@mariah_mpls: Answering all the questions & comments I got on my last video about my flash drive workflow! Hopefully this helps clarify some things & ultimately sparks some ideas for how you create your own approach to archiving photos & home videos. 🫶🫶 My hard drive: https://link.amazon/B057IuJtG My flash drive: https://link.amazon/B01R3gkDU
Hang on… the hard drives last for ten years and then what?
2026-09-14 17:51:15
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Kristen Wyman :
Print Print Print!!! I make high quality photo albums every year of those best/most important photos
2026-09-15 14:20:22
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Eden :
THANK YOU FOR THIS I’ve been waiting for someone to address this issue like we are all just sitting here with extreme amounts of photos and no plan 😭 next question would be how do you filter through your photos? Like I take pictures of grocery lists, things at the store, the sky, that I don’t want to keep but end up as digital clutter and gives me anxiety thinking about how much time it would take to go through it all
2026-09-14 18:51:54
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SoundsFake_ButOkay :
Google photo storage now counts against your drive storage. ive has to offload my photos from there
2026-09-14 17:41:12
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DeniseBranum :
Once it’s on the flash drive, you delete it off the phone? Then the only was to see the photo is to go to the flash drive? As a gen xer I love having my photos on my IPhone.
2026-09-14 18:44:52
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Kate.Bagley :
But if you delete your camera roll, they’ll be gone on your cloud backups
2026-09-14 18:14:15
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KW2vintage💫 :
I’m planning on winning the lottery and my first thing I will do is print all my pictures
2026-09-14 19:24:10
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sophie 🩰🍒 :
This literally keeps me up at night.
2026-09-15 01:13:04
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Brooke💜✨🌛 :
I've already had a hard drive fail. $100 large storage hard drive. I lost everything. All my digital art from college. A complete download of a computer with my first born's everything. I was devastated.
2026-09-14 21:01:17
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Calder Clark :
My system is the same! uptight sisters unite. May I add an additional layer? when my first child was born 17 years ago, I bought 20 years’ worth of black leather photo albums from Target. Every quarter I take the past quarter’s worth of photos that are “framers”, upload to mpix, print and shingle into the year’s album. takes me no time, fun to flip thru with the kids.
2026-09-14 18:29:02
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DrDogMom :
When we were married 40 years ago, VHS was the cool new thing. But over the years, we updated the VHS to CD, and now to digital.
If pix/videos are important, you need to keep up with them. 😁
2026-09-14 18:51:52
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HilSVb⁷ :
I do the exact same thing except I update my external hard drive storage every 5 years. My experience over the past 20 yrs as a photographer and mom is anything past 5 yrs gets iffy. I don’t risk it.
2026-09-14 19:50:47
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ravenmc123 :
thank you for the motivation to finally do this. I'm literally having this problem right now and I don't wanna pay for the storage anymore. my kids are so little and the extra storage just fills so fast with them.
2026-09-14 23:01:06
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KaraT :
Why is this seemingly simple thing so confusing?!?
2026-09-15 00:10:47
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AL a 1st time SAHM :
And then you deleted off your iPhone, correct
2026-09-14 17:34:34
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k :
How much storage does your flash drive have?
2026-09-14 16:44:23
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Air Greenwood :
I used to do this and needed this reminder
2026-09-14 16:25:53
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butteryem :
you’re doing gods work i’ve been watching all your videos for days and you keep coming on my fyp! thank u for sharing
2026-09-14 16:54:23
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Cherry Lou :
I bought the flash drive because of you
2026-09-24 21:58:57
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redroverriley :
But if you transfer them entirely to a USB, you won’t know when they were taken, date and year for example
2026-09-17 11:20:27
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Rocio | Lifestyle vlogs :
Girl I’ve been saving my pics for over 10yrs and I don’t develop the pictures so now my hard drive is a big mess 😩
2026-09-17 03:41:31
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Aarion :
Usb can stop working so easily 😭
2026-09-17 14:30:11
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Chu :
So when you run out of storage and put them all on a flash drive, do you delete all the photos off your phone?
2026-09-14 20:25:22
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The_world_of_rabs :
I print it all I now have storage bins of photos my nieces and nephews rummage through the bins every time they come over
2026-09-15 12:05:38
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Erin :
How do you transfer from iPhone to a usb drive? Do you use some sort of device?
2026-09-15 22:48:06
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