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Kali

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9. that sounds kind of low for a lot of photos

Thu Mar 24, 2022, 02:58 PM

Mar 2022

did you save them at a low resolution? personally, I think they should save a long time on discs, but if they were really important I might make another set to keep somewhere safe (bank safe deposit box?)

there is a risk of technology changing and like old floppy discs, not being able to easily find a machine to read them in the future - but you can keep an eye on that to deal at the time.

thumbdrive is good too, maybe for the second set of copies. also an external hard drive is a good option and a little harder to misplace since they are bigger than thumbdrives LOL. all will easily hold the amount of data you posted.

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that sounds kind of low for a lot of photos Kali Mar 2022 #9