1. Have the photos digitized and put on a thumbnail drive, CD or DVD. But many new computers today don’t have the CD/DVD drive.
2. Cloud based solutions- It can be all too easy to take hundreds of photos and let them sit on a phone, a camera, or a computer, but devices like those can crash, go missing, or be destroyed in a fire. That’s why it’s smart to build in redundancies, storing your pictures in more than one place, including a cloud service.
For most people, using cloud storage in tandem with a hard drive is generally enough to safeguard the data. Finding a reasonably priced external drive is not that difficult these days. But shopping for a cloud storage service that’s better than a free one, that you might get with your phone can be awfully confusing.
When you use cloud storage, your files live on a remote drive owned by a host or vendor. You can then access those files via an app or website for viewing, editing, and downloading.
So how do you choose the right service? Consider three factors: the price you’re willing to pay, the amount of storage you need, and the items you wish to store. (Some options are video, music, and documents, too.)