Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever
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Re: Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever
#2"You" here being people who held digital assets themselves and didn't bring them into the future as their NAS was rebirthed across disk generations.
I am aware of in-filestore corruption of my files including images, and I know I have holes but the curation failure is more in 1984-1990 than after digital cameras entered my life and a scanner is rectifying some of that. But it's a road of tears regarding metadata.
More worrying is the failure inside cloud. Takeout from Google suggests some bitrot lurks in the assets there too.
That 1200bpi reel of tape, and the pre DLT tape cartridge are a worry: media may be OK, readers are rare and services doing recovery charge significantly more than "photo memories of granny" costs.
Re: Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever
#3In 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?
Re: Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever
#4In 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?
iPhone AirDrop works really well?
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#5I think things like text messages and related memories are being lost because companies like apple jealously prevent exporting and saving. (camera roll allows export)
Lots of relatives lost a phone or access to an account and with it, all photos from friends, text messages to deceased loved ones, and more.
all this stuff should be exportable to multiple places for lots of backups on all kinds of media.
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#6Sad, really. My high school years were all on MySpace and I haven't seen them since. It did make me get more serious about personal data preservation as an adult though, so it's not all bad. And maybe some of those haircuts were better left to history.
Re: Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever
#7"You" here being people who held digital assets themselves and didn't bring them into the future as their NAS was rebirthed across disk generations. I am aware of in-filestore corruption of my files including images, and I know I have holes but the curation failure is more in 1984-1990 than after digital cameras entered my life and a scanner is rectifying some of that. But it's a road of tears regarding metadata. Mor…
It's a BBC article, for a general audience.
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#8A bit too much drama for nothing - storage was never reliable, HDDs were dying since forever. So anybody serious with backups did multiple physical copies, which is a strategy relevant also today.
With that, nothing is lost unless facing a proper clusterfuck. Just checked my photos from 2004 trip to US where I bought my first digital camera, yepp all good across few older and one new HDD.
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#9In 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?
I regularly export photos from Apple Photos on my Macbook. You just cmd-a cmd-c cmd-v. Sure its clunky but it works.
Re: Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever
#10In 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.