Advice needed regarding more photo storage!

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Fark Paul thats either a lot of photo's or you upload your photo's to photobucket at the original size that they are taken.

I don't use photobucket anymore, personally I think its a waste of time for me. If I was sharing photo's with multiple forums and friends then yes I would use photobucket because of simply linking and sharing the link on the various forums / friends.

I only upload photo's to this forum and the occasional facebook post so I it's pointless
( waste of time uploading ) for me to upload photo's to photobucket.

There is no need to upload photo's at their original size for the web its pointless and takes longer to upload than smaller file sizes. Just compare uploading 1 digital camera file at say 2-6mb depending on your camera settings to a resized photo at 200-500kb. a lot of difference in time uploading especially when doing a heap of photo's at once.

I use a program called fotosizer: www.fotosizer.com it's fress and relative simple to use.

You can do one photo at a time or batch ( multiply ) photo's

I save all my photo's from digital camera and phone to pc and only resize the photo's I want to upload.

Do you use photobucket as a backup as well hence uploading original file sizes ( which I assume you are doing )??? If so forget it, again there is no point in uploading photo's to various free websites just for a backup.

Back up your photo's to a removable hard drive and keep it at a friend's place or if at home in a fireproof safe. Backing up original size photo's to a removable drive again is much quicker than uploading it to a website.

Thats my 2cents worth on the subject

Out of curiosity, do you backup your important data ( word, exel....etc ) on a regular basis to anywhere other than the pc????

G'day mate,

I think you have hit the nail on the head, i am loading up too big of a file. Unfortunately i am a d!ck-brain when it comes to cameras and computers, i wounder why it was taking ages to up-load photos to Photobucket. I might have to give you a phone call if that is possible, to get some guidance please?

Regards,

Paul

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G'day mate,

I think you have hit the nail on the head, i am loading up too big of a file. Unfortunately i am a d!ck-brain when it comes to cameras and computers, i wounder why it was taking ages to up-load photos to Photobucket. I might have to give you a phone call if that is possible, to get some guidance please?

Regards,

Paul

Paul, download the free version of fotosizer from here ( use the green download now link ) http://www.fotosizer.com/

Install the program, let me know when you have done that and I will post up a help thread when I have time on how to resize using that program. Trust me its very easy to do even for the not so computer literate people.

If you still have troubles after I post up the how to I will PM you my phone number so you can give me a call and I will guide you through it over the phone.

Cheers

Toddie