It used to be you could find a box of photos or keepsakes that you inherited to look back on how things were or when you were a kid. Now, most of that is stored on phones, and most parents probably don’t think to share or save them in a way to be passed down in the future.

  • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    I reccommend, and am certain many parents already do, to print the good photos and put them in a book.

    Back your stuff up is good advice, in case the worst happens, but nothing beats physical books your kids can look through.

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      3 hours ago

      I bought one of those photo printers for this exact reason. Every once in a while, I’ll print some favorites and put them up in the house and in a photo book. It’s really nice to see them in physical form and not in my phone!

      I’ve also given friends copies of group photos as gifts!

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      4 hours ago

      Better yet, back up to your computer, that is backed up to an external hard drive, that is copied to a trustworthy cloud somewhere. Always good to have duplicates should something happen.

      I lost about 12 years of pictures after getting rid of OneDrive (getting rid of Microsoft cuz I maxed out the 1TB anyway), and no joke a few weeks later on my personal server, 4 out of 8 hard drives failed. Thinking it was my raid card, I replaced them, couldn’t get it to function. Apparently a storm that we had fried some components and not others, and I swear I had duplicates on some old offline drives, so when I installed those to restore, I did not have everything. Crushed my heart!! I bought a bunch of large flash drives specifically for photos and videos, and started to back up to those for historical purposes.