Post by DADDY O on May 11, 2017 9:52:56 GMT
I finally figured out how to solve my photo bucket problems, after trying several photo storage places on the web.
I am now using Dropbox. Dropbox is a file & photo storage program. I travel a lot, so I use Dropbox to store all of my important files. I also now use it to store all my photos. The program is completely private unless you want to “share” photos or files with someone else.
Dropbox creates a folder on your computer titled “dropbox”. It also creates an identical folder in the cloud. When you are on your computer, simply add files to the dropbox folders that you create within the dropbox folder, and if you want to share them on other websites, or between family & friends, simply right click the file or folder or picture and you will get an address of where it is stored in the cloud. Use that address to show your photos here or other websites. The beauty of it, is you can add a group of photos in one folder, and then share the entire folder. When one clicks on the shared folder, all the photos are displayed. You can do that with a group of photos, or singular photos.
Another beauty is download the dropbox app to your smartphone or ipad and you can see the photos there. Not only that, but yur smartphone will automatically upload all of your pictures to the dropbox cloud. Then the cloud will automatically download all of them to your computer, IPad or any other devices that you have dropbox loaded on. If you don’t want to share the photos any longer, simply “unshare” them on any of your devices.
As I said, I use it for all my photos, but also for project files I might be working on. As soon as I close a project file, it automatically uploads to the could and my employees in Austin can see them (almost immediately) in their dropbox folder as well.
Dropbox has a free account of up to 2 gigabytes. The optimal photo size for email or web display is 2080 KB’s, thus you can store (free of charge) approximately 961,538 photos. If you need more space than that, you can buy it for a few dollars per month, or you can buy 1TB for 9 bucks per month. I would never in my wildest expectations be able to use 1TB of storage.
So, there is nothing to lose by trying it, other than a little bit of your time.
Here is a folder I did for my Cabo San Lucas trip:
www.dropbox.com/sh/6q8x96ho7akxnja/AACUU4c0SCupvTv6406rmNIxa?dl=0
Here is a single photo:
www.dropbox.com/s/98eshevtdlyjo7y/20170428_113621.jpg?dl=0