thumb, with a USB connector on one end. They come in various storage capacities and speeds and you can spend anywhere from $5 dollars up to $100 dollars for one, depending on how much storage you want and how fast you want it to be.
You can buy them in many places, including Amazon, WalMart and Best Buy.
To use it, you just plug it into a USB port on your computer, and it shows up on the computer as if it were just another hard drive. You can copy and paste files to and from it, like any other drive. It's for transferring files from one computer to another.
You can get all sizes as well. 156MB, 1GB, 2GB, etc.
Here is a YouTube video that shows step by step how to use these little thumb drives. There are many other sites and videos out there that also explain in detail how to use these thumb drives.
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@moffittjc (128833)
• Gainesville, Florida
17 Sep 19
I have an external hard drive that I use to back everything up. I believe it can hold 1 TB of information. I have been using it for several years, and probably haven't even used 10% of it's capacity yet! And I still do use thumb drives every now and then as well, as they are easy to carry around and can be used to transfer information quickly!
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@moffittjc (128833)
• Gainesville, Florida
17 Sep 19
@CarolDM What is the time machine through the Apple software? I'm not familiar with this.
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
17 Sep 19
@moffittjc This is what Apple calls their external hard drive. It is also the wifi router.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
18 Sep 19
i watched the video 'n now confess to bein' more confused, lol. how do ya know what'cha got'n said flash drives? 'tis there a safe way to label 'em? i filled a 320gb 'xternal drive purty quickly... now've a 3tb. would be nice to've a flash drive 'r 2. the hubs complains he's no pics'n his puter.
thanks fer the article, hon. might fetch one'n surprise him whilst he's gone huntin'.
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
18 Sep 19
I am sorry! You can put a label on them, yes. Or use a black sharpie to write on them, whatever is easier. Or put them in an envelope and write on the envelope. Was trying to make it easy for you. They are inexpensive and come in many different sizes.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
18 Sep 19
@CarolDM oh, don't be, hon! i 'ppreciate the info. i'm most challenged'n these. the son tells me 'tis not diff'rent than back'n the day savin' schtuff to floppy disks - jest faster'n holds more'n less space, lol.
i'd like to get the pics sorted - diff'rent bird species, critters, etc. ya know, so i might've better luck huntin' 'em down when i want one? dang if'n i can't spend several hours searchin' fer such!
didn't realize they'd 'nough room to be written 'pon. i'd need some sort'a system though with so many pics/files needin' saved.
thanks much, ms. carol!
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
18 Sep 19
@crazyhorseladycx I wish we lived closer, I would love to help you. I have mine in albums, and dates. I hope your son can do this for you. It takes a lot of time but is so much easier. My 25,000 photos are on one thumb drive, just one!
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@snowy22315 (208821)
• United States
18 Sep 19
I should get another flash drive. I haven't used one for quite a while.
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@snowy22315 (208821)
• United States
18 Sep 19
@CarolDM It's a good idea. I had several photos that should have been saved on my phone, but they aren't there now..and I am not sure why..at one point I deleted some photos..and I think they were casualities...
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
18 Sep 19
@snowy22315 Sometimes you can recover deleted photos, just depends on how long ago you deleted them.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
18 Sep 19
Flashdrives are good - but remember their life is between 9-10 years only. so replace them every once in awhile!!!! Good backup system Carol!!!!
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
18 Sep 19
@CarolDM You should be! by three levels you mean you pc, and the memory cards and then finally somewhere in the cloud?
@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
18 Sep 19
I use all the above, the cloud and the thumb drives and an external hard drive, I am a little paranoid about my photos.
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@yoalldudes (35030)
• Philippines
18 Sep 19
I realized the importance of backing up when I downloaded something online and turned out to be seto virus which ruined all my files.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (89487)
• Rupert, Idaho
18 Sep 19
I have quite a few of these! I also use SD cards for the same purpose.
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@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
17 Sep 19
Mike are backed up to the Cloud, and for good measure, the ones that are really important to me I email to myself, I do have a thumb drive an Olaf one fro. When Little Miss was going through her Frozen Stage though lol, and I do need to pick up more, I have tons of writing files!
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@LindaOHio (222280)
• United States
17 Sep 19
I keep a lot of my documents on flash (or thumb) drives. I have several that I use for different things. One is just for pictures that I've been sent via email that I want to print out. I also have some Bing pictures on it that were some of my favorites that I print out as well.
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