Two of everything from Ireland
Look at a computer holding the same photographs twice over, work out on your own which set is the one worth keeping, and put a spare copy of them somewhere that is not the computer.
This course has been about where your things actually are — on a shelf in a large dull building beside a highway, on the machine in front of you, or in several places at once in versions that are not the same as each other.
Here is a computer with one vacation on it twice, no room left, and a memory stick plugged in for the first time in years. Telling the two sets apart is the whole of it, and nothing on the screen will say which is which.
Key points
- Tell an original photograph from the small copy that came back round a group.
- Clear out duplicates without a moment’s worry about the good ones going with them.
- Make a spare copy that lives on something other than the computer — which is the only sort of copy a backup is made of.
What to remember
- Anything sent round a group or a message arrives shrunk, because being small is what makes it quick to send. The copy that comes back to you is never the copy to keep. And a folder that keeps itself in step with the cloud is one file shown in two windows: delete it in one and it goes in both, faithfully, within seconds. A spare is a second copy, on a second thing, that does not change when the first one does — a memory stick from a drawer counts, and so does a hard drive on a shelf. Both cost less than one photograph on them is worth.
- Honestly — how was that?
Try this
Look in the Downloads folder on your own computer for anything beginning IMG- with a long number after it. Those are almost always shrunken copies of pictures you already have, sent back to you by somebody else.
Practice: Two of everything from Ireland. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.