Comments on: New Poll: How Many Digital Photos Are Stored On Your Computer http://cybernetnews.com/new-poll-how-many-digital-photos-are-stored-on-your-computer/ Technology News Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:18:25 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/new-poll-how-many-digital-photos-are-stored-on-your-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-140432 Ryan Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:34:32 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13565#comment-140432 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-140417" rel="nofollow">Change wrote:</a><blockquote>Thanks for that link Ryan, nice overview on that page! You have a good point about the popularity of Flickr.. you’ve just made me doubt about getting a Pro account again :P I’ve been doubting between Flickr, Amazon S3, Google, ADrive, Mozy and some others.</blockquote></div> The main reason that I like Flickr is that they make it easy to share photos with family members without them needing an account. I can generate a "guest pass" that is a specialized hyperlink that I can send to people. If I want that link can be restricted to one set of photos so that they can't even see everything I've posted. I can also retract that link at anytime which essentially kills it off... useful in case it starts getting spread around or whatever. So its the photo sharing features that I love the most with Flickr (I keep all my photos private), plus the fact that that they offer unlimited bandwidth and storage is extremely nice. Change wrote:
Thanks for that link Ryan, nice overview on that page! You have a good point about the popularity of Flickr.. you’ve just made me doubt about getting a Pro account again :P I’ve been doubting between Flickr, Amazon S3, Google, ADrive, Mozy and some others.

The main reason that I like Flickr is that they make it easy to share photos with family members without them needing an account. I can generate a “guest pass” that is a specialized hyperlink that I can send to people. If I want that link can be restricted to one set of photos so that they can’t even see everything I’ve posted. I can also retract that link at anytime which essentially kills it off… useful in case it starts getting spread around or whatever. So its the photo sharing features that I love the most with Flickr (I keep all my photos private), plus the fact that that they offer unlimited bandwidth and storage is extremely nice.

]]> By: Change http://cybernetnews.com/new-poll-how-many-digital-photos-are-stored-on-your-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-140417 Change Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:00:20 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13565#comment-140417 Thanks for that link Ryan, nice overview on that page! You have a good point about the popularity of Flickr.. you've just made me doubt about getting a Pro account again :P I've been doubting between Flickr, Amazon S3, Google, ADrive, Mozy and some others. Thanks for that link Ryan, nice overview on that page! You have a good point about the popularity of Flickr.. you’ve just made me doubt about getting a Pro account again :P I’ve been doubting between Flickr, Amazon S3, Google, ADrive, Mozy and some others.

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/new-poll-how-many-digital-photos-are-stored-on-your-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-140409 Ryan Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:59:49 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13565#comment-140409 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-140376" rel="nofollow">Change wrote:</a><blockquote>M1ke, I’ve been looking at the same solution, but got stuck at the question: How will I get it out of Flickr if I ever want to move or back it up elsewhere? As far as I know, you cannot mass-download the original files from Flickr and I don’t really feel like doing it file-by-file with over 15,000 photos :P Did you find a solution for this?</blockquote></div> There's actually a few good solutions for doing this: http://cybernetnews.com/cybernotes-download-backup-flickr-images/ As long as Flickr continues to be popular there will always be developers creating ways to retrieve images from the service. So I don't think it's something you really need to worry about. <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-140388" rel="nofollow">Conchur wrote:</a><blockquote>I’ve about 16k photos (about 75GB) on my local machine, synced to two Terastation NAS, and uploaded to Picasa Web Storage. You have to pay Google extra for the storage, you only get 1 GB for free - but you can download full-res albums as a single zip…</blockquote></div> Huh, I didn't realize you can download whole albums as a single ZIP file on Picasa. That's pretty nice. Change wrote:
M1ke, I’ve been looking at the same solution, but got stuck at the question: How will I get it out of Flickr if I ever want to move or back it up elsewhere? As far as I know, you cannot mass-download the original files from Flickr and I don’t really feel like doing it file-by-file with over 15,000 photos :P Did you find a solution for this?

There’s actually a few good solutions for doing this:
[cybernetnews.com]

As long as Flickr continues to be popular there will always be developers creating ways to retrieve images from the service. So I don’t think it’s something you really need to worry about.

Conchur wrote:
I’ve about 16k photos (about 75GB) on my local machine, synced to two Terastation NAS, and uploaded to Picasa Web Storage. You have to pay Google extra for the storage, you only get 1 GB for free – but you can download full-res albums as a single zip…

Huh, I didn’t realize you can download whole albums as a single ZIP file on Picasa. That’s pretty nice.

