I use VeraCrypt for that (TrueCrypt’s successor) at. I suggest giving your survivors a copy of your current password, like on a sequestered regular recent backup of just your password vault (you make those, right?) on an encrypted drive with an “open in case of emergency” envelope with the encrypted thumb drive’s password (and a copy of the disk encryption software you used!). Otherwise you are SOL for your Gmail, ProtonMail, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Finsta, Meh.com and Mercatalyst account, bank, credit card, and all of your other online accounts. In comparison, Google doesn’t owe your survivors anything after your account lapses - not even access to your account - if you don’t set that up yourself. With Forever storage, it is more like an asset that you own and as such gets inherited like anything else you own. Basically you pay for “forever storage”, up front or in installments, and it is not like cloud storage that you rent with no guarantees your files won’t go away or lose them when you pass away or are otherwise incapacitated. The Forever storage optional feature integrated into the software is very interesting. Free trial only, paid version is $80 ($56 with CELEBRATEMAY20 code for 30% off). With a bonus for an option for long term (as in pass down to your kids) cloud storage/archiving:įorever Historian ( ). The paid version is $40, and does more kinds of file matching. The free version works fine for basic de-duping. It also helps to cull them, keeping the best ones, because do you really need 15 pictures of your kid’s 4th birthday party 20 years later of your kid opening each present when you don’t remember any of the kids or their parents names? 1 Going back, the thing that helps me organize them and refreshes my context when seeing them is the date they were taken. If all the pictures that day are related to an event, I will add that to the day’s folder name. The pictures are named after the day they were taken and a 2-digit sequence number with something about the pictures taken that day for context. The way that works for me to organize pictures is by year then by month then and day. Over 200,000 pictures and files were recovered, and after de-duping, down to about 1,500 or so individual unique pictures and files. My dad recently went into assisted living and his technique was to copy entire folder trees of pictures and files over and over with no real organization. ![]() ![]() I’ve moved a bunch to a dedicated drive (250GB SSD) on my media PC and share them via Plex.
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