I am paying $20/month for my 1TB. storage and my wife's 1TB storage. We each have about 40,000 pictures on iCloud that take up about 350GB on each of our accounts.
2 Questions:
1. How do I download them all from Apple? Anyone know any good software for this. I read several articles telling me to select them and then download. I am not going to select 40,000 pictures to download. There has to be a better way.
2. Apple's maximum plan is 2TB. Theoretically even though I am not there yet, what would I do if I ran out of space?
3. I don't take a lot of pictures. I know 40,000 sounds like a lot, but this is an accumulation of pictures since about 2008. What do you do to preserve your pictures?
I am 43 years old. When I was younger, we used film. You wouldn't snap a picture for every little thing. You didn't have your camera with you 24/7 and sleep next to it. You thought twice about taking a picture, because essentially it cost money, and you might run out of room on your film which only allowed for 24 pictures or 36.
Obviously now, nobody thinks twice about photographing every little thing, as well as taking multiple pictures of the same thing, "just in case".
Forget about printing photos and putting them in an album.
I am also afraid to store them on a hard drive that doesn't have RAID and a built in back up. I have had too many hard drive failures over the years to trust a single hard drive.
Im sure I am not the only one with this issue. So as the years go by, will apple start adding bigger and bigger plans? They basically have us by the balls.
2 Questions:
1. How do I download them all from Apple? Anyone know any good software for this. I read several articles telling me to select them and then download. I am not going to select 40,000 pictures to download. There has to be a better way.
2. Apple's maximum plan is 2TB. Theoretically even though I am not there yet, what would I do if I ran out of space?
3. I don't take a lot of pictures. I know 40,000 sounds like a lot, but this is an accumulation of pictures since about 2008. What do you do to preserve your pictures?
I am 43 years old. When I was younger, we used film. You wouldn't snap a picture for every little thing. You didn't have your camera with you 24/7 and sleep next to it. You thought twice about taking a picture, because essentially it cost money, and you might run out of room on your film which only allowed for 24 pictures or 36.
Obviously now, nobody thinks twice about photographing every little thing, as well as taking multiple pictures of the same thing, "just in case".
Forget about printing photos and putting them in an album.
I am also afraid to store them on a hard drive that doesn't have RAID and a built in back up. I have had too many hard drive failures over the years to trust a single hard drive.
Im sure I am not the only one with this issue. So as the years go by, will apple start adding bigger and bigger plans? They basically have us by the balls.