Do you want to receive photos via email?
Do you want me to post to a site?
The problem, as I see it, is that we have to password protect a photo site and no one ever uses such sites because they don't remember the password.
Kirsten's idea:
Kirsten sent an example of one place you can do it that is very secure. Only those we send a link to can access the photos and we have to enter their email addresses and we can also select to let only those we share the link with (the siblings and me) to contribute photos. It is called picasaweb.
I did download some of the photos on the site Kirsten recommended. Go and see what you think.
Kirsten wrote: I still think we can upload a majority of photos using a secure site. We could leave those with ams and Julie's kids off. Most of the photos I think the majority of us want are the younger years of our family and genealogy type photos. What does everyone else think?
Melanie wrote: For the same reason that others can only receive a few photo emails. There is a quota and a size for each file, to protect the user from receiving junk mail or viruses. The one system that we use with Braden is photobucket. You can invite only family if you want and anyone can upload photos or download photos, as long as they have access to the site. Melanie
Myrna wrote: Thanks. Who is going to decide what we do? Kirsten also had an idea. Why don't you work it out together and let me know.
AnnMarie: I know that you are trying to stay out of the latest family "discussion" though I have tossed your name about. However, I would like to know your thoughts on the photos and putting them on a site vs emailing them. I suppose you want this kept private between us. But I value your knowledge and would like to know what you think about the safety of sites. I suppose that the only safe way is to save them to CDs but Dad thinks that takes too much time and he may be right. It is not a question of expense. But there are a lot of photos and it takes hours to scan them--about 15 minutes per scan. Then, on top of that, it take five minutes to burn a CD. I have to stay with it because, one out of 10 or so, will not burn properly. Is there a safe way to post them to a site which takes about 5 minutes per photo (as opposed to the 5 minutes per CD burn times 10)? Is there a safe site? Kirsten and Todd think all the sites can be protected. Eric likes either CDs or email. David likes a site or CDs. Julie does not like sites. Kimberly has also stayed silent. Melanie thinks that a site would be a solution though she has lots of capacity on her computer. What do YOU think? You work with sickos and have training in ways to protect yourself and, therefore, I value your opinion.
Talk over all your ideas with AnnMarie and Julie. They both have concerns with sites. I didn't used to but, last week, I typed my name into google because I was looking for an article I had written a number of years ago. I found it, no surprise. I also found, on public access, three e-mails I had sent to others from my sisna account way back then. They were word for word--my reply to one and the email they had sent me--and I started to think that once something is on the web it is on the web. I don't know if I am just worried of ghosts and goblins but it did make me think.
Of course, that being said, I have sent the photos via email.
AnnMarie wrote: I like the pictures. I don't care how they are delivered. If you do it on a site, don't include names of my kids.
Shawn wrote: I have appreciated receiving the CD’s in the past, but that is more costly for you. Online takes time to download, especially if you can’t do a whole folder at a time, and I don’t spend an a lot of time on computers once I leave work. Also, it seemed some of the sites charged you annually. Email might overwhelm size limits sometimes. I wonder if a server or a computer with remote access turned on would be a good way to do it, of course we would want a password again.
Melanie wrote: There were so many emails to read, I thought I would start at the bottom (the newest comes first) and read to the top. I responded before I had read all 52 emails. I like the photobucket idea and I also like Kirsten's idea.
With a family as large as ours, there will be different needs for different folks. Many of us go to Utah yearly. You said that the cds were costing time and money and not everyone wanted them. Therefore, send out a mass email and tell people what photos you are copying and ask them how they want them stored/sent.When they want a cd, have them supply the cds and then give them the option of paying for postage or picking up the cd when they see you. Or let them know that you have them stored on your hard drive and are willing to send out the photos that day.
I like Kirsten, have downloaded most of the photos to my "Trauntvein Family Photo History" storage folder, but not everyone has the capacity to store that amount of files, especially if they have children who use the computer and store their files.
There is a solution. It can be worked out. We just need to not overthink it. Some sites are very protected, but all forts have holes and eventually someone can get through and find pictures. They can even take them off of school websites and out of yearbooks, which can be scanned. Not even emails are safe anymore. I know mine has been hacked before (as was my credit card and checking account).
I know the family is not saying they don't appreciate your work, they just have a limit to the size of files and the capacity on their computers for the files sent. Mel
Myrna wrote: Meanwhile, back at the ranch. It is not the cost. A few CDs will not put me in the poorhouse today or tomorrow. I don't need money. I need time.
Make a decision, after talking to Ams and Juls, then let me know.
Kirsten wrote: I'd say go with whichever one offers most free storage. Either way, we'll have to do what Todd suggested and leave them up for a certain amount of time, then give everyone notice before we have to delete and upload the next set. We're talking hundreds of pics though.
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