Press Ctrl + ESC at the same time then let go and type snip the program will appear in the list you can search for any program that way if you know any bit of the name.
I've seen that one, I am actually perfectly happy with SpiderOakOne, I understand the technology and am confident in the way it works. the sync process seems to be a lot more sane than Microsoft's OneDrive and a lot more reliable.
What are your views on this, Jim? http://www.pcworld.com/article/2933...ewed-your-data-good-for-a-thousand-years.html I am researching optical disks and portable DVD+ media, as recommended by Ken, the "Angry Photographer". I don't trust online backups and server failure.
I had a quick look Mike, the only issue would be physical storage and the ability to play back the media, you would need at least two sets of disks onsite and offsite, and it would quickly get expensive. The biggest issue would be finding hardware to play it back on twenty years from now as CD and DVD formats will probably have long gone the way of VHS and the dinosaur. The only players still existing would be expensive and designed specifically for archival use and produced in small volumes. As they say oxidation would still be a problem, the old fashioned disks that were sent into space on voyager were gold plated in order to remain inert but of course any aliens would have to invent the analogue record player or equivalent in order to play it back, I wonder what they would make of a largely non digital space probe I do like the idea of archival storage media but it needs to be a format that will be supported for a long time. What is really interesting is this 5D nano-glass good for millions of years http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/fileadmi..._Ultrafast_Laser_Nanostructuring_in_Glass.pdf with the layman's explanation here https://www.rt.com/news/5d-nanostructured-glass-optical-memory-941/
I was thinking about you when I was researching this last night, Jim, because I know your data is far greater in size than mine but as mine is much smaller, I will probably go for the DVD's. I have about 10 external hard drives but don't trust their longevity at all and I also feel uncomfortable about leaving my data in some server somewhere. I will burn the disks and keep a set in another location, maybe even in two other places. That new technology looks very interesting but I am afraid the cost would be too expensive for me. I am 60 this year and I have thousands of slides from 22 years working overseas that I have to scan and archive, so my kids will be able to see what their dad did when they get older. I think the DVD route will be a good idea for me.
I have always kept my pictures in a folder of the day, so today would be "Pictures/2016_02_25". I do have a few folders from previous days and they are "Pictures/friends and family", that sort of thing. The slides are a daunting task. I have 30,000 of them and they are in the circular trays that used to sit in the slide projector.
No Keith, it is 700 GB of landscape, architecture, technical, family and wedding photography..........as well you know
I have two Flickr accounts, three actually if you count the one I maintain for Ana, the image below is from the magic view where Flickr analyses the content of your work and breaks it down into categories. The account this is from has well over 20,000 images and they have broken down as shown in the clip below. My other account has far fewer and is where I post my better work the pics below are not edited in any fashion whereas on my main account everything is post processed to some extent.
A very interesting thread I really must prioritise some time to get some serious research done. In recent years I've been unfortunate to lose access to a couple of early external drives. My mum and dad had a whole cabinet filled with photo albums. Took me the best part of 2 years to scan them and put onto an external drive.
Sadly Mike, not all. I did start backing up many onto another drive which I still have and is still working fine. Just recently I backed that up on another external drive. To be honest I lost many of the very early photo's of my grandparents and my very early years as a baby. What hurts me most is that I lost virtually all the photo's of my brother. Nothing much I can do about it. I tried everything at the time to recover the photo's but all the contacts told me the Toshiba drive was just not recoverable. I could kick myself, but even now I don't feel 100% secure.
