<p>Thanks, blueiguana. </p>
<p>I have had several external HDs go over time. So, I don’t trust them for online backup. </p>
<p>Do you think DropBox is secure, BCEagle1?</p>
<p>We’re also using Carbonite. It’s slow to upload large files (like videos), but I like the way it works. Access to your files is easy.</p>
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<p>I’ve never looked into DropBox though my son has used it for non-sensitive stuff.</p>
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<p>Kodak, Sony and Digital Railroad also all promised to keep online photos forever …. until each went out of business.</p>
<p>Never put all of one’s eggs (photos) in a single basket.
Online storage is great but don’t forget to also use a couple of removable hard drives as backup.</p>
<p>And, very important: make sure that at least one media storage device is off-site!!! If the USB hard drive is sitting next to the home computer and both get damaged by a burst water pipe, or kitchen fire, etc., it doesn’t do much good.</p>
<p>Other online options, by the way, not listed yet include: Snapfish, Photobucket, Amazon Cloud Drive, Google Drive and SkyDrive.</p>
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<p>I’m all for security but I don’t follow the reasoning behind this. What’s the actual concern?</p>
<p>And, even in a “secured location,” you have control … but so do all of the sys admins of the site.</p>
<p>Even back in the day of 35mm film, people gave up “control” …</p>
<p>[One</a> Hour Photo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hour_Photo]One”>One Hour Photo - Wikipedia)</p>
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<p>Unless you developed yourself.</p>
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<p>True. And I did for a little while (B&W only). But setting up a darkroom in my bedroom closest did not work out very well.</p>
<p>99.9% of people brought their rolls to the local drug store (or mailed them to places like York or Clark).</p>
<p>Wow, I just checked. “Both” * are still in business!</p>
<p>[York</a> Photo - Home](<a href=“http://www.yorkphoto.com/]York”>http://www.yorkphoto.com/)</p>
<p>[ClarkColor</a> - Home](<a href=“http://www.clarkcolor.com/]ClarkColor”>http://www.clarkcolor.com/)</p>
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That’s not true if the location permits the user to specify their own ‘key’ for encrypting the files. In that case even the sys admins can’t see any actual content of the files since they’re encrypted and the sys admins don’t have the key.</p>
<p>Just got a groupon coupon for scanmyphotos.com, so we’ll try that.</p>