Use And Store Each Year's Photo Memory Card
I purchase a new memory card each January and use it throughout the year. At the end of the year I will mark the card with 2008 and put it in our fire proof safe.
The memory card acts as your negatives, if your computer crashes, you will have a backup be able to replace your treasured photos
By PICO from ST PAUL, ALBERTA
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RE: Use And Store Each Year's Photo Memory Card
That is a good idea. You can also purchase a Pocket hard Drive for storing pics and documents. My mom does this and Purchased one for me aswell. We keep it in a fire safe box and download pic to it after any event . So we will never be missing any pics if there were a fire or lost camera
Post by Bonitabp
RE: Use And Store Each Year's Photo Memory Card
That is a good idea. You can also purchase a Pocket hard Drive for storing pics and documents. My mom does this and Purchased one for me aswell. We keep it in a fire safe box and download pic to it after any event . So we will never be missing any pics if there were a fire or lost camera
Post by Bonitabp
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I just download mine to the computer. Then I send them to an external hard drive for safe keeping. I don't have my external hard drive plugged in unless I need to remove things that I want to keep. I also just burn them off to a CD.
Post By Madeline (Guest Post)
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i've done the same thing as Heather..flash drives. what an awesome wee invention....
Post by druidana
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I burn my pictures every month or two because I take a LOT of pictures with kids. I burn them twice. I keep one in my safe and I take one two my Dad's house. Just in case, God forbid, my house would ever burn and possibly melt the CD in my safe I have one off site.
Post By Mary (Guest Post)
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Why not use a usb flash drive and keep adding pics to it. Just an idea.
Post By Heather (Guest Post)
RE: Use And Store Each Year's Photo Memory Card
That sounds like a good idea -- certainly smaller to fit in a safe than a stack of CD's. But I'm kind of confused --what if you take more pictures than your memory card will hold? Do you have multiple memory cards throughout one year?
Post By Kathy (Guest Post)
RE: Use And Store Each Year's Photo Memory Card
Good idea! Just remember that some memory cards get discontinued after a few years, when a new technology comes along. In ten or fifteen years, will you be able to use your same memory card reader? Possibly not. Perhaps you could burn the pictures to a CD (or DVD, if you have a burner), and store that in your safe as well. It can't hurt to have several methods of back-up!
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