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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Old pictures on computer (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Mood-Level@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Is there a way to take all of my old computers and storage devices and merge all of the pictures? I’ve been holding onto old computers for years. If I can’t get the pics off of them, I’m going to toss them.
Thanks!

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[–] Free_Cut_3601@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use a docking station. Sometimes old hard drives won't read on my Windows desktop due to how the hard drive was formatted, so I plug the docking station into an old laptop that I have an Ubuntu operating system on and I can access the pictures that way and move them over to a fresh new USB flash drive. If the drive is operating fine mechanically I will reformat it so that Windows can read it and I install it in a hard drive enclosure to use as an external drive for backups.

[–] Mood-Level@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I wish I knew what you just said.