Where to you keep your uploaded photos?

[luv2sleep]

I have been using Kodak EasyShare because its very easy, organizes by upload date, and checks for duplicates before uploading the pictures into my computer. It doesn't always work though. Uploading the pictures directly to my computer is a mess because I'm not that organized. I'm looking for a software program that uploads, organizes by date, and checks for duplicates. Anything out there that's similar and reliable? Also, where do you store your photos? I have been using shutterfly because its free. Kodak started charging. Thanks!

 

[cjstarr]

I first make folders and then upload to my computer,
next I copy to three more external hard drives for backup.
For offsite I use Photobucket.

 

[BirdsOfPreyDave]

I have Eye-Fi upload a copy of everything I shoot to my Photobucket account. After I've uploaded the cards to the computer and have post-processed, I use Lightroom to upload select photos to Flickr. If there are pictures that include family/friends, I sometimes also use Lightroom to post them to Facebook.

Most of what I share here on DIS is from the Flickr account, because those of the images I'm most proud of. If I'm playing one of the games on the photography board (the picture after me, all the colors of the rainbow, etc.), I may occassionally post something from the PhotoBucket account that didn't get edited with Lightroom/Photoshop.

Those sites are really just for sharing images, though, which I'm thinking is what the OP is asking about. I have a completely different configuration for archive and backup that involves a company called CrashPlan.

 

[clarkshel]

I've been having issues trying to organize my photo this past couple years. My wife created a pretty good system in our picture photos. Organized by month and year. I moved this folder structure in my Dropbox location. So it was auto backed to Dropbox. I messed it all up by importing the photos to iPhoto. I then tried to fix it by importing to Picasa. I ended up with so many duplicate pictures. It was a nightmare. I then purchased Lightroom 4. I imported the folders from Dropbox. I also downloaded a duplicate add-on for Lightroom. I was able to remove some if the duplicates.

Right now I create a copy of my pictures folder in Dropbox and my iPhoto library onto my iMac. I installed a Duplicate finder app to delete the duplicated photos from my iPhoto library. I spent a lot of hours going through this and deleted a couple thousand duplicate photos from my iPhoto library. I looked and I still have about 50gb of photos in my iPhoto library. I want to make sure I don't lose any pictures. It is a very slow process and I'm getting very frustrated with it. As is my wife. Lol

 

[luv2sleep]

I've been having issues trying to organize my photo this past couple years. My wife created a pretty good system in our picture photos. Organized by month and year. I moved this folder structure in my Dropbox location. So it was auto backed to Dropbox. I messed it all up by importing the photos to iPhoto. I then tried to fix it by importing to Picasa. I ended up with so many duplicate pictures. It was a nightmare. I then purchased Lightroom 4. I imported the folders from Dropbox. I also downloaded a duplicate add-on for Lightroom. I was able to remove some if the duplicates.

Right now I create a copy of my pictures folder in Dropbox and my iPhoto library onto my iMac. I installed a Duplicate finder app to delete the duplicated photos from my iPhoto library. I spent a lot of hours going through this and deleted a couple thousand duplicate photos from my iPhoto library. I looked and I still have about 50gb of photos in my iPhoto library. I want to make sure I don't lose any pictures. It is a very slow process and I'm getting very frustrated with it. As is my wife. Lol

The duplicates drive me crazy. It's the reason why I prefer EasyShare. I will look at Lightroom. Thanks!

I have a photo bucket account. I should use it more.

 

[mamaCta]

On my laptop I use the organizer built into Adobe PSE for copying from the card.
My main back up storage is on a drive on my network. I can access it from any computer with internet.
I have not decided to pay for mass online storage yet. I mainly use Photobucket for online hosting because it is private, but easy to share on other websites.

 

[wbeem]

I have been using Kodak EasyShare because its very easy, organizes by upload date, and checks for duplicates before uploading the pictures into my computer. It doesn't always work though. Uploading the pictures directly to my computer is a mess because I'm not that organized. I'm looking for a software program that uploads, organizes by date, and checks for duplicates. Anything out there that's similar and reliable? Also, where do you store your photos? I have been using shutterfly because its free. Kodak started charging. Thanks!

Apple Aperture, Adobe Lightroom, Photo Mechanic are the top players.

 

[DSLRuser]

My desktop PC uses windows 8 drive storage technology. 10 tb spread accross 4 drives with data duplication. means i can lose a drive but my data si still good. but only 5 tb of my 10 tb is "usable"

my photos are cataloged in lightroom. I shot jpeg from 2001 to 2011 and those 80k photos are in 1 catalog. 2012 and new is raw and in there own catalog.

1 time a month I back all that up to 2 external drives and take them to work.

I also have a cloud drive with all my 80k jpegs. dont have the raws up there yet

i use flikr only to host files i want to share onvarious web sites.

 

[clarkshel]

I'm jealous. . Wish I had all that storage space. I do have a NAS setup on my network with two 1 TB drives in it setup with RAID 0. I only see 1 TB. I want to buy a 4 bay NAS in the near future and put in four 3 TB drives in it. Should give me enough space for all my movies, TV shows and pictures.

 

[DSLRuser]

I want to buy a 4 bay NAS in the near future and put in four 3 TB drives in it. Should give me enough space for all my movies, TV shows and pictures.

Thats whats great about the windows 8 storage pool. No extra boxes to buy. My motherboard has 6 sata ports + 4 ide channels.

assuming my case and powersupply can handle it (they do) I can fit 9 drives + dvd in my machine.

 

[Domo]

Although I chiefly use my own servers, Flickr is an excellent free service.