Tuesday, March 25, 2008

What to do about old image files?

I am making room on my hard-drive by emptying a 10 gigabyte "temp" folder full of old pictures and videos of rock piles. The CDs I am using for backup will not work for more than a couple of years.
Any suggestions about what to do with these old pics?

2 comments :

Geophile said...

We bought an external hard drive and we store old pictures and files, including music we aren't using but may want in the future, on it. I think it's 80 gigs but you can get a variety of sizes.

JimP said...

If you really want to hold onto those files, I suggest backing them up in multiple places -- an external hard drive AND CD's. If you store the CD's properly they will last -- and then just create new back-up CD's every two years or so.