The easy way to Look After Your Digital Photos
November 4th, 2011
A poll conducted in UK in October 2010 exposed that of all the possessions people worry most about losing, it is digital photos. People are far more afraid of losing photographs than even our purses.
Digital photos are essential. They represent who we were and where we have been. We will be able to replace lost keys and phones but nothing can take the place of lost images. Once they’re lost, they are lost forever—except in our imaginations which, sadly, we can never share with anyone.
Pictures of you when you were married, that picture of your spouse as she was delivering your baby, those first shots of your newly born kid, birthday party photographs or graduation pictures—these are visual records of our emotional moments and significant landmarks. We might give anything simply to keep them.
The advent of digital photography has brought on a surge of picture-taking and digital photography has made picture-taking simple and inexpensive. Sadly, losing photos with this technology is almost as simple as taking them.
Hard drive failure, accidentally dropping your digicam, getting your cell phone wet, accidental deletion and memory card-related mess ups are all causes for losing digital photographs. It is important, then, to have a good backup system to stop loss of all your pictures, to have photo data recovery software in the event of their loss and to have a data recovery company to go to in case recovery of lost photographs is simply beyond you.
Professional photographers, whose livelihood depends on the integrity of their customers ‘ pictures, offer the following advice in stopping data loss:
– Copy your photographs to an external hard drive and label by year and event.
– Enroll with an online backup service provider so that when something happens to your external disc drive (or your house), you still have an off-site backup.
– Back-up your stills onto 2 DVD-R’s. In case one DVD-R gets corrupted, the other can be deployed. You may also decide to store these DVD’s off-site or outside of your house.
If you lose your footage from your mobile camera smart phone or camera, you can recover them using any of the above backups—external hard drive, online backup and DVD-R’s.
Jason Sloan runs a data recovery business called Kingdom Data Recovery Edinburgh who service all the UK. He has got many articles on his site which refer to issues with storage and helpful information about stopping data loss.