A couple of weeks ago I was going through a bunch of photos that I took when teaching at the 3 workshops that I conducted in October and November. Usually a couple of weeks after a workshop I like to go through my photos and get them all organized on my computer and also on a separate hard drive.
As I was mounting
my SD card into the adapter and then onto my PC, I came to realise that nothing was happening and no matter what I tried it didn't mount on my desktop and then when I stuck it back into my camera the camera also wouldn't recognise the card any longer and it kept saying no SD card installed. In that week I had a total of 3 mini sd cards go bad on me. After searching the internet and reading up on these SD cards I came to understand that these cards are not the most secure place to store
images or data on and they tend to get corrupted very easily.
After having my data and images lost I wanted to let my students know not to store images on these SD cards for a long period of time. Get them stored on your computer and if possible on a Solid State Drive. Hard drives have moving parts while Solid State Drives don't, so it is somewhat safer to store data on a solid state.
Then I would also recommend storing your images and data in a 3rd place
and this place is the Cloud.
Storing images on the cloud has made me stop worrying about losing my images.
What is the cloud? It is a server on the world wide web that stores your data and images.
Storing images on the cloud is a safe way to store your images and it also has become very easy to do.
Places like
GooglePhotos.com and Apples
iCloud.com are places where you can store quite a bit of data.
With Google photos, if you are not storing super high rez images you can store an unlimited amount of photos. If you want to store high-resolution images on Google and you reach the limit of storage space you would then have to pay a fee to upgrade your storage
amount. I think Apple's iCloud gives you only so many megabytes and after the limit, you would also have to pay.
The best thing about storing photos from your phone and camera to the cloud is that if you set up your phone correctly it will instantly download your images that you take directly to your phone and the cloud. You can also have it not store your images on your phone so you can save disk space.
Once your images are on the cloud
you can retrieve your images on any device that has Google on it, like your phone or your computer or tablet. From your computer you can then download those images to another safe place like a solid state hard drive. But remember don't use SD cards for storage and don't learn the hard way like I did, start today and get your images stored in a safe place.
Below I found a nice tutorial on how to use Google Photos..... this can also be done on any Apple device.
I
recommend Google Photos because it doesn't cost anything for unlimited storage.
David
