2019-05-26 at 10:26 AM UTC
How do you save these for the next generations without trusting google or yahoo or whoever.
2019-05-26 at 1:30 PM UTC
Grimace
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I create a backup on a DVD and also a USB flash drive. That backup is also zipped and encrypted and uploaded to Google Drive. I refresh it about every 3 months.
2019-05-26 at 1:32 PM UTC
I don't often agree with Technologist, but yeah, print em out on photo paper.
2019-05-26 at 1:40 PM UTC
A picture is just an excecuteable file, code telling the machine which pixels go where in what order. You can open a picture in notepad and see the hexadecimal values.
Since all forms of hard disk and SSD are vulnerable to bit flipping, cosmic rays and microwave radiation (unless it's stored deep underground) the best way would be to convert all pictures to text that can be converted back to a jpg and then etching that code onto some kind of stone or metal that will last thousands of millions of years and storing it somewhere on earth where nothing can ever destroy it.
2019-05-26 at 1:42 PM UTC
Originally posted by Grimace
Funny. I have a photobook, like, meant for printed photos, that was given to us as a wedding present. It's all fancy and has fancy lettering and whatnot. Not one single photo has entered it. It's a shame, really. I'd like photos to be there, but with cloud services and whatnot, it makes it so much easier/faster to work with them.
That said, I really want a photo book. Like, old school shots displayed in a physical book.
You have the power to make it happen, brother.
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