Geez, as many times as I've lead the chorus for backing up photos, today I lost 1600 on my phone.
Ugh!
A typical monthly backup was put off during February, then March, then....
Ok so after accumulating some 12000 on my phone since 014 all were backed up until this year. But my phone internal memory began "beeping".. literally. Room was tight internally but an SD card was barely used.
Swap 'em over, right?
Starting at the most recent I was clicking a little box 200 at a time.
Ugh! Too cumbersome.
Well then I got the notion to just copy and paste the whole folder. Seemed ok. Windows computers just fill in gaps or add to the folder as applicable.
Android? Nope.
What I was unaware of was that Android would over write the old folder I had sent some 1600+ photos to.
There were some 'early' photos that were in the over written folder too. But those were part of an early backup.
Ok so point being if I had stuck to the routine only a few dozen would be gone.
So seriously, if you keep a bunch of your photos on your phone BACK THEM UP OFTEN.
Ugh!
A typical monthly backup was put off during February, then March, then....
Ok so after accumulating some 12000 on my phone since 014 all were backed up until this year. But my phone internal memory began "beeping".. literally. Room was tight internally but an SD card was barely used.
Swap 'em over, right?
Starting at the most recent I was clicking a little box 200 at a time.
Ugh! Too cumbersome.
Well then I got the notion to just copy and paste the whole folder. Seemed ok. Windows computers just fill in gaps or add to the folder as applicable.
Android? Nope.
What I was unaware of was that Android would over write the old folder I had sent some 1600+ photos to.
There were some 'early' photos that were in the over written folder too. But those were part of an early backup.
Ok so point being if I had stuck to the routine only a few dozen would be gone.
So seriously, if you keep a bunch of your photos on your phone BACK THEM UP OFTEN.
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