https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 20 May 2026 22:58:30 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665893 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:24:52 +0000 TemperanceBrennan 2665893@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My phone photos automatically go to Google Photos. Every once in a while (every two months) I copy them to my external hard drive. </p> <p>Photos that I take on my camera are stored on my Computer hard drive, external hardrive, and then uploaded to SmugMug. </p> <p>I also have a instagram account for my daughter that is private and only has family members (less than 10) that follow it. I do that for automatic Chatbooks and as another backup option. </p> <p>Previously, my computer hard drive failed and I lost about 50% of all my digital pictures from 2000-2014 - even after an expensive data recovery process - so I am especially diligent about photo backups. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665875 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:09:43 +0000 Littlebit7 2665875@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NorthStar: haha. sounds like my husband with his PCs. Good luck! Typically most online or cloud based systems organize by date or when the photo was taken. But you can go in a manually change things. But I find that the time sorting works pretty well. Google photos actually has a pretty amazing search function. its like magic! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665871 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:05:22 +0000 NorthStar 2665871@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Littlebit7: we do have an external, so I do backups, but need to get better used to how macs work. lol. I'm such a PC person, which I know isn't the norm for photography </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665868 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:03:36 +0000 Littlebit7 2665868@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NorthStar: you should be able to create a backup of your PSE catalog by adding a simple external hard drive. I'm not super familiar with PSE, but I think there are options under your menu for saving your catalog on an external. You should have to do anything sorting wise, it will just basically run a mirror image of your working catalog in PSE, and add new stuff every time you back up.<br /> Id start with that. The investment is minimal (external drives are SUPER cheap). Then whenever you get internet, you can easily do google photos. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665865 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:00:32 +0000 NorthStar 2665865@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Littlebit7: That is my issue too. I have PS Elements and organize all my camera (and most iphotos) through there. I have a photo for every month so that I can easily find what I need. So, I have no clue how that correlates to what is backed up online. Would I have to reorganize everything there? </p> <p>We don't have internet at our house, so I can't easily just back up photos online. But, we are looking at options, so once we have it, this is my priority as I don't want to lose photos either! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665859 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:57:30 +0000 Littlebit7 2665859@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do a lot of backups across a lot of programs. I've lost my photos once before back in 2008, and I vowed never again.<br /> So:<br /> I used to use Aperture and have that library backed up on my mac and an External drive along with my time capsule<br /> Now I use lightroom, and back that up to an external drive.<br /> My phone photos are backed up to iCloud and amazon.<br /> I know its a tad bit of overkill, but photography is my hobby. I'd hate myself for a very very long time if I lost my photos. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665824 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:15:07 +0000 cat620 2665824@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My iPhone and my MacBook both backup to the Cloud </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665820 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:08:19 +0000 lawbee11 2665820@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do Amazon Prime photos as well. Super easy and included with the Prime membership! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665818 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:07:02 +0000 sunny 2665818@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My iPhone backs up to iCloud. I also copy over photos to my computer and my computer backs up all files (photos + docs) to Crashplan. I highly recommend CrashPlan! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665812 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:01:09 +0000 Mamaof2 2665812@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HappyBaker: thanks!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665800 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:55:11 +0000 mediagirl 2665800@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ajsmommy: haha I'm glad you're happy with it. Tip: my husband and I share a prime account - I'm just a secondary user. We both log into his account on our Amazon photos apps and both of our phones upload to his Prime account. Now we can see what pictures each of us have taken! I'm the one who usually prints pictures so it's a huge help for me.</p> <p>@HappyBaker: I go through regularly and delete "bad" videos. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665788 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:48:30 +0000 Ajsmommy 2665788@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: omg I think you may have just changed my life!! </p> <p>@HappyBaker: I ran out of space last week and it's the WORST.. I keep everything on my phone and don't want to delete!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665786 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:47:08 +0000 Smurfette 2665786@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>External hard drive and then drop box. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665781 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:43:42 +0000 NorthStar 2665781@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How do you guys organize them once you have them uploaded (or do you)? that is my biggest headache. I have all of our photos on our computer and eventually need to move them to 'the cloud'. but, can you even organize them? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665765 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:26:17 +0000 snowjewelz 2665765@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Google photos - I believe they store at a lower resolution but I'm okay with that. I stopped backing up to hard drive b/c I don't even turn on my computer! I'm also going to do a year book next year to have "hard copies" of memorable photos. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665746 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:01:39 +0000 josina 2665746@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My phone photos automatically upload to both Shutterfly (with the app) and to google photos - I believe that's also an app but came with my Motorola phone.<br /> I do have an external drive that I probably yearly will move files over to, but I usually just do this to get old files off my Mac and clear up space.<br /> I'm really awful about hooking my phone up to my computer and moving things over. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665745 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:59:47 +0000 HappyBaker 2665745@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mamaof2: I just did it and it was SO easy! You download the Amazon Prime Photos app, log in, and it just starts scraping your phone for photos. The only issue I have is it only gives you 5gb for videos / other files so all my videos couldn't get backed up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665738 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:48:08 +0000 Mamaof2 2665738@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: your phone pictures? Is there a setting on your phone to do this? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665737 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:45:56 +0000 hellobeeboston 2665737@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lately I just started doing GOOGLE PHOTOS (photos.google.com)</p> <p>it's the greatest, and free, and very easy.</p> <p>I also back up to an external harddrive. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665718 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:20:44 +0000 bookwormmama 2665718@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I use Flickr...I have the app on my phone and I try to automatically upload them every week, but sometimes it's just when I remember. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665716 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:18:54 +0000 FaithFertility 2665716@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>mine go to dropbox </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665713 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:17:17 +0000 HappyBaker 2665713@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: Awesome thank you! That solves my biggest issue of my phone pics!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665711 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:16:08 +0000 mediagirl 2665711@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HappyBaker: everything from our phones gets uploaded automatically. We pay for Amazon Prime, which covers the unlimited cloud storage for auto-uploads. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665710 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:15:18 +0000 HappyBaker 2665710@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: Do you pay for it, and is it on your phone or your computer (or both I guess!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665707 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:14:21 +0000 mediagirl 2665707@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Everything gets uploaded to Amazon automatically. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-back-up-photos-files#post-2665705 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:12:07 +0000 HappyBaker 2665705@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am awful at keeping up to date with the latest OS's / Software Updates for both my Mac and my iPhone, primarily because I don't regularly back up my files or photos so it always takes me a while to get everything backed up / ready for a new update in case it blows up.</p> <p>What's your process for keeping a back up of photos and files from your phone or computer? Cloud? External hard drive? Do you do it daily / weekly / monthly? Talk me through this please!</p> <p>Edited to add - do you then delete the photos from your phone? I'm always scared to do this but running out of space! Ha. I clearly have tech trust issues. </p>