11/15/2021
This post contains VERY Important Wedding Photo Flash Drive Information
This is a courtesy PSA to any of my wedding clients from years past: if you haven’t backed up your wedding photos - please DO IT NOW.
(If you are seeing this and are not a wedding client but still have a flash drive from me, this applies to you as well.)
I recently was contacted by a wedding client from over ten years ago who was unable to get their flash drive to load their wedding images. I am taking this opportunity to deliver a VERY IMPORTANT reminder / request for all of you whose weddings I have photographed over the years.
The Digital File Informational PDF on your wedding flash drive specified at the very beginning:
"Your files have been delivered to you via temporary storage media. While disks and portable USB drives are often considered safe long-term storage solutions, I ask that you regard your disk or drive as a temporary solution and back the images up right away to your own computer hard drive or an external drive. I do not guarantee the longevity of any digital storage media and because technology changes rapidly and disks can become damaged and corrupted over time and with use, it is imperative that you back up the images as soon as possible in at least one location separate from the original disk/drive."
Flash drives are never, ever, ever meant to be permanent storage. They will eventually fail / go corrupt / stop working. (Same for those of you who still only have your wedding photos on a disk or set of disks.)
I am asking you to please back them up immediately so you have multiple copies on multiple external hard drives.
Not just one computer.
And don’t forget at least one copy in the cloud (Dropbox, google drive, etc.)