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Post by hikerchick395 on May 13, 2016 9:02:33 GMT -8
As my photos add up on my android phone (most are on a micro SD,) I'm looking for an alternative to just loading them onto my pc. What photo host should I be looking at?
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Post by rebeccad on May 14, 2016 8:55:16 GMT -8
Sounds like you do pretty much what we do with all our photos. I use Photobucket for hosting pictures I want to post here, but not for backup as a) it would take a week or more to upload them all, and b) I'd have to pay for that much storage. I upload from my phone to the computer, and need to sit around for a day or two deleting most of the pictures on my phone  Photobucket is easy to use, if you don't have so many you'd use all the free storage. I've had some trouble with them being slow, but others don't seem to share that problem. |
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Post by bp2go on Jun 5, 2016 14:36:51 GMT -8
A little late to add this, but there's your answer! Keep your photos on SD cards! They are multi GIG for small dollars. No real need to do anything else. SD cards are better than any free storage site. Keep the cards in a desk drawer, or for real security, at a friend's house or in a safety deposit box! |
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Post by Coolkat on Jun 6, 2016 5:29:12 GMT -8
It's been a while since I've used my photobucket account. (I could be wrong) but I thought that unless you paid for the pro version that Photobucket manipulates the files in some fashion when you upload them. I switched over to Flickr.
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Post by bp2go on Jun 6, 2016 5:41:35 GMT -8
Photobucket manipulates the files I don't know where you got that info, but no. What "manipulation" would you expect? It WILL reduce very large (dimensionally) images to keep them under 800px, but even that can be shut off in your prefs. Interesting that you selected Flickr. I used to also use it (but only so I could understand it to explain here!) but with their changes to improve it over time, I gave up on it because of difficulty of independent linking! Others like it, I just fell away. And FWIW, Photobucket is lots of free storage and is really only of use to me for a place to load images I need for forum use. Otherwise, I do what I suggested and keep my work on a separate drive, not in any clouds. |
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Post by Coolkat on Jun 6, 2016 6:18:23 GMT -8
I don't know where you got that info, but no. It's been so long since I was researching it so I no longer remember and like I said, I could be wrong. Flickr, was a learning a curve for me. The way you have to dump all the files into one place and then pick the photos from there to organize them into albums I'll admit is a bit awkward if you ask me. |
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Post by hikerchick395 on Jun 8, 2016 8:17:45 GMT -8
Well most of my photos are on an SD card in the phone. But of course if I remove it I remove my photos to view on the phone.
And, yes Rebecca, I need to thin some of them out. I did do that at first, but have been lax on that chore, as well as for my photos from the camera. I like to thin out the photos from the camera before loading them on to the computer. Ends up that I am storing THEM, right now, on SD cards.
I haven't used any photo sharing sites or the cloud for my photos, since the old WebShots. Right now, since we can't share from our computer, I only can copy and paste photos that I post on facebook.
I was thinking of loading my photos to my lap top, which I rarely use, then to a portable hard drive that I have for the lap top...
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Post by bp2go on Jun 8, 2016 8:41:22 GMT -8
if I remove it I remove my photos to view on the phone. I'm confused by this. If I am reading things correctly, you are really all set to remove the SD card, copy it tou your desktop9laptop, whatever suits you, then once duplicated, put it back into the phone for viewing at your whim. You're linking from Facebook? Fine. That seems to be hard for some, but there is an instruction that was posted here a year ago, if you see anything that needs changing, let me know. That unused laptop is a dandy storage disk*. All you really want is a way to have a duplicate set of important pictures. Clouds and remote storage are overkill for you. *Bonus Trivia: A disk with a K is like the hard drive on your computer. A disc with a C is a removable storage device. Fun, huh? |
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Post by hikerchick395 on Jun 11, 2016 8:42:51 GMT -8
Yeah...I like the ability to view the photos on my SD card on the phone. Yet it is a chore to find anything...I have so many photos...but I do like being able to, if I want. (The phone is still a newish toy to me...almost 18 months)
The reason I'm thinking of copying to my lap top is because my desk top is getting full of photos. And I'm worried about dropping my phone off of a cliff or something and losing everything. I've dropped the phone in a couple of precarious places already. Almost into the creek near Sonora Pass. Dangerously close to the edge at the Grand Canyon.
Facebook does limit me to only linking photos that I might post there. I can't just go dig up a photo from the computer to post here. For example, I posted the photo that was my desk top to here, by first posting it, only to myself, on Facebook, to get a link.
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Post by rebeccad on Jun 11, 2016 9:12:12 GMT -8
I like to thin out the photos from the camera before loading them on to the computer. I do the opposite--I download them to my computer and edit where I can actually SEE the pictures. But that means they never get deleted from the phone. Facebook does limit me to only linking photos that I might post there. I can't just go dig up a photo from the computer to post here. It's the forum software that limits that--it doesn't come with storage, so all photos must be links. Like Steve, I use Photobucket for pictures I'm going to post, but the free storage wouldn't begin to hold all the photos I've taken (and saved) since going digital. Though I'm sure I could delete some more. |
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Post by bp2go on Jun 11, 2016 9:20:04 GMT -8
Just a wild idea, but if you wanted to take the time, get a nice lmulti-gig card and dare to organize a set of folders with location names, dates of trips, whatever works for you. Add selected photos to that card and keep it in the little plastic case the cards usually are in when you buy them. Then in the high-tech version of pulling out your wallet and asking "Hey, wanna see my vacation?", you simply whip out that little card while you ask, and the other person gets a glazed look as you snap it into your Android and Voila! There are your cataloged images.
As for your knack for dropping the phone: look into an OtterBox. Check Amazon. They are bombproof, come in several levels of protection, many wonderful colors, which I suppose won't matter at all. But still, not too expensive and great for unintended drops.
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Post by rebeccad on Jun 11, 2016 13:04:10 GMT -8
As for your knack for dropping the phone: look into an OtterBox. Check Amazon. They are bombproof, come in several levels of protection, many wonderful colors, which I suppose won't matter at all. But still, not too expensive and great for unintended drops. All except the one off the edge at the Grand Canyon! But that's more an issue of retrievability |
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Post by hikerchick395 on Jun 11, 2016 13:35:52 GMT -8
I have an OtterBox and a better bombproof screen cover than what it came with. I'm talking about just losing my phone...a possibility because I can't resist things like climbing the railing at the top of Yosemite Falls (a few weeks ago) and holding the phone over the abyss. At least the camera has a wrist strap!
Rebecca...I do view my photos from the camera on the computer and delete them from the card before loading them into a folder. And, of course, you can connect the phone via USB port and view your photos to delete them. Now if I could just find the time...
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Post by bp2go on Jun 11, 2016 14:54:32 GMT -8
climbing the railing at the top of Yosemite Falls Do you start by asking somebody to "hold my beer"? Check in the store there to see if they have selfie-sticks in stock yet? How come you never mention doing this dangerous adventurous stuff in any "trip reports"? And in your case, I hope it never really is a trip report! ...And I mean that with all respect for your thrill-seeker style! |
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Post by hikerchick395 on Jun 11, 2016 17:09:36 GMT -8
So far, all of my "trips" have been on flat ground.
Just looking through those Yosemite pics in the past couple hours...have been to Yosemite twice since.
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