Photo Tip: Back up your photos!

These days just about everyone has a digital camera and they save their photos on their computer. Today’s computers are yesterday’s photo albums. All of your photographic memories are on your computer.

My question to you: when was the last time you backed up your photos? By back up, I mean copied the photos to DVDs or external hard drives. Most people will answer this with one word, Never!

Not backing up your digital photos is a very dangerous thing. Computer hard drives fail. It does not matter if you are a “Mac Person” or a “PC Person”, hard drives will fail. If the hard drive fails you could lose ALL of your photos! All of those family memories will be needlessly lost.

You can prevent that disaster by backing up. External hard drives are about $100 and are connected to computers in minutes. You can copy all of your photos to the external hard drive in minutes. Many of the hard drives come with software that will let you set the computer up to back up the photos automatically.

If the external drive is not for you then you should at least make copes of the photos onto DVDs. This takes a little more time, but it could save you in the long run.

Backing up your photos now could prevent a tragedy later.

Posted by: admin | 07-08-2009 | 05:07 PM
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