How/where do you store your digital photos?

After losing our wedding photos (they disappeared from my external hard drive- fortunately our photographer was able to make them available on drop box, even after so many years) I am on a mission to do something with all the other photos I have stored on the PC and various drives. In addition to actually printing them out and putting them in albums, which will take me ages, I want to save them somewhere safe. I thought apple's iCloud would be the answer but as I am uploading old photos (starting with DS's baby photos) they are appearing on my iphone. Which isn't exactly what I want -I have thousands of photos I want to save and don't necessarily need to access them from my phone.

I'm looking into other options and thought I would ask here. How and/or where do you save your photos? Any recommendations?

I save mine on Google photos. You can choose to have the album sync with your phone or not.

Thanks FRWC

DH has a solid state hard drive connected via cable in a fire proof safe in our house. He's in IT specialising in cloud and disaster recovery.

I’ve got a device called ‘The PhotoStick’. It automatically checks for photos files on your computer and removes doubles.

I found photos that I thought were lost. If you have your iCloud photos saved on a backup on your computer, it can find them too.

I have one and my husband has one, so now we have photos in an alternate location for safe keeping!

We have an external hard drive that we plug in every now and the and upload the photos.

This is the first thing i would grab if we need to evacuate

I'm a bit paranoid about losing photos, so I've got my photos backed up on OneDrive, as well as on a dedicated photo storing computer, and again on an external hard drive.

I want to print more of my photos and store it on Google Drive. I just find it so time consuming. I was planning on printing 10 photos a month just so I have hard copies. It is so hard to remember though.

I also have an external hard drive I update periodically.

What I would love is a feature where the best say 20-30 photos per month are compiled into a digital photo album automatically, similar to photo slideshows you get on apple or FB - but not for public viewing. I know I can do it manually but gee it's a pain trawling through hundreds of photos.

I want to print more of my photos and store it on Google Drive. I just find it so time consuming. I was planning on printing 10 photos a month just so I have hard copies. It is so hard to remember though.

I've started putting photos together for albums- it took over a week of dedicated attention just to put together one album of a trip to Japan. It quickly became work and not-much-fun.

I have all on Microsoft, Google and Samsung's cloud services

2 hard drives with copies of all

Plus the computer harddrive

When we get school, Santa pics I also buy the usb or disk if available, then I have that, plus i add them to the above system

I want to print them but the cost......

I have a cloud backup and a couple of hard drive backups (2 different computers).

I really need to do a cull and consolidate actually.

Re: your iphone, can you change a setting so that your photos are in the icloud but dont appear on your phone? Id assume its under icloud settings or the photos app. (Im on android )