Photos - where do you store them - the electronic versions and the paper versions

[crokky]

So...I take loads of photos of my DCs. They are all on the computer - but my computer is a bit old and crappy and I am worried it is going to conk out soon. Where do you store yours? Online somewhere/on DVDs (not keen on having loads of DVDs especially as they are so easily damaged).

Also when you get them developed, where do you put them. Do you do an album for each child?? Should I even get them developed as normal photos - I have seen these photobooks where the photos are printed onto the pages of a book and so you don't have to put them in an album.

Any ideas welcome! (I do have a pile of photos I haven't yet put in an album for anyone and it is so big I can't start!!)

I'll be watching this post....I've been thinking about getting a portable external hard drive for storing music & photo's.

I'll be watching this thread with interest too. DD is nearly 6 and DS is 3, DH has taken literally thousands of photos of both of them, but I have only seen about 5 actual prints in 6 years!

I want to do something about it but I don't know what. The photobook sounds good, am off to google, but would also love to know what other people do. Esepcially those with no time to get the basic household stuff never mind an 'extra' like printing/sorting thousands of photos.

perhaps nobody has got round to sorting photos out yet

my mum said she put some photos in an album for my brother when he was 18 years old (he was the youngest of 4!)

Dh is a photographer - all photos are backed up to DVD and 2nd hard drive - only problem is that we now have several hard drives of photos and finding the exact one is a pain.

we have copies on 2 different computers. and we also have an external hard-drive with copies on as well.

I do photoboook regularly when I get round to it.
The bst thing I cam accross was a company who scanned all my old photos and put them onto a disc for me.It made me go through a whole trunk load of photos and only keep the ones I really wanted.Cost about £80 for 1000 photos.

Everything (photos/video) copied onto an external harddrive which we keep in a fireproof safe. I also use truprint to store and printout photographs. Once printed I do put into albums, but I'm a bit behind, haven't done any since last October.

So how big is a 2nd hard drive (I mean physically - I have no idea what one looks like ). Is it just something that you plug into a USB port?

Also, whooosh, do you think you can get old photos scanned if they are already in albums (just ones that are stuck with photomounts, not covered in plastic)?

When you say you do photobook - what exactly do you mean

The photobooks are from www.photobox.com and the scanning-as long as you take them out of the album (which is what I did with lots of them) then it's fine.