]]> By: Conchur http://cybernetnews.com/new-poll-how-many-digital-photos-are-stored-on-your-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-140388 Conchur Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:46:27 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13565#comment-140388 I've about 16k photos (about 75GB) on my local machine, synced to two Terastation NAS, and uploaded to Picasa Web Storage. You have to pay Google extra for the storage, you only get 1 GB for free - but you can download full-res albums as a single zip... I’ve about 16k photos (about 75GB) on my local machine, synced to two Terastation NAS, and uploaded to Picasa Web Storage. You have to pay Google extra for the storage, you only get 1 GB for free – but you can download full-res albums as a single zip…

]]> By: Change http://cybernetnews.com/new-poll-how-many-digital-photos-are-stored-on-your-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-140381 Change Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:14:43 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13565#comment-140381 @Anonymous Hmm, looks like a good solution, but it worries me that it's not officially supported by Flickr. Looking at the amount of releases, it looks like you're in trouble once the developer decides to call it quits. Not sure if I'd like to depend on that.. @Anonymous
Hmm, looks like a good solution, but it worries me that it’s not officially supported by Flickr. Looking at the amount of releases, it looks like you’re in trouble once the developer decides to call it quits. Not sure if I’d like to depend on that..

]]> By: Anonymous http://cybernetnews.com/new-poll-how-many-digital-photos-are-stored-on-your-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-140378 Anonymous Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:00:45 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13565#comment-140378 @Change Try using FlickrDown. @Change
Try using FlickrDown.

]]> By: Change http://cybernetnews.com/new-poll-how-many-digital-photos-are-stored-on-your-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-140376 Change Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:17:59 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13565#comment-140376 M1ke, I've been looking at the same solution, but got stuck at the question: How will I get it out of Flickr if I ever want to move or back it up elsewhere? As far as I know, you cannot mass-download the original files from Flickr and I don't really feel like doing it file-by-file with over 15,000 photos :P Did you find a solution for this? M1ke, I’ve been looking at the same solution, but got stuck at the question: How will I get it out of Flickr if I ever want to move or back it up elsewhere? As far as I know, you cannot mass-download the original files from Flickr and I don’t really feel like doing it file-by-file with over 15,000 photos :P Did you find a solution for this?

]]> By: M1ke http://cybernetnews.com/new-poll-how-many-digital-photos-are-stored-on-your-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-140375 M1ke Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:06:55 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13565#comment-140375 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-140367" rel="nofollow">Ben wrote:</a><blockquote>The real question should be: “how do you backup the 30,000+ photos stored on your computer! 8O</blockquote></div> Flickr? Since I got my account in January I've been trawling 6 years of archives (15-20 grand) titling and tagging photos, slowly building up my Flickr account. Should be done by the end of summer. Ben wrote:
The real question should be: “how do you backup the 30,000+ photos stored on your computer! 8O

Flickr? Since I got my account in January I’ve been trawling 6 years of archives (15-20 grand) titling and tagging photos, slowly building up my Flickr account. Should be done by the end of summer.

]]> By: Change http://cybernetnews.com/new-poll-how-many-digital-photos-are-stored-on-your-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-140374 Change Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:45:43 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13565#comment-140374 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-140372" rel="nofollow">dkong wrote:</a><blockquote><div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-140367" rel="nofollow">Ben wrote:</a><blockquote>The real question should be: “how do you backup the 30,000+ photos stored on your computer! 8O</blockquote></div>Get a pair of 8gb flash drives. Or get a cheap external HD. Really, that’s not that many photos size wise. I’d estimate that it’s somewhere around ~10-20gb.</blockquote></div> Did you read my comment? I got to 65GB with less photos than him. No way that's 10-20GB, unless it's just photos from a low MP phone camera :P External harddisk is the way to go imo. Especially if you shoot RAW, where the size of 1 photo can get up to 20MB. dkong wrote:
Ben wrote:
The real question should be: “how do you backup the 30,000+ photos stored on your computer! 8O

Get a pair of 8gb flash drives. Or get a cheap external HD.
Really, that’s not that many photos size wise. I’d estimate that it’s somewhere around ~10-20gb.

Did you read my comment? I got to 65GB with less photos than him. No way that’s 10-20GB, unless it’s just photos from a low MP phone camera :P External harddisk is the way to go imo. Especially if you shoot RAW, where the size of 1 photo can get up to 20MB.

]]> By: dkong http://cybernetnews.com/new-poll-how-many-digital-photos-are-stored-on-your-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-140372 dkong Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:34:21 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13565#comment-140372 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-140367" rel="nofollow">Ben wrote:</a><blockquote>The real question should be: “how do you backup the 30,000+ photos stored on your computer! 8O</blockquote></div>Get a pair of 8gb flash drives. Or get a cheap external HD. Really, that's not that many photos size wise. I'd estimate that it's somewhere around ~10-20gb. Ben wrote:
The real question should be: “how do you backup the 30,000+ photos stored on your computer! 8O

Get a pair of 8gb flash drives. Or get a cheap external HD.
Really, that’s not that many photos size wise. I’d estimate that it’s somewhere around ~10-20gb.

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