Appleinfo: Re: backing up [apple-iphone] Notes and photos

dimanche 26 mai 2019

Re: backing up [apple-iphone] Notes and photos

The suggestions on how to adequately back up data are invaluable. (My approach is somewhat like Otto's…)

One question that is worth considering is this: IS IT REALLY NECESSARY TO PRESERVE EVERY BIT OF THE BILLIONS OF BYTES OF DATA THAT TECHNOLOGY HAS MADE IT POSSIBLE TO ACCUMULATE?

I have accumulated so much data that I will never look at it all in my lifetime, and winnowing out what I want to keep is more of a challenge than how to preserve it.

Bim B

On May 25, 2019, at 1:40 PM, Patrica Taylor pat412@mac.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I use Apple's iCloud and this article shows you how to do that with illustrations:

https://www.imore.com/how-sync-notes-iphone-and-ipad#icloud

Here's more info about iCloud:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207428

Pat

Sent from my iPad Pro2

On May 25, 2019, at 7:18 PM, Murray Woods rmwoods@rogers.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Hi all:

I have read many of these posts, but what this 82-year old geezer really needs is a simple, step by step explanation of how I can save (back up, I guess) my Notes (some are very important) and my photos, and my contacts. My main worry are the Notes. My wife had her purse stolen recently with her iPhone in it, and she is feeling the pain.
Is there a simple way of doing this, without having to visit the iPhone store (and I may have to try that)?
Thanks for any and all suggestions.

On May 25, 2019, at 07:29, Otto Nikolaus otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Backups, backups, backups!

Whatever e lse you do, keep at least 2 backups on devices (NAS, external drive, other computer) you own and can access whenever you need them.

Otto

On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 22:26, Brent whodo678@yahoo.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> 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 sto le 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 o f user were gone in the blink of an eye.