Online Photo
Storage Safety
To ensure that pictures don't
vanish unexpectedly, almost all the online photo storage services
advise customers to keep their own back-ups on CDs or DVDs. A photographer
who has pictures stored on a computer hard drive, a back-up disk and a paid
online service that bills his credit card regularly has a high likelihood of
being able to recover from any disaster.
Online photo storage
and sharing is restrictive and not as secure as they are often promoted to
be. Most online photo storage services operate on a model that tightly
restricts the use of the service. Forget to login, or in some cases, make a
purchase, and your account and your photos will be deleted. If a loved one
becomes incapacitated or passes away, it can be impossible to retrieve their
photos from the service.
You must read the small print when you sign up for an online photo
storage service - AND copy your images onto a CD or DVD. |