I'd like to find a "cloud" service for images - problem is, I'd got approximately 300GB of images going back to 2001. Some duplication, but mostly lots of RAW files. Dropbox wants $500/year. I need a more affordable solution Any ideas?
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Arlo Barnes <arlo.bar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I got Dropbox mainly for collaboration (sharing datasets and R files), and > now I use it as the central storage location for all my photos - they go > straight from the card (which is then cleared to make room) to Dropbox > through it's automatic transfer function. I have had no problems, although > the occasional horror story of individual files being lost without a trace > has prompted me to start uploading them to a photoblog. > I use Chrome sync[h] but because the computers I use are generally > somewhat slow (especially with the number of tabs I am in the habit of > opening) I don't often use the extensions that are synchronized. I am not > impressed with the bookmark sync[h], as old folders that have been deleted > on one computer are often restored from another. Then again, I have > somewhat given up hope on keeping track of things I want to investigate > with bookmarks anyway, as I create just too many. To-do lists have > supplanted them for the most part; I still use Chrome's "save this window > as a folder-full of bookmarks" function to save a browsing/work session for > a time when my computer is less bogged down. > For the most part, though, I have been trying to eliminate the need for > backups altogether. As a student with not much budget for purchasing > memory, and one that uses temporarily loaned computers and ones that break > after only a year or two of use, I find it much easier to use online > services for most program and data storage - using Google Docs rather than > Word or Open Office, for instance. It makes collaboration and sharing a lot > easier, too - I can worry less about file formats. To pick another example, > instead of using iTunes or WinAmp or VLC (although I also have the latter > for miscellaneous purposes) with a music library I use Grooveshark. > There are still many things that need to be offline due to the paucity of > Internet access in my house and sometimes at school, but many things can > just be re-found - it is easier for me to re-download my ebooks, and > various programs (Pidgin, GIMP, Inkscape, Notepad++, Chrome of course, a > tuner program, and others including those mentioned above [Dropbox and > VLC]) than to find and transfer them on a jumpdrive or such. However, I > noticed I have also taken increasingly to putting all my files in one place > - a folder on the desktop - rather than using My Documents. I even run > programs that do not need to alter the registry and therefore self-install, > such as tkMOO, from the desktop. With all this centrally located it is > easier to pick up and move shop should I need to. > And now I have a website I can put stuff I don't mind being public in one > place, too. > > This all might be oblique to your question since I am not using the pay > Dropbox, or Dropbox in a big way at all. > > -Arlo James Barnes > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- *Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.*
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