>>>Hi,
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>>>Over many years I meticulously collect all photos that my wife and I took during vacations, holidays, family events, etc. I store all these photos on my computer. Of course I backup the drive. But for now only I have access to these photos. And since my doctor told me a shocking news that I will not live forever, I want to copy/place these files in the cloud.
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>>More shocking news: clouds suffer from blue sky. IOW, we don't live forever, and neither does the cloud. But assume that the cloud will survive the years you expect it to.
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>>>The purpose is so that the kids can see them, any time they want to (the kids are adults and don't live at home).
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>>But they do! They call those places home, you can imagine.
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>>> Even now, we just came back from a Euro vacation and I copied tons of photos from my iPhone to my computer. But why not let kids see them now, if they want to.
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>>>So I want to create/establish a folder in the cloud for the entire family so that they would be able to log in and see whatever they want to see. Then I will stop worrying about how to transfer the files to them in about 100 years, when I am gone.
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>>As my mother-in-law used to say, "may I repeat this toast on your 100th birthday".
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>>>I thought about dropbox but it seems to be expensive. About $100 a year for the size I would need. Right now my "pictures" folder has about 60 GB of files.
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>>>What other options would you suggest? I don't mind paying, reasonably. And I would like some security so that our personal life does not become a target of some creep.
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>>I use dropbox for such purposes, just... not all 147 GiB (157.000 files), just select photos. And then when the freebie space gets near full, I announce the intent to delete, and they simply copy the shared folder somewhere else, so it won't be deleted when I delete from dropbox. Of course, our daughters are tech-savvy (two programmers, one digital artist) but, really, I expect your offspring to be anything but technically illiterate. I know the filesystem is not intuitive at all, and all the attempts to make it simpler only made it worse, but still. How hard can it be?
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>First, thank you for your input. Second, my daughters are tech-savvy to the extent of any young person today in America. But they are not in the tech field.
>I am still considering dropbox. I do have a paid dropbox that I use for my personal needs (mainly so that I can get some files from PC to iPad). I pay about $100 per year but I don't remember how much space it gives me. As I said, currently my photos occupy about 60 GB and will grow. So, say, I need 100 GB for family pictures, I don't know if I can place all my photos in the dropbox. And I have no problem giving my kids the dropbox email and password. By concern is if, for any reasons, I stop paying for the dropbox, the photos will be lost. So I will need to arrange a way for them to pick up the tab, if I am not able to pay (physically, not financially).
>Therefore, unless someone suggests a "better" approach, I will go with dropbox.

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