Comments on: Hi. My Name’s Kathy And I’m A Hoarder.

By: Pua

Pua — Sun, 23 May 2010 22:58:39 +0000

I realize this is old, I’m still making my way to May 2010, but I will have it done before bed tonight so to save precious reading time I’m not going to read through all the comments to see if someone suggested this already. But just in case, have you considered buying an external hard drive? You can buy them at pretty much any store or order them online for cheap. And they are easy to use. My husband is an IT guy so all our stuff is backed up every couple of months, and if something happens to one of the computers before it’s backed up I cry.

By: Jenners

Jenners — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:52:20 +0000

We have tons of photos too. We buy a removable hard drive, back up the photos and keep them in a fireproof, waterproof safe. You really shouldn’t mess with this stuff … get them backed up NOW. There are also places where you can store them online safely. There may be money involved but 8 years worth of photos are worth it.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:09:06 +0000

Oh, I’m with ya. Except I don’t back anything up. I just have all the photos saved with the generic names on my computer in monthly dated folders. I haven’t printed any pictures since 2000. And I have nothing backed up. It’s on my to do list, but it’s SOOOO far down there I can’t even see it.

By: Sissy

Sissy — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:55:28 +0000

I have 3yrs worth (3G) of pics and my disc drive doesn’t work. Freak out! So I uploaded every single one to Snapfish. At least they are there if, read:WHEN, my laptop goes to the big junk pile in the sky.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:16:19 +0000

Oh she’s adorable! And don’t waste time on CDs, but an external hard drive!

By: Tesa

Tesa — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:07:39 +0000

We have tons of photos on our computer too. I just backed them up using Google Picasa. It was really easy. They are now on DVDs and Picasa will keep track of when the last back up was so I’m not spending all my time backing up the same thing.

Good luck it is dauting, that’s for sure!

By: Funkidivagirl

Funkidivagirl — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:33:27 +0000

I am paranoid about losing everything on my computer…including my photos. I do have an external drive and remember to back it up every week or so, but I need to put all my photos on a dvd as well. What I really want to do is use a service to back up my computer…that is a goal this year.

By: MamaB

MamaB — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:36:48 +0000

I use Picassa. I love it because I can easily and quickly just scroll through all my pictures (it’s set up like a contact sheet). And like everything Google does, it’s free, user friendly and has lots of features. you can tag, and star and easily upload to blogs (blogger of course sorry!), store sites (the plus here is it will keep your organization, it will name your Walgreen’s or CVS folders the same as on your computer) or web pages. It also has simply editing tools as well. Than I back everything up to an external drive and hubby than does something else fancy and tech like to it and gets them on a DVD (or 2 we may be up to 2 or 3).

We usually back up once a year but it’s been a little longer, need to get on that!

By: Pooba

Pooba — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:19:05 +0000

I totally hear ya on the picture hoarding! I finally joined a SmugMug.com to back up all my pictures. I love it!

By: WebSavvyMom

WebSavvyMom — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:13:01 +0000

–>I have probably close to 30,000 photos taken in the last decade. Our home computer houses them all by folder name/month year and the system is “mirrored” so if something happens to one hard drive it’s backed up on the same. Having wrote all that, I am still convinced I’m going to lose them all. I suggest a $80 external hard drive that you can copy everything over to once a month so you know you really have everything safe.

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