If a DVD disc is
damaged, you lose almost 5 gigabytes (GB) of images. If a CD disc goes bad,
you lose only 700 megabytes (MB) of images.
Archive Images
After you??™ve created contact sheets and copied the image folders you want
to archive to different folders, you??™re ready to archive the files to a CD.
Windows and Macintosh operating systems both have built-in CD burning
applications. Alternatively, you can purchase a third-party application, such
as Nero (Windows) or Toast (Macintosh).
Back Up Image Files to an External Hard Drive
If you use your computer a lot, your hard drive takes a beating. Every time
you launch a program or open a file, your computer??™s faithful servant, the
hard drive, spins, locates, and serves up the required information. Like any
mechanical device, a hard drive is subject to failure, and they will fail when
you least expect them to. If you??™re fortunate, you may be able to recover
the data from the crashed hard drive. Rather than suffer the loss of your
image gallery when a hard drive crashes, you can be proactive and back
up your files to an external hard drive. You can purchase an external 80-GB
hard drive for as little as $150 at your local computer retail outlet, which
is cheap insurance compared to the loss of your prized digital images.
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