Too Busy to Risk Losing Photographs:

I imagine you, like most people, have never really considered what you might lose if your phone gets stolen apart from perhaps the obvious - your phone - and the next thing to cause fear - your contacts and banking information.

What about the repercussions if your computer or laptop dies? Well, the obvious question of how can you work from home or a coffee shop when you lose that vital tool and the challenge of emails get more tricky on a mobile.

But you probably haven’t considered what will happen to all your many, many photographs and files- UNTIL THE FATEFUL MOMENT THE WORST HAPPENS.

I’ll never forget being approached in tears - my screen has cracked and I cannot get my photographs or videos of the first 2 years of my daughter’s life off. I can’t even put on the transfer app to move them to my new phone. They are all gone - I was going to put them on the computer but now it is too late!

Saving/Backing up: I have started recommending my simple system of THREES for protection and backup - save your photos in a minimum of 3 places - because tech can fail!

Last year I thanked God for my backups because never having experienced it before I then had five failures: 2x computer disks, 2x Pendrives 1x memory card!

So remember the simple rule of THREES - save your photos on:

1. Computer or Laptop or Phone in an assets folder for using and sharing.

2. Disk or Pendrive or External Harddrive not affected by power surges /outages as an accessible backup incase you move/accidentally delete your photos on your computer.

3. The Cloud - e.g. Googledrive, Onedrive or paid backup service such as Backblaze not linked to localised issues such as flood/fire/earthquake.