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Thread ID: 123285 2012-02-15 21:04:00 MS Livedrive or Google+ 1101 (13337) PC World Chat
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1259310 2012-02-17 07:22:00 I just looked. We have just under 100gb of photos...

If you upload them to SkyDrive via Windows Live Photo Gallery (at least) it shrinks them during the upload.
pcuser42 (130)
1259311 2012-02-19 10:45:00 Shrinks pictures. Hmm.
So, the Windows solution is ideal for things you want to store but never retrieve? ;) A bit like MSback-up.:yuck:
R2x1 (4628)
1259312 2012-02-19 20:25:00 Shrinks pictures. Hmm.
So, the Windows solution is ideal for things you want to store but never retrieve? ;) A bit like MSback-up.:yuck:

Let me rephrase that: If you upload them to SkyDrive via Windows Live Photo Gallery (at least) it can shrink (but doesn't have to) them during the upload.
pcuser42 (130)
1259313 2012-02-19 22:21:00 "but (it) doesn't have to".
Fair enough. Does it do this data mangling from boredom, malice, or ignorance? ;)
R2x1 (4628)
1259314 2012-02-19 23:08:00 "but (it) doesn't have to".
Fair enough. Does it do this data mangling from boredom, malice, or ignorance? ;)

Whether the user asks it to or not ;)
pcuser42 (130)
1259315 2012-02-20 07:23:00 If you upload them to SkyDrive via Windows Live Photo Gallery (at least) it shrinks them during the upload.
Yeah that's not ideal. If I ever need them because I've lost my HDD then I'll only have shrunken photos. Is shrunken a word?
pine-o-cleen (2955)
1259316 2012-02-20 07:58:00 Picasa gives you the option to choose the resolution you upload, including doing nothing to the size johcar (6283)
1259317 2012-02-20 08:30:00 Yeah that's not ideal. If I ever need them because I've lost my HDD then I'll only have shrunken photos. Is shrunken a word?

Read my post after that ;)

It also lets you download the originals :)
pcuser42 (130)
1259318 2012-02-20 09:01:00 Yeah, right. M$ "back-up solutions" have a bit of a tradition of getting the users back up; when they try to get the data back they find that said data is randomly dispersed about the universe. Post-it notes are quicker, more secure, and more reliable. ;) R2x1 (4628)
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