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John flightpath
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Photo storage

Post by John flightpath » Fri Sep 27, 2019 7:58 pm

Hello, does anyone use Dropbox for storage of their images. It was suggested to me today, but wondered was it any good.

Many thanks.
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Re: Photo storage

Post by POL » Fri Sep 27, 2019 8:23 pm

As a storage platform it's fine.

Before you buy any of their paid plans, do you have Amazon prime? If so they offer free photo storage - including RAW files - and it's entirely unlimited, as part of your Prime subscription. (I've got about 3TB backed up)

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Re: Photo storage

Post by John flightpath » Sat Sep 28, 2019 5:49 am

Useful information thank you. Thats a lot of storage too. I don't have prime, but I was considering it as an alternative TV plan and didn't realise you get that little nugget with it.

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Re: Photo storage

Post by CookipediaChef » Sat Sep 28, 2019 8:09 am

EGVP wrote:
Fri Sep 27, 2019 8:23 pm
.. do you have Amazon prime? If so they offer free photo storage - including RAW files - and it's entirely unlimited, as part of your Prime subscription. (I've got about 3TB backed up)
I never knew, and I thought I knew everything. :P

Thanks for that, great tip!
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Re: Photo storage

Post by Lewis MacRae » Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:36 am

I use the Prime Storage as a secondary backup to my RAW files. My primary long term storage is a hard drive and then I have a 'working drive' which is just a buss powered 1 TB hard drive where my last couple of months worth of photos are stored.

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Re: Photo storage

Post by Bilvo » Fri Oct 11, 2019 3:16 pm

CookipediaChef wrote:
Sat Sep 28, 2019 8:09 am
EGVP wrote:
Fri Sep 27, 2019 8:23 pm
.. do you have Amazon prime? If so they offer free photo storage - including RAW files - and it's entirely unlimited, as part of your Prime subscription. (I've got about 3TB backed up)
I never knew, and I thought I knew everything. :P

Thanks for that, great tip!
EGVP wrote:
Fri Sep 27, 2019 8:23 pm
.. do you have Amazon prime? If so they offer free photo storage - including RAW files - and it's entirely unlimited, as part of your Prime subscription. (I've got about 3TB backed up)
It might be included as "a part of your Prime subscription" but that simply means that you are paying for it :thumb:
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Re: Photo storage

Post by C24 » Sat Oct 12, 2019 8:15 am

EGVP. Thanks for the tip.

I do tend to agree that it is a little like "unlimited free calls", it depends upon how you do your accounting.
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Re: Photo storage

Post by davem » Wed Oct 16, 2019 1:24 pm

EGVP wrote:
Fri Sep 27, 2019 8:23 pm
As a storage platform it's fine.
Before you buy any of their paid plans, do you have Amazon prime? If so they offer free photo storage - including RAW files - and it's entirely unlimited, as part of your Prime subscription. (I've got about 3TB backed up)
Thanks very much Chris, didn't realise that was one of the perks and as I use it only as a way of getting next day delivery on stuff, I'm perfectly happy to now consider it as FREE storage :P ;)

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Re: Photo storage

Post by ChrisCwmbran » Wed Oct 16, 2019 5:28 pm

I had a quick look at Prime and it appeared that all the photos I uploaded went into a single "pool" and that I couldn't split it by directory?

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Re: Photo storage

Post by p6025 » Wed Oct 16, 2019 5:51 pm

ChrisCwmbran wrote:
Wed Oct 16, 2019 5:28 pm
I had a quick look at Prime and it appeared that all the photos I uploaded went into a single "pool" and that I couldn't split it by directory?
You can create, or upload, whatever folder structure you like within amazondrive. if you view from amazon photos, it is a pool of images in a time line, which you can put into 'albums'.


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