Avoid the Loss of Digital Photos

Posted: June 26, 2015

[caption id="attachment_12357" align="alignright" width="373"] Image from: digital-photography-school.com[/caption] Photos are a great way to capture a memory for years. However, the chance of something going wrong is always lurking, and the risk of losing your digital photos is real. There is hope if disaster strikes, and you can avoid digital photos being lost. Alexey Gubin, writer for Digital Photography School, shares how to avoid digital photography loss.

How to Avoid Loss of Your Digital Photos

Nowadays almost all photos are taken using various digital devices. In the era of paper photos, the main photo destructors were natural disasters like fires, and also such a phenomenon as discolouration. Modern digital photos face mainly the same dangers – fires, floods, and so on. Surprisingly, digital photos also have some equivalent to discoloration – degradation of a photo storage device over time. However, apart from these dangers inherited from paper predecessors, digital photos are subject to new specific dangers, for example: loss of photos due to a storage device failure. Let’s discuss in more detail what dangers digital photos might face and how you can avoid many of them. Generally speaking, there are three bottlenecks where you can lose photos – when taking photos, when transferring them, and in storage. #1 Loss of photos in camera Immediately after you have taken a photo there is only a single copy of it. If this copy is lost, you can in no way get it back. In all fairness, such cases are relatively rare. Even if data recovery software doesn’t help, as a last resort you can send a memory card to a repair lab in the hope that the hardware specialists can help. However, if it fails, all you have left to do is to say “goodbye” to the photos because there was only a single copy of them. Read the entire article How to Avoid Loss of Your Digital Photos on Digital Photography School.