Saving your pictures of your completed reborns

I have a ton of pictures of Reborns I’ve completed. Wips of hands, feet, hair, hands etc. pictures of ones I’ve sold n ones I still have. I’m thinking about deleting all of wips of Reborns that have sold. I’m just gonna keep 1 or 2 complete pictures of the ones that have sold. How long do you keep your wip pictures? How or where do you store your pictures? I have a folder on my iPad for Reborns n wips. But I discovered that They are still in the regular photo album n if I try to delete them, they delete from the wip n reborn folder as well.

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I’ve been wanting to make a scrapbook of all dolls I’ve completed so far, but haven’t gotten to it yet.
I usually delete some WIP pics, unless they’re particularly interesting. I tend to keep the best pics of the completed dolls.

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I use google photos. It has unlimited storage & I can organize them into folders. I keep all my photos there, not just reborns but personal as well.

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I have the cloud. All my pictures suppose to back up to it. How does google work? Is it free?

Yup it’s free. You just log in with your gmail. I also have the app on my phone, so any pictures I take on my phone go to google photos and I can access them on my laptop if I need to.

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I save my babies in individual albums on my computer so any photos I take of that particular baby is stored.

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What will you do if you run out of storage on your computer?

For saving photos without taking up computer space I would highly recommend an external hard drive. They’re super easy to use, and you can get great deals on them if you shop around.

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The likelihood of that happening is low unless you have lots of software and programs stored on it. lol My phone is 8G I believe and I have currently 4000+ photos and all my apps. A computer can store MUCH MORE. But you can do external drives, SD cards, and etc.

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I have a large 3 ring I put 3 photos of each baby and I have it sectioned ones sold one section for ones still available. When they sell I put who they went to and address. I have a section for customs and some of the nice responses about that baby. I don’t trust my computer, old fashioned I guess.:footprints::footprints::baby:

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I know about sad cards an external hard drives. I have a laptop n a computer which I don’t really use. I mainly use my iPads n iPhone.

I I bought the picture Keeper. I haven’t used it yet but I think it’s basically a flash drive that supposedly detects all images and weeds them out. If you have them organized, then a flash drive would probably be cheaper. If space is an issue.

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That’s a good idea.

I trusted mine and when it went down,I lost all my photos.Kids told me I was crazy for not having them backed up somewhere else.

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Always have an external harddrive! One or more!. If your computer crashes they charge an arm and a leg (no pun intended) to try and recover, if they even can. My last one crashed right before Christmas last yr and I didn’t back it up so I lost so much. Sledge hammers work wonders. :sleepy::sob:

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I am very leary about cloud service. (and internet in general). Awhile back, we were in a “vacation dead zone” I installed messenger- the stand alone app on my phone. Weeks later,ready to run out the door, FB page is up on desktop, the alert goes off and pics of my hubby and I start popping up on the screen. FB was trying to do us a favor by combining everything in one place. Thank goodness they were just scenic pics. No thanks FB- I removed messenger.

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When I had messenger on my old phone, Facebook would suggest friends from my contact list as people I may know. I knew then that messenger was searching my phone. I don’t have it on my main phone anymore. It is on my iPad. You also gotta be careful with some of these apps. For instance, if you download a card game, why does or would it need access to your photos?

I use jump drives. Easily portable and they have plenty of space. My intentions are to put my photos into a book using Freebooks. I have used the service for a book for my sister and loved the results. Want to do several for my reborns.

I keep my files, not just pictures, in several different places on different media. Hopefully, they won’t all go bad at the same time. :slight_smile: I have 2 external HD’s, and a good many thumb drives, etc., and lots of CD’s and DVD’s. I would hate to lose all my pictures, for sure. I have thought of putting a copy in a safe deposit box. :slight_smile:

I like all my pictures at my fingertips. They are all in folders by year and event, and my dolls by name. I copy everything once or twice a year to Shutterfly which has free storage. That’s convenient because I use them to print or make scrapbooks. I also backup my files to flash drives every six months.

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