Why Would Anyone Be Stupid Enough To Store Anything Private, (Not Just Photos) On Some 'cloud' Storage

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2739215/Jennifer-Lawrence-victim-hacker-leaks-slew-graphic-nude-photos-Oscar-winning-actress.html

[Answerprancer]

"your usual crew to follow suit" ...that's a new one, I have a "crew" do I?!
How utterly preposterous, you just cannot handle being a) WRONG and b) In the MINORITY with your wrongness.

You are a bitter angry dogmatic, right-wing hypocrite.
I am not a 'troll' ...you don't seem to know the meaning of the word.

*You* are more likely to be scaring new people away with your constant barrage of bitter bile dredged up from the Daily Mail (afaic)

[EDDIE51]

Polaroid film IS now available again at least in Type 600 , spectra and Sx70 format. It is made by the 'Impossible Project' in B/w and colour.
So do not throw away your old Polaroid MUCH safer for 'intimate' photos.

[EDDIE51]

'Impossible Project' Polaroid film
https://www.the-impossible-project.com/film/

[anotheoldgit]

ColinandJess

/// As for the mobile device to plug into my mobile devices seriously what's the point the whole idea of have mobile devices is so the they are mobile and you are not dragging add ons around! ///

No one suggested 'dragging add one around'

You would use the separate hard drive to transfer your personal files from your phone to the devise and then unplug it and store it where you chose.

So unless you live in a caravan you would not be dragging it around.

[Peter Pedant]

A child fell onto a chicken coop
and ended up with a nail sticking out of his head.

clearly a record needed to be kept/compiled and getting that developed in the good old days of paper photog was fun

( I made a special declaration )

did make me careful what I photoed thereafter....

[Svejk]

ColinandJess
/// I was a little joke///

I'm saying nowt.

[Retrochic]

Well -as much as I'm sure the OP can stick up for himself I cannot believe reading through this thread the bullying and gang mentality raising its ugly head once again on what should be a serious subject. One poster seems to make a crass or sarcastic remark and all their little mates come out of the woodwork for a little piece of it. Frankly its ugly and shows up the antagonists for what they are. I'm seeing this over a wide variety of Topics and the culprits are only adding to the disintegration of the site. What a shame a few antagonists desperate to prove their superiority clog up a thread with their gratuitous comments.

[Svejk]

hear hear, retro. I often think of saying something but I know AOG can tough it out. ;)

[anotheoldgit]

Retrochic & Svejk

Thank you both very much.

[sp1814]

Actually AOG...the reason I am so paranoid about data loss, is that my external hard drive contains my entire iTunes library of 25,000 songs, 500 music videos and about 200 films and TV shows.

I first encoded all of my CDs a few years ago. It took months (about six months) to digitise my library. I never want to do that again.

In fact, it's just as well I'm so paranoid - my primary external drive died a couple of weeks ago (this is the drive I originally had my iTunes library on) after I dropped it.

But because I had everything backed up to another drive I keep at work...disaster avoided,

[sp1814]

By the way - for anyone who's still interested - I didn't see AOG's comment to me earlier as being rude (the lead lined box).

Sorry if I inadvertently started a little skirmish.

[whirlyhurly]

Whatever happened to keeping private photos in an album. (call me old fashioned).

[ummmm]

They take up too much room.

[Gromit]

Hard drives are prone to mechanical failureand are expensive.

You should not have your backed up data on the same premises as your computer/device for obvious reasons.

If you have any precious data, it should also be backed up to cloud storage.

Where these thick celebs went wrong is using the same password on their iCloud account as on other services. Weak guessable passwords is what went wrong here.

Sp.
I back my entire iTunes library to here. It is cheap, and works great.

http://www.backblaze.com

[viv38]

I agree whirly, I love looking through my Mum's albums and reminiscing with her.

[Mamyalynne]

I have half a wardrobe full of photos (not private type ones, burnt those).

[sp1814]

Gromit

Thanks for the hat tip to backblaze.

That sounds perfect...although I note that if I ever needed to restore my iTunes library, it would take three days (I have about 750Gb of content).

Perhaps I should go through my music and actually start deleting the rubbish.

That should being down the volume by quite a bit.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// I back my entire iTunes library to here. It is cheap, and works great. ///

http://www.backblaze.com

$5 / £3 a month, do you actually pay that?