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Keep your photos safe, a word of warning

These days everything is digital, it is the buzz word. We get excited by how many megapixels our camera has, and how many gigabytes, if not terrabytes our computer has. OK maybe that is just the men I am talking about here. What is often overlooked by most of us however, is how will we store the hundreds, thousands of photos and other important documents we produce and store them safely!  Do you keep your photos safe?

There was once a day when we printed all our photos whether or not we liked them and then we binned the ones that didn’t turn out well. The great thing about digital is that we no longer waste the worlds resources by printing unwanted photos. This means that instead we store them on our laptops and desktop computers. In the old days though the easiest way to lose all of our negatives and photos would be via a flood or fire. These days it is frighteningly much more easy to lose our photos and files. With digital images it is not a case of if our computer will fail us, but a case of when!

So what’s the solution? I don’t need to tell you that you can copy all of your precious photos to DVD to keep your photos safe. However, how many people do that? Or how many people have another hard drive they can copy all their computer files onto? Now if you are one of those people who copies their files to DVD, good for you. What you may not have considered though is that DVDs have a limited time span too.  One day they will just stop working, as the DVD breaks down and becomes unreadable.

This could potentially become a growing problem; people around the world are creating thousands of files that are all waiting to be wiped out by computer error or DVD disc failure. So my warning to you is to make sure you keep your photos safe by keeping them in more than one place.

Maybe you won’t keep your photos safe, but I will

Now it won’t come as a surprise that I generate an awful lots of photos with all these weddings I photograph. What’s my system? Well I too use DVDs but I also have a backup hard drive and use Apple’s “Time Machine” to automatically copy all my files to a safe place. This way all your precious wedding photos will still be around even if you lose the DVD you bought from me.

With hard drives being as cheap as they are these days, don’t delay, back up today!!

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