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Computer Care Backing up photos by Alan Stainer What are the most important files on your computer? To most people it is their photos. Sure there might be other files on your system that are important, but you can always recreate them if something goes wrong, however difficult or tedious the task. Photos are different. Photos are treasured memories that can never be replaced. So protecting your photos is really important. That means having some form of backup in place so that you are covered in case of hardware failure, theft or some other disaster (fire, flood and other accidents). Thankfully desktop operating systems like Windows, Mac and Linux come with backup software installed. All you really need then is an external hard drive that is large enough to store the backups. Remember you may need it to store multiple copies of things, so pick a big one if you can. Backup drives aren't immune to failure, so it's a good idea to use cloud storage as well. This has the added advantage that you can backup photos from your smartphone or tablet as well. Google Photos is the best available when it comes to photo storage, as it gives you unlimited storage for free for anything up to 16 MP (megapixels) in size. www.alansitsolutions.com
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