Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever • Hacker News Board

Re: Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever

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Post by hulitu » Sun, Jan 04, 2026, 8:24 PM UTC

jamiek88 wrote: post #10

1970-01-01 wrote: post #3

In 2006 I successfully copied all pictures off my Motorola Razr via Bluetooth to my PC in one go. Try doing that with your new iPhone Air. Who's losing old photos again?

You anti Apple militants are weird man. It’s like a two click operation.

> You anti Apple militants are weird man. It’s like a two click operation.

When it works, yes.

Take photos -> connect to PC -> photos are not there -> go on Iphone photos app, look for them, look _at_ them -> connect again to PC -> they are finally there. Of course always giving the password. FY Apple.

Re: Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever

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Post by hulitu » Sun, Jan 04, 2026, 9:21 PM UTC

> As for the rest? Long gone, thanks to a dead laptop, defunct email and social media accounts and a sea of tiny memory cards and USB drives lost in the shuffle of multiple cross-country moves. It's like my memories were nothing more than a dream.

Welcome to ... backup. Now, blaming this on photos, is a bit counterproductive.

Re: Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever

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Post by stackedinserter » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:43 AM UTC

iberator wrote: post #42

stackedinserter wrote: post #19

Not only for early 2000's, even now people routinely keep ALL their photos on their phones, without making any copies. Take a photo -> send to someone -> keep them forever -> delete when there's no space left, that's standard lifecycle, at least in my circle.

You must be extremely young.

Dude I loaded programs into ferrite cubes from perforated tapes, gtfo.

Re: Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 1:29 PM UTC

piva00 wrote: post #11

1970-01-01 wrote: post #3

In 2006 I successfully copied all pictures off my Motorola Razr via Bluetooth to my PC in one go. Try doing that with your new iPhone Air. Who's losing old photos again?

It's actually quite simple to copy photos from an iPhone, even my mother-in-law does it regularly to save them, and prints some out as gifts. Much easier (and faster) than the BT stuff from the Razr era.

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