Day 34: Photos
Hello out there! We had a few unintended days off here. DH got sick, and you all know how DH's get when they have a sniffle. And I've been feeling a bit cranky too, and I knew that if I did the photo day, I would have to sort my scraps. I have been dreading that day, the whole challenge. I have been working on my swaps, so I haven't been a complete disaster during the break. And good news, my organization system is working! I cleaned up after my swaps and it only took about 10 minutes because, at this point, almost everything has a home.
So photos...I actually have had this done. My photo backlog is mostly on the computer. My thing is I have to start actually printing things! But I do have some stuff from pre-digital, and I have printed some things.
2 boxes worth of photos, one is from my trans-Atlantic cruise, the other is everything else.
I also have boxes for: CD backups, Negatives, Extra photos (duplicates, or things not used in my books) and the 4th box is micro-cassette tapes. The tapes are from the Disney conventions I have attended, and I recorded the interesting guest speakers. Plus, I have ride recordings. I need to find someway to digitize them, though.
Now, the one thing I need to do photo wise, and I'm going to do it as soon as I am done posting.
BACK UP YOUR PHOTOS!!!!.
I have CD/DVD backups, but those aren't up to date, and I have an external hard drive back up. However, since getting the new laptop, I haven't backed up recent photos to the HD. We also have our old desk top (which is where the external is normally plugged into) which at this point acts as a third backup. So I need to transfer my newest photos to the HD, and then transfer them to the desktop.
I have not yet had a photo emergency, but for a year I thought I did. In 2001, I went on a family trip to WDW with my Mom's extended family. We took the trip because my aunt had terminal cancer, and wanted her kids to have a real vacation for once. We lost her the next year. At that point in time, I had a Mavica camera which meant the pics were on floppy disk. I had copied the photos to the computer, and then burned them to CD, and deleted the floppy disks. Well, I went looking for something from that trip, AND COULD NOT FIND THE FOLDER! So then I went looking for the CD, AND I COULD NOT FIND IT! I cried, and cried. My parents had taken some pictures from that trip, but I had taken the majority of them. I got the ones from my parents, but I mourned for the lost photos. When we moved, I found the CD
So if you do nothing else in this challenge, back up your pictures. I got lucky, but I know others have not been so.