I heard cd's only last 2 to 5 years. What is the best way to store digital pictures.?
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On a portable hard drive. Depending on how much storage you need, and to what degree of portability, price can range from $150- $800. Generally, its $1/1GB, for the bulky, archive design, and about $3/GB for the on-the-go, always using, light design. Maxtor makes great ones.
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load cd in drive,\nif it doesn't open automatically \ndouble click my  computer\ndouble click icon for cd drive\nfind icons for pictures. \nhold cntl key and select all pictures you wish to copy \nright click on one icon and select copy from menu\nclose drive \ngo to folder where you want to file pictures \npaste. \n\n\nor\ndouble click drive icon\ndouble click picture or picture icon \npicture should open into paint or other photo application\nselect file - save as \nand save it to the folder you wish. \nDo this with each picture
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I archive mine by burning them to DVD from time to time.  I make backups of all my important data.  (not as often as I should, but I still do it)\n\nYou can get DVD burners really cheap these days.  Check out http://www.pricewatch.com if you want to see how much it is to buy one.  I usually get them for around $46 for a good brand name one.  (Sony, LG, LiteOn)
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Yes.  For personal temporary storage, USB thumb drives are the best options, as they're more portable, and the capacities range from 32MB up to 2GB (and growing.)   For troubleshooting PCs, bootable CDROMs, followed by bootable thumb drives, are the best current replacements.
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Flash Memory Thumb Drives and USB External Hard drives.  That's where it's at today.   Double Layer DVDs are cool, but don't come close to Flash and hard drives for quick access, transportability and awesome backups.\n\nGood luck and Happy Computing!
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Actually this is turning into a real mess. It turns out two or three years minimum and six to eight max is the life expectency of DVD's. Now they are saying if you want a stable long lasting backup you should use tape. Go figure, there are going to be a lot of people losing their pictures & data in a few years. Pressed DVD's last longer it is the "burned" ones that fail early. (Like the ones you make in your computer).\n\nI think all this publicity may encourage development of more stable CD's and DVD's.\n\nI have not read anything on life of the blu-ray. That might be better.
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I've tried saving disk space by resizing photos but that's usually a permanent change.  If you want to print them, the quality suffers.\n\nIf you don't already have a built-in CD burner, it might be a good investment to get one and store your photos on CD.  Each CD holds slightly less than 700MB.  An average photo is right around 1MB so you can save almost 700 photos per CD, in original size. Then you can completely erase them from your hard drive.\n\nJust something to consider.
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The one thing you need to check in is a data CD-R, or DATA DVD-R. DVD-R will give you better buring options and increase the clarity of your pictures once transfered from your computer to a cd. Also another good source of storing media (any type) would be an external drive or flash drive. A flash drive is compact, light weight, and easy to use. Check your local wal-mart to find and of these items.
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Digital Video Disk or Digital Versatile Disc
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If you can scan them and put them on your drive you can always put them on a DVD.You will need a DVD writer for that purpose. Or if you want to have better and faster results you can go to KODAK and have it done and pay for it.
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save the images to your computer by clicking the right mouse button then save as. then on your computer find the files, right click and click send to D:. Then insert a CD and write the files to it.
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delete stuff you dont use. goto the control panel then add/remove programs and delete what you dont use. also try backing up pics and music on a dvd disc. also you can get another hard drive(turn it into a slave drive). goto newegg.com you can get a 200gb hdd for $100 or so
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Avg life of CD could be about many years, if they are stored. But if they are constantly being used...it will slowly start wearing out (mostly because of the scratches cuased by dust particles, esp in the CD Drive).. but even then it will easly last few years.
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Just this past winter. Mine was having major problems due to a virus (tried everything to clean it off but it was still acting funny) so I moved all my important docs and pics to my husbands computer. Then I redid my computer and  moved them back. Was still acting funny so I decided to reformat both my c and d drive. Moved everything over but I forgot to move my pictures the second time. Lost all the pictures of my kids when they were young, pictures from trips we took, lots of pictures. \n\nMy husband died this summer and I only have what was printed out. I kept meaning to back them up on DVD.  Backup anything important....do it at least every few months.
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Since you no longer have a PC the least expensive way would be to take it to a shop and have them burn the files you need on CD's.  If you had or possibly have access to another PC the procedure is pretty straight forward.  Connect this drive as a slave drive.
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Well, without a cd burner you are not going able to get anything onto a cd. So... lets go the next best route. Get a usb hard drive, and put everything on that and then you can keep it on that or dump it onto the new computer. But without a cd burner, you cant get anything onto a cd.\n\n-------\nA usb hard drive will cost you around anywhere to 60 to 100 bucks, now depending on how large your photos are you might be able to get them onto like a flash drive then can get up to 2 gigs and a lil higher but still run you around at least 40 bucks and up.\n\ngood luck
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It really depends on how much data you're talking about. For small amounts of data, you can get one of the USB hard drives or burn your data to a CD (700 megs) or DVD (up to about 4 gigs). If it's not much more than 4 gigs, you can just use a couple of DVDS.\n\nFor larger amounts, chase down an external hard disk. I have 600 gigs for my external drives which has my mp3's, pictures, and other data I want to save.