The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

dhubthaigh · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:24 am Post subject: PHOTO ADVICE

I have lots of images in 'My Pictures' now and it has become quite slow to work with. I am in the process of putting all these images onto disc.

However having done this can I delete the images from 'My Pictures' or in doing this will it mean that they wont 'show' on the forum?

If thats the case there will need to be a lot of sorting out to be done.

Mark

David McNay · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:45 am Post subject:

If you've uploaded them to photobucket they are now "stored" online as well as on your PC. Save them to a disc, and then you can delete them from your PC.

Saving and deleting them will not remove them from the forum. The only way that would happen is if you deleted them from your photobucket account.

Hope this helps.

David

dhubthaigh · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:09 pm Post subject:

David,

Thanks, it does help - and is a relief!

Mark

spoons · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:51 pm Post subject:

When you say disk, I presume you mean CD or DVD? Both CD and DVD have an unpleasantly high failure rate, especially if kept more than one year. If this is the only copy you have of your photos, that may mean that the only ones left if the worst happens is the low res ones on photobucket. (I have 3 or 4 practically unreadable CDs with loads of lost files). If you have plenty of space left on your disk, you can move some of the photos out of 'my pictures' into a separate folder on the C drive. If you keep it to around 200 photos per folder, then open new folders as necessary, then performance should be fine. Alternatively - if you are low on disk space as well, £70 should buy you a 250GB external hard drive that just plugs into the USB port - that should hold about 125,000 photos at 2MB resolution. Again, create sub folders and never put more than about 200 files in any one folder.

dhubthaigh · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:58 pm Post subject:

DerekR · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:02 pm Post subject:

I would also encourage anyone with a large number of photographs to e-mail them to themselves at Google Mail.
Google Mail provides you with plenty of space - as I speak I have posted all my pictures to myself and have only used 8% of my allowance.

If anyone fancies an account there then PM me. (it costs nowt)
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spoons · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:26 pm Post subject:

DerekR · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:45 pm Post subject:

dhubthaigh · Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:51 pm Post subject:

Oh dear!

spoons · Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:11 pm Post subject:

I hope they turn up or can be recovered. Meanwhile here is what I do for each of my photos.

Original hi res photos stored on an external hard drive (500 GB - about £60 from PC suppliers). Copy of hi res photos stored on second external hard drive (1TB - that's 1,000 GB - about £85). Reduced (800 X 600) posted on photobucket, copy on my laptop, copy on my second (1TB) external hard drive and further copy on DVD that I gave to David McNay.

I have worked with computers since before PCs were a glint in their maker's eye and believe me I would not buy the external drives and put the effort into making the copies if experience had not taught me that it was necessary.

For all user accounts and passwords (to photobucket, this forum, GWF and many other online sites) they are all written down in a little blue book for that time in the future when I need them. Online banking etc is not in this book of course so don't bother sending a burglar around as it has no monetary value Laughing

\Paul

anne park · Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:54 am Post subject: Photos on Photobucket

I had lots of photos on the site and they disappeared so please check as I'd not done anything lately with photos they said my account had not been looked at for 90 days so pulled them until I reset my password.
Word to the wise.
Anne