Just a quick one…
I has taken me 3 days (and still counting) to upload all my Helsinki photos to Microsoft Onedrive and also to Dropbox.
Why am I doing both?
Onedrive is best for my PC and Surface.
Dropbox is for sharing the link with my family.
But…
Onedrive is rubbish with its uploading and it took over 24 hours to initially upload.
Then when it was done, I very cleverly moved the file to Dropbox. Yes, you read that right. Moved, instead of Copied.
So I was left with no Helsinki photos in Onedrive!
Then I looked at my Dropbox, and it had created a PC folder with all the photos and videos, but not uploaded to the server. So the links I had smugly sent to the family contained 4 photos instead of 619!
That was yesterday. When I tried to upload them all together, it told me it would take 7 days. 7 DAYS!!!
I now am sat here manually uploading each file… 38 videos to go…
At least I managed to get the Onedrive ones sorted.
But OMG! How frustrating!
And I bet there is an easier way to do all this, but I am so not tech-savvy that I won’t have thought of it!
Sacha Black
Jun 06, 2016 @ 08:08:52
Omg so frustrating 😢 hope some tech wiz comes up with a solution for u
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Ritu
Jun 06, 2016 @ 08:18:21
Only took over 3 days but done now!
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amommasview
Jun 06, 2016 @ 07:16:42
Looks like you’ll be busy for a while 😉
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Ritu
Jun 06, 2016 @ 07:47:50
Finally after 3 days they are done!!!
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amommasview
Jun 06, 2016 @ 12:33:09
Oh my…
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Ritu
Jun 06, 2016 @ 14:42:11
Yup!
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pranabaxom
Jun 06, 2016 @ 05:30:13
That’s why I keep all my memories in my heart.😊
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Ritu
Jun 06, 2016 @ 06:53:23
Good call!!
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Geetha B
Jun 06, 2016 @ 04:23:25
I actually stopped uploading on one drive myself but use the windows sync feature on my PC to have it happen on its own. It probably takes a while but I don’t have to sit and watch it happen
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Ritu
Jun 06, 2016 @ 06:53:12
I think there is no real painless solution!!!
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Geetha B
Jun 06, 2016 @ 12:07:34
Seems so unfortunately. Am sure they will soon come up with solutions of flash copying huge amounts of data
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Ritu
Jun 06, 2016 @ 12:25:20
I hope so Geetha!
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Jim
Jun 05, 2016 @ 23:34:04
I use SmugMug.
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Ritu
Jun 06, 2016 @ 06:50:46
Never heard of that one! I’ll have to check it out!
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🎑 'M.' 🎑
Jun 05, 2016 @ 22:48:07
ain’t nobody got time for that… lol
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Ritu
Jun 05, 2016 @ 23:01:15
Wasn’t she the funniest!!!!
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🎑 'M.' 🎑
Jun 05, 2016 @ 23:17:56
rofl
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Ritu
Jun 05, 2016 @ 23:29:14
I watched the videos on YouTube endlessly!!!
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🎑 'M.' 🎑
Jun 06, 2016 @ 01:09:01
I still have a lot of auto tune videos to catch up on, haha 😁😁😁
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Ritu
Jun 06, 2016 @ 06:51:50
😄😄😄
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busy lady
Jun 05, 2016 @ 22:30:12
How frustrating!
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Ritu
Jun 05, 2016 @ 23:00:54
Tell me about it!!!
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busy lady
Jun 05, 2016 @ 23:10:00
Like you said–“But I smile anyway” 🙂
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Ritu
Jun 05, 2016 @ 23:13:08
That’s the best coping mechanism! Well. It works for me!!! 😀
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busy lady
Jun 05, 2016 @ 23:14:06
Me too!
