The question is mainly about photos/videos from friends and family. In the recent years I always dumped the photos from my mobile phone onto some external hd every few months.<p>But I notice that things get complicated because they are not really accessible anymore.<p>Further more, if you have a family, how do you join the photos taken from different smart phones of your family members?<p>Do you burry them in WhatsApp?<p>Do you choose a cloud solution, dropbox or google photos?<p>Do you care about privacy and self host something, or do you not care at all and just print them into photo albums on paper?
I've got a set of folders, backed up on an external drive, a server I just built for our family, and soon (and again) on Backblaze.
All of my photos and videos are in a folder of the form
\masterarchive\source\yyyy\yyyymmddd
The camera puts things in folders, I put those folders in as subfolders.<p>Long ago, I lost the best portrait ever of a friend because I saved the 1/4 size over the original.... so now I ALWAYS save files with a new name before doing anything else in GIMP, etc.<p>Google's Picasa was awesome until they killed it, because it did facial recognition... but the last version has a bug and gets confused if there are multiple faces in a photo. 8(<p>Digikam also does faces, but the UI is weird, and it just quits way too often... so I'm looking for a better manager.<p>I'll probably suck it up, and fork over the money for ThumbsPlus again... I like it, even if I can't afford it right now.
I use Google Photos (Android user btw).
Works perfectly, auto-back from my phone, can scroll through them via the web interface, and easy to find back pictures of dates/places/people/...
I've a bunch of year folders from years ago when I only produced what's now seemingly a month's worth of pictures in a year.<p>Now I'm dumping pictures onto a harddrive every 6 months or so. I'm planning on dumping everuthing into one folder and writing a shell script to sort them into 'yyyy/mm/yyyy-mm-dd'. Just need to work out how I'm doing that.<p>I don't use or trust online storage.
I mean, I've got <i>my</i> favorite app.<p>Our photos from our phones get copied to the home NAS via Resilio Sync where they get picked up by PhotoStructure.<p>(I wrote PhotoStructure).