Good evening and sorry to hear that you are having problems with your photos on the cloud. I was also using this backup method, but in the end I preferred to copy my files to an external hard drive and onto a USB stick at the same time.
I hope you find a satisfactory solution. 🍀🍀
Have a nice Sunday
JC
Thank you for your very detailed reply. It makes me think.
I have nearly 14,000 photos, images and videos in a folder called “Photos” (by the way I don’t even know what that is!!!) They appear by date and I downloaded them from my smartphone at several different times.
So I’d have to copy them to a USB stick. But is that really possible? Is it difficult or slow? And which key do I need?
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An SSD for backups is actually “throwing pearls before swine”, i.e. simply unnecessarily too expensive.
It can be done, but a normal external USB hard disc is much cheaper and certainly more suitable for a pure backup.
Z. For example a WD Elements Portable which is available from 1 to 6 TB.
Here is an example with 2 TB:
https://www.digitec.ch/de/s1/product/wd-elements-portable-2-tb-externe-festplatte-448766
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By the way, if you don’t have large video libraries for backup, the external storage can also be significantly smaller.
Here’s another super-small USB stick that I often use myself.
It is available up to 1000 GB, here is the 256 GB version, which is actually already sufficient for most “normal users”:
https://www.digitec.ch/de/s1/product/sandisk-ultra-dual-drive-go-256-gb-usb-a-usb-c-usb-stick-12453049
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You can look up your real memory requirements yourself, then you will also know your actual target requirements.
By the way, a normal average photo has a memory size of about 3 MB.
14,000 photos of 3 MB each would result in approximately 42 GB.
Even if you only had extremely high-resolution JPEGs with, for example, 9 MB on average, there would still be more than 100% reserve storage space on the 256 GB stick with around 14,000 photos.
Incidentally, I currently have around 35,000 photos myself, which require a total of around 65 GB of memory.
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