I had a drive fail last night with 2TB of photos on it.

Thankfully, it is cloned by 2 other drives, one internal and one external.

I also keep an external drive at work that I backup my whole system onto every 6 months. Just in case my house burns down, I won't lose my files.

Other options are a cloud drive, or other online storage site.

At any rate, if you aren't backing up your photos, PLEASE do so. You can never take that picture again.

Jeremy

Jeremy, this is a great point. I have my external drive backed up to another clone drive and since media really is that cheap, I keep the original versions on the original cards as well. They are easy to transport anywhere I want them.

But then I do not drink, except once in a great while, or smoke, at all, so I can justify it as....well, if I smoked, that SD card, would be a carton of cigarettes that I would have had nothing left of, and now I do. For the price of a carton of Marlboros I can get SD cards.

My iMac hard drive has gone dysfunctional. I'll be finding our shortly if the Mac Time Capsule backup works or not. Hate to think I may have lost all my photo files.

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Originally posted by Wink:
My iMac hard drive has gone dysfunctional. I'll be finding our shortly if the Mac Time Capsule backup works or not. Hate to think I may have lost all my photo files.

Save the old drive since you may be able to retrieve some of the files from it. Once you have installed the new drive and software, borrow a SATA USB docking station, connect it to the Mac, and plug the old drive to it. The Mac will show the old drive, at which point you can retrieve the files manually.

But then, if you have used Time Capsule, the photos will be saved to another drive. This app works quite well.