How do you store and backup your photos ?

I agree with that but not deleting any unless they are clear duplicates, out of focus etc.

Instead I use a rating system to see only the best. I rate my photos 1 to 5 stars within Lightroom (a photo management tool) with 5 being the best. I try to use 5 stars sparingly, so only a couple of photos per month unless it's a wedding or other special event.

The tool has a filter so I can see more or less photos.

 

I've had similar happen with photos and some videos. I've had to resort to the backups to find non-corrupt versions and not always found any. I'm not sure what the answer to this is, certainly worrying.

 

We also have about a dozen physical files, 10" x 9" and 3" thick, that I don't think we have looked at in 10 years (with some probably 20+ years) and two large drawers fully of print photos that also haven't been looked at for that length of time. Some go back over 60 years from when I used to work on the ships.

Family history photos are all with my sister whose hubby is/was a photographer. He stores those and has also converted a lot to digital. I have all of the old photos also stored in my head which is good enough for me.

 

Good point about privacy. I looked into the terms and conditions of the main free cloud contenders and most had clauses like you give them an unlimited right to use your images as they see fit. That wasn't the exact wording but how I understood it as plain English. I recall only Amazon Prime cloud space didn't lay claim on your copyright or privacy. Youtube in particular worried me so am very careful not to post anything that they could use in the future.

I do use a subscription service and found most of those offer acceptable privacy hopefully not using your family images for marketing etc. I use Microsoft OneDrive cloud space as a temporary backup of my photos until I get round to downloading them to my PC. It costs £1.99 a month and isn't enough to store my whole collection. The trouble with the cloud from my point of view is how slow it takes to access, not like having media on an internal drive.

 

I'm in the less clutter camp having ripped my cd collection to hard disk mp3 files. I can listen to my old music anywhere now and no longer have a means to play a cd. But I couldn't bring myself to throw away the physical cds as I like the inserts, daft I know, as I never look at them.

I have a bigger vinyl collection that I'm more attached to sentimentality, again no equipment to play them any more.

 

Yes I remember Yes.I saw them a couple of times in the 70s. I keep thinking about getting some of my Yes album covers framed and hung on the stairs, except Mrs JWK wouldn't agree. Wonderful artwork by Roger Dean.

 

I still have a fair amount of vinyl including not only 78's but some 80's. Anyone remember those? They were mainly pre 1920's and usually classical music.

I sold quite a few LP's that I had found were worth quite a lot. Some went for £70 or £80

I have a more modern player (only from my point of view) that plays 78's, 45's, LP's, tapes and CD's and is also a radio and can convert records to CD's - if it still works as I don't know because I haven't tried for years.

In our loft I have an old music centre that plays records and has a radio and was bought about 50 or 60 years ago.