Digital Camera SD Cards - Habits?

So I leave my pictures on these and get new ones.

I try not to load up my computer since pics use a lot of memory.

I "seemed" to have lost 150 pictures tonight.

Is this a bad habit?

I store my picts on my computer and then backup to a usb harddrive and a web picture host. I should backup to the usb harddrive more.. but I don't...

Yes, IMHO.

You can do much more with these on a computer, and they are less likely to get lost, too. I upload to my computer, back up to a desktop drive, and keep a hard drive of all my photos (updated monthly) in a safe. I end up with 3 copies.

Then again, I've taken almost 13,000 photos, including all the family pics.

Yeah I would not store them on the cards. If you are worried about space on your HD get an external drive and backup to that. Also get archival CD's and create backups on those and get a good case for them.

I'm pushing 50,000 photos in my archives at the moment. But then I've also taken over 3000 in a single weekend shooting an event.

Flash memory is not a super reliable storage medium.

I noticed that my older PS2 memory cards totally erased after sitting for over 6 months.

rebelgtp wrote: ...get archival CD's and create backups on those and get a good case for them.

That's the ticket.

Yes, it's bad.

EDIT: BTW I back up stuff to Truecrypt volumes on external hard drives. In the long run a good hard drive is more reliable than a CD. Use SMART monitoring on any backup drives.

Drive space is stupid cheap these days. I tend to keep data on my 2GB camera card until I have a compelling reason to erase it and start fresh, but I make regular backups to my home PC.

At work, we just keep adding external drives, you can get drives for about a buck a gig these days. I've got 1.35TB of storage on my current work computer plus a 500 GB backup at my house in case the office gets nuked. Older backups I keep on DVD.

All my pictures are stored in hard copy on convenient book shaped devices.

Try scanning the card with this program you may be able to rescue the files. But yeah just having one copy of anything is never a good idea. Burn a CD or DVD backup of the cards if you don't want to fill your hard drive. Then you have 2 copies and you are less likely to loose things.

http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/download.htm?Language=1

I will upload pics to my computer for a few months, organize them into folders that make it easy to find them and back them up to external hard drive & CD. Except for the nudie pix. Those I post directly to the internet.

EastCoastMojo wrote: I will upload pics to my computer for a few months, organize them into folders that make it easy to find them and back them up to external hard drive & CD. Except for the nudie pix. Those I post directly to the internet.

Prove it!

LOL