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incahootswithmuddyboots
Jun 05, 2016 @ 21:38:31
I use a card reader to upload photos onto my iPad and Mac. Often hundreds at a time and it takes just a few minutes. Then I back it all up in the cloud and on a external drive. We abandoned Microsoft completely a few years ago because of frustrating experiences. Apple’s not perfect either, but faster for sure! Hope you get it all sorted out! Glad you had such a wonderful trip and have so many photos to remember it! 😀
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Ritu
Jun 05, 2016 @ 21:47:41
You know it didn’t take long to put them On the pc… its the cloud that’s taking ages! !!!
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incahootswithmuddyboots
Jun 05, 2016 @ 23:18:22
Ah! I guess I misunderstood! I love my Apple Cloud, backs up every night as long as I plug the device in. I learned about backing up photos regularly when my entire photo file disappeared one day! 😬
Have a great week Ritu!
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Ritu
Jun 05, 2016 @ 23:29:31
Thank you! You too!!!
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Robert Matthew Goldstein
Jun 05, 2016 @ 21:17:59
Time is money…The price of a two gigabyte usb drive is about 50 dollars at office max or best by. I back up my images and videos to two external drives. It’s easy and if my connection ever goes down I will still have access to my data.
And Flickr is great for photo-sharing…you can open a free account through Yahoo.
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Ritu
Jun 05, 2016 @ 21:27:35
Some more great ideas! Thanks Rob!
I have an external hard drive… why didn’t I think of that! !!!
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Robert Matthew Goldstein
Jun 05, 2016 @ 21:47:00
i’m glad the idea works for you. i like keeping my data local.
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Ritu
Jun 05, 2016 @ 21:47:58
Good thought!
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Tony Burgess
Jun 05, 2016 @ 20:44:15
Do you need a snack after all that? Are you uploading them from a camera or a phone? Anyway, I feel your frustration.
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Ritu
Jun 05, 2016 @ 20:45:23
The camera and phone uploads to my pc are done… they were painless.
It’s the uploads to the cloud storage that is draining my will to live!!!!!
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Tony Burgess
Jun 05, 2016 @ 20:49:17
Have you thought about a Google solution. I am pretty much entirely a Google person when it comes to my computing life. Give it a try.
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Ritu
Jun 05, 2016 @ 21:02:43
I may just look into that !!! Thanks Tony!!!
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freyathewriter
Jun 05, 2016 @ 20:39:59
I’m so glad it’s not just me that does things like this. It seems like I am so behind many people of my age (I’m not young, but I don’t consider myself old either, it’s just ME!).
Anyway, I’m sorry you’ve had so much trouble – but it sounds like you took loads of great photos. I’m so pleased you had such a fantastic celebration!
Good luck with it all 🙂
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Ritu
Jun 05, 2016 @ 20:41:48
Thank you Freya! I’m glad I’m not alone lol!!! Yes there are so many photos. .. and my brother and sis in law have more too!!! My head is already spinning!!!
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freyathewriter
Jun 05, 2016 @ 20:42:26
Mine’s spinning in sympathy!
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Ritu
Jun 05, 2016 @ 20:43:31
Lol! No I WILL be tough. .. I WILL do it! !!!
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Erika Kind
Jun 05, 2016 @ 20:39:43
I got dizzy reading this, Sis, and a slight stress pain in my stomach occurred too!
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Ritu
Jun 05, 2016 @ 20:40:33
Imagine how I’m feeling! !!!! Lol! !
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Erika Kind
Jun 05, 2016 @ 20:41:11
My poor sis! 😘😘
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Ritu
Jun 05, 2016 @ 20:42:07
Thank you ! Xxx
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Erika Kind
Jun 05, 2016 @ 20:46:31
I hug you in 5 days and a few hours… 💖
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Ritu
Jun 05, 2016 @ 21:01:18
And counting sis! !!!! 😚
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Erika Kind
Jun 06, 2016 @ 06:42:12
Yeah, yeah, yeah….. and counting!!!!! 😘 Good morning, Sis 😊
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Ritu
Jun 06, 2016 @ 06:54:15
Good morning my dear sis! Back to school today! Have a good day at work! 😊
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Erika Kind
Jun 06, 2016 @ 07:21:11
Thank you, you too, Sis!!! 😃
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