Photos. How Do you save them FOREVER?

[Industrial Toys]

I would like to know if you can recover the datata on a USB stick on the older XP machine. Funny, how there is just one recent picture. Not like the stick is totally unresponsive.

 

[Chris616]

I'm not an expert in this, but until someone else comes along who is...

There are some other steps, but the first thing that might tell us something is to check the properties for the flash drive. You can see in this example that the drive appears to be empty, but apparently something is using up 298 MB of room. I've marked the files on the flash drive as "hidden", which is something that a virus might do. Is the amount of space shown as being used on your drive consistent with just one photo, or many?

Chris

 

[/pine]

I would like to know if you can recover the datata on a USB stick on the older XP machine. Funny, how there is just one recent picture. Not like the stick is totally unresponsive.

Can you see the other image files on a different device than the XP machine?

 

[Chris616]

I'm going offline now, but I've been doing some research on this. There is a lot of software out there available for download to recover deleted files. I'd hesitate to install most of them, thinking that they're conduits for something that you don't want on your computer(s). This is a good web page from a site that I often use that discusses how files are not actually deleted on external flash drives. I've researched the file deletion program mentioned there, Recuva. Everything that I've read says that it is legit software, without spyware, trojans, etc. It's a stripped down version of more complete software that the developer would like you to buy. If I had some files that I had to recover I'd install that. But I'd be really sure that I was downloading only from the developer's website, not some other download site that may or may not be serving up the real goods.

Richard brought up an interesting point. I disregarded that part of your last comment, since it didn't seem to make sense to me. You can plug the USB drive into any machine, so why the comment about recovering "...on the older XP machine"? Am I misunderstanding what you're doing?

Chris

Warning: Anyone Can Recover Deleted Files From Your USB Drives and External SSDs

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Just discovered my 4 TB backup usb drive no longer works. I back up multiple drives. I have taken some on dvd to another physical location.

I’ve kept a lot of pics on original sd cards. Haven’t checked if they still work.

I have 2 nas devices, 2 computers, and 2 usb drives I keep them on.

 

[MossRoad]

I have two external hard drives that I use to back up to fairly often. I keep one on the desk and one in the safe, but not plugged in when not in use. Every so often, I'll burn two DVDs of the photos. I keep one set at home and another at the bank. When I'm dead, my kids can go through them if they wish. I rarely go through them.

As someone mentioned, photos used to be rare, and special. Now, they are prolific, and even considered clutter after a while.

When out first kid was in 4H photo projects, we allowed her to take 10 rolls of film. That was $3-4 dollars per roll. Plus $5-6 for developing and it was soon a $100 project. Then reprints, enlargements, mounting, etc, and then triple it because she was in 3 different categories, and we were looking at $300+ in costs!

Along comes 2nd kid and digital photography. She could take 500 pictures for the cost of a few batteries. Proof them all on screen. Print out the best ones for $.25 each. Mounting, etc... and they were only $20 projects.

 

[radios1]

the problem is, your family will die out at some point in time, and photos of that family will have no use anymore, it's part of the life cycle.. if it was possible, having photos that last forever will be useless..

 

[Industrial Toys]

Or you could sit in your TESLA out in space with your photo Albums beside you.

Will have to read responses and deal with it later,

 

[MossRoad]

My wife and I do a lot of small junk and antique store browsing. I collect small metal bottle openers, and she collects glass toothpick holders. We see thousands and thousands of old family photographs in those places. I guess people can't bear to throw them out, so they give them to the junk stores, or they're bought up in lot sales. I think if I found them, I'd give them a decent viking funeral in the burn barrel VS just throwing them away.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

And I’m sitting here now scanning old slides from 1981 that nobody but me will see.

I would love to have a photo do my great grandparents. I hope someone in my family will want a copy. I wasn’t interested in family history till I got older.