What can I do now?

[blundaruss]

I am currently in the process of replacing Windows XP on my dads pc with windows 7. Problem is he has a lot of photos and is very un organised! Photos all over the place! So I am sitting here waiting for winmerge to find all photos and see which ones are already backed up and which arent. There are over 40000 photos!

Any suggestions what I could do to pass the time!? I dont want to risk leaving the computer as Ill never get round to the upgrade and ill only have to do this once again when he places more photos all over the place!

Drives me crazy!

 

[MooMoo444]

40,000 photos? He's got a lot of material

 

[blundaruss]

LOL, if it was "material" I wouldnt be asking what I can do now!

 

[EGuitarStar]

Nice collection. Much more than most of here on OCUK.

Stare hard at the screen, that way the computer wont get lazy.

 

[Diddums]

Go outside.

 

[blundaruss]

Nothing but sheep and rain outside!

I think the computer is getting self conscious or something because I swear it goes slower when I stare at it!

its probably half 40000 as a lot are probably dupes

 

[Glaucus]

Get him to sign up to amazon prime and back them up for him. This will take even longer so you'll need to find more to do.

 

[MadMouse101]

40,000

 

[blundaruss]

no chance of getting him to understand amazon prime! I might setup a regular backup job for him so I dont have to do this again! any recommendations on what program I can use to a scheduled update of updated photos?

 

[Nix]

40,000 he's taken or 40,000 images of cats he's saved off imgur?

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Crashplan is free for personal use and unlimited. Backup to a USB drive is free.

A few £ per month for automated cloud backup.

 

[MooMoo444]

40,000 he's taken or 40,000 images of cats he's saved off imgur?

If he's anything like my dad then 10,000 will be "funny" minions pictures with generic quotes from facebook.

 

[Nix]

If he's anything like my dad then 10,000 will be "funny" minions pictures with generic quotes from facebook.

Yeah, in which case a format is probably for the best.

 

[blundaruss]

probably closer to 20000/30000 a majority are probably dupes!

I think he has his camera surgically grafted to him! Plus hes an old man! so many years worth of photos!

 

[Cosimo]

Nothing but sheep and rain outside!

Get a pack of cards and play patience.

 

[boxman2000]

Backblaze is pretty good, something like $50 a year and runs quietly in the background.

 

[blundaruss]

Get a pack of cards and play patience.

Or I could play patience on his computer!

 

[PooKer]

If you are doing a clean install of win 7 (it'll be recommended). Throw in a new hard drive (SSD maybe), install it on that. Then set the 2nd drive as a store moving things like pictures folder to the top level or something. Then go about backing it up to either a cloud or external or something. depends how important the data is.

 

[blundaruss]

on second thoughts he tends to turn off his external hard drive so not sure a scheduled backup would work

 

[blundaruss]

@ PooKer - I like your thinking but its difficult to get my dad to buy anything unless he thinks its necessary! :\