Appleinfo: Re: [apple-iphone] Re: photos

I did acknowledge what the OP wanted and offered a process.

I have found that I do not always know what question to ask to get the solution I want and have found the same to be true of others. I also offered another option that could be used IN ADDITION to the OP's request.

When you broadly dismiss an idea because of some inferred loss of rights, without looking at the TOS for a specific site, you do a dis-service to fellow readers.

I once had a hard drive die. That did not stop me from using other hard drives. That a storage service that you used shut down unexpectedly and with terrible results for you should not mean that no one should trust another storage service. I did not recommend that the OP only use the online storage solution, but instead I suggested that it could be used IN ADDITION to the thumb drive.

Anyone who copies whatever files to another media, such as a thumb drive or to an online storage service and then deletes the original files does not have a backup. One copy of a file is not a backup. A second copy of the file is backup. A third copy of the file stored off site, such as on an online storage service provides much greater file storage.

I offered a suggestion on how the OP could accomplish what was requested and offered 2 other storage solutions for the OP to consider.

You gave a one off reason to avoid storage services but offered no suggestion on what the OP should do.

---In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com, <whodo678@...> wrote :

The OP wants to store them on a device they control, not on someone else's server, and to each their own decision.

Besides that many if these storage services have you give up the rights to the images, there is one other possible problem.

Years ago, there was a storage service based in, I believe, southeast Canada, that I had used as a primary place to store digital images. I don't remember the name. But one night, they folded their tent and stole off into the night. No warning, no indication, they just vanished.

One one list I was on, a member happened to live by their location, and so they went by a day or two later. They looked in the windows and saw evidence of a hasty removal of the servers and other expensive hardware and the rest in shambles. There was a note on the entrance saying good bye.

They fled in the middle of the night to avoid creditors, taking the servers and photos with them, never to be seen again. The images for hundreds of thousands of user were gone in the blink of an eye.

Brent

Sent from my iPhone, please excuse any brevity.

On May 23, 2019, at 21:44, majorjake@... [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

If you have a Mac, you can import the photos from the iPhone to the Mac using the Photos app. Once in the Mac I believe you can use File, Export Photos from the Photos app to copy them where you want them such as to a Thumb Drive.

However you get the files on the Thumb Drive, do you plan to delete them from the iPhone and the Mac (or PC)? If so the Thumb Drive will be the only place with the photos. These portable drives are easy to lose and are not intended for long term storage without a backup..

However you store your photos I suggest you consider Google Photos which will store an unlimited number of photos up to 16 MP for free. Pictures greater than 16 MP will be downsized. You can download a Google Photos app onto your iPhone and after setting it up, it will automatically copy your photos to Google Photos.

Amazon Photos allows unlimited photo storage for free for Amazon Prime members. I do not believe there are MP limitations. There is an Amazon Photos app that works like the Google Photos app.

I use both for the security of having 2 automatic backups of all the photos on my iPhone.

---In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com, <sonjamarder@...> wrote :

I want to take all my photos off my iPhone and put them on like a photo stick...I have over 8,000...any recommendations for something easy? Many thanks in advance..

sonja