

More specifically: Here’s how I backup photos, videos, and organize them each month. Though I’m always interested in how other people do it, I’ve also had some friends and colleagues ask what my process is. Sure, our mobile operating systems do a good job of backing up and sorting things for us but I still like to have multiple backups of everything so at the end of each month, I still export everything from my phone and go through a process of backing everything up.

That’s a story for another time, but it was the catalyst for regularly backing up my photos and videos in several formats and in several locations.Īnd though the process by which I do this has changed over the years, I still take the time to do it so much so that I now have 17 years worth of photos and videos organized my year, month, day, hour, minute, and second.Īnd all are taken from various digital cameras through every iteration of a cell phone I’ve owned. Unfortunately, I lost all digital media prior to 2003. And as a teenager, who cares when something was taken? Then, I had to reset it or just roll with inaccurate timestamps. One of the things that I’ve done since high school (at least that’s when I think I started) is consistently backup photos and videos.īack then, I wasn’t taking as many photos – I was younger, digital cameras still saved things to flash cards, and the EXIF data would be inaccurate if the battery ever completely died.
