Uploading photos from my mobile phone to files suddenly no longer works!

Freimmientis36 · 2025-03-22T17:45:55+00:00

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?

Freimmientis36 · 2025-03-22T17:54:53+00:00

Freimmientis36

I also have almost all of the same photos in a folder called “Images”!

It’s a total mess!

Freimmientis36 · 2025-03-22T17:58:43+00:00

jean-claude oehl

Thank you and enjoy your Sunday.

WalterB · 2025-03-22T19:11:27+00:00

Freimmientis36

Not a stick but e.g. an external SSD 1-2 TB which can be connected to the USB port.

I’ve had a Samsung SSD 2TB for a long time and they are very fast.

jean-claude oehl · 2025-03-22T19:16:54+00:00

WalterB

I totally agree! Given the number of photos, you need an external SSD.

Freimmientis36 · 2025-03-22T19:42:25+00:00

WalterB

Thanks for your reply. It is certainly a good solution, a little expensive, it seems. As I’m listening to ITunes recordings, I wonder if I could also save the music tracks on this SSD to back them up.

Werner · 2025-03-22T20:03:04+00:00

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Werner · 2025-03-22T20:04:26+00:00

Freimmientis36

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

Freimmientis36 · 2025-03-22T20:17:11+00:00

Werner

Thank you very much.
I find this product interesting and affordable.

Werner · 2025-03-22T20:37:12+00:00

Freimmientis36

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

Freimmientis36 · 2025-03-22T20:46:13+00:00

Werner

It’s an interesting solution too, but I wonder if I could really save all my photos there, i.e. nearly 14,000!

Werner · 2025-03-22T21:00:29+00:00

Freimmientis36

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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Freimmientis36 · 2025-03-22T21:15:52+00:00

Werner

So I’m going to get such a key (256GB.) I’ll come back if I have trouble making the backup.

Thank you again.

Have a good evening.

WalterB · 2025-03-23T00:06:54+00:00

Freimmientis36

A stick is much too slow for me with the write rate compared to an SSD.

Werner · 2025-03-23T01:14:42+00:00

WalterB

Sure it’s slower, but just to make a backup of “a few” Fötelis it doesn’t really matter how fast it is.

Just run it once and then add new photos incrementally with a backup programme (such as “Personal Backup”).