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The bad: they might not look very good. ( See below. The good news: you’ll have all your social images in one place. Add your social media photos to the collection, if you like, but fair warning–any image from Facebook or Instagram will be very low resolution, because that’s what the Meta company does. Tag your faces, to help Mylio figure out who everyone is.

Once you’re in sync, you’ll need to take time to begin the organization process. In my case, I have so much media it took over a month. You need to “sync” everything from your library, which can take as long as a day, if you don’t have much media, or much longer.

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If you try to connect Mylio to a pre-existing drive that’s not chock full of room, you’ll probably run out space quickly.Ĭonnect the drives to Mylio, create “vaults” and be patient. Five TBs should be able to handle several years of shooting. I found these Seagate drives with 5 TB of space and they sell for just over $100. I recommend buying two brand new drives and using them as your connected backup. By having two drives, you’re covered in case one fails. (And it will. You’ll use them to create “vaults” which will automatically back up every photo and video you snap on your phone or camera. In order to make Mylio work for you, you’ll want two extra hard drives with lots and lots of room. In an era where we’re shooting more and more high resolution photos and videos, our collections are constantly growing, so let’s face it, we need all the help we can get. You’ll pay $99.99 a year for the features, and in the process of setting it up, you’ll have a stronger backup system than you had before. Fine print: make that connected hard drive backup, where you can access your images from wherever in the world you are, via the Mylio app. Because while yes, it’s online retrieval, it’s also traditional hard drive backup. Mylio is a different way of looking at online backup. Because now my photos and videos* are backed up and much safer than they were previously. I can live with a product for an extended period of time, and really get to know it.īut once I got through the growing pains, I appreciated that I went through the process. The nice thing about not working for a daily newspaper anymore is that I have the time to not have to make a snap judgement. Mylio was with us for October and November, and it took me awhile to post this, because, frankly, it took me awhile to get Mylio set up. But as always, I’ll give you my honest opinion. Full disclosure: Mylio has sponsored PhotowalksTV and this newsletter in order to reach the photo fans like you who read, watch and listen.