Kelly, I have been thinking of unloading all the photos as you noted. I guess I have put it off, thinking it is nice to have photos to show off of my kids, but I guess I should admit that I just don't do that like my sighted friends do. I think I have also liked knowing my photos are being backed up in somewhere other than a piece of hardware, such as my laptop and external hard drive.
Maybe I'll go ahead and set my husband up with drop box and see how it works for him. Can I log into two different Drop box accounts on my laptop -- to my own and to his? Or do I have to figure out how to have him set up a folder to share with me. Believe me, I was really frustrated when he elected to go against Apple. It still causes resentment because he'll ask me to troubleshoot issues with his phone and it could have all been so much easier if I could just pick up his phone, turn on VoiceOver and do what needs to be done. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kelly Pierce Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2017 4:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: questions on cloud storage Why not just offload your photos to your computer and forget about paying someone to store them in the cloud? As the children grow older, you will run out of space on your device itself. Regarding your husband, he has to decide what tech ecosystem he wishes to join. He obviously rejected Apple when he bought an Android phone while you already had an iPhone. Realize that non-Apple service will compress the photos and videos to make the file size smaller. Have you tried the joint drop box account idea with the free account with both of your phones to see how it would work? Kelly On 12/10/17, R Van Lant <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I am hoping one of you won't mind covering the basics on my questions about > cloud storage. > > First, I currently have an upgraded iCloud storage account, as I ran out of > space on the free plan. I was looking at the settings today to see how much > space I'm using and see that I have primarily my photos being backed up. I > turned on backup for contacts, just in case. I'm curious about all the > other apps listed that I could be backing up to iCloud. Many of those apps > don't strike me as ones that would have data I'd be worried about losing. > Is there a reason I might want to be backing things up? The only other ones > I think would be good to maybe turn on is Voice Dream Reader. Kindle and > Audible already synch to the amazon cloud. > > Second, I have the basic Dropbox account, as this seemed like the easiest > way to move files from my Windows PC to my phone, particularly into Voice > Dream Reader. I currently have it also backing up my photos, thinking it > would be easier to pull photos I wanted to my computer from this. (No, I > have not figured out putting an iCloud drive on my Windows PC; maybe this > would be as easy as Dropbox for photos and I could then save dropbox space > by not having camera roll on it.) If you use Drop box, do you also use > iCloud? Any best practices on when to use which one? > > Third and probably most pressing, My husband is on an Android phone. He > takes photos and videos of our kids on his phone, that are too large to send > via email or text to me. He's very new to a smart phone and does not have > cloud storage going, to my knowledge. What direction should we go to allow > me to access his videos and such? I'm thinking dropbox would be > straightforward, but since I have the upgraded iCloud plan already, is that > an option? Maybe I should downgrade my iCloud storage and upgrade the > Dropbox so we can share an account. Anyone in a similar situation and could > give best practices? I'm the more technical of the two of us, but my > husband is sighted and I don't know how to set up his phone, so I need to be > very specific up front on the recommendation so I can be sure to have access > to these videos. > > All ideas and input welcome. > > Robin > > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > [email protected]. 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