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I think the best way to hand that stuff off to your children is to wait until they get to a point where they hand off can happen, when they are adults, and then

I think the best way to hand that stuff off to your children is to wait until they get to a point where they hand off can happen, when they are adults, and then hand them a highly curated set of photos on a USB drive and let them do with it what they will. The key is in the curation though, it is unlikely that your child will want to sort through thousands of blurry, duplicate, or unrelated photos. 100 really good and special photos/videos are better than a mixed up mass of 5,000. If you are concerned with passing away before your son is of age, just make sure there are multiple backups, and the sign in information for anything that isn't local is communicated to his guardian.

gwbas1c 4y ago
> The key is in the curation though, it is unlikely that your child will want to sort through thousands of blurry, duplicate, or unrelated photos. 100 really good and special photos/videos are better than a mixed up mass of 5,000. Honestly, I would really enjoy sifting through 5,000 photos from my grandparents or parents. (Sometimes the best photos are the embarrassing or private photos, like the time my dad asked me to help back up photos and I saw my mother trying to recreate a famous album cover.) I appreciate the curation too.
- ngetchell 4y ago
  I think the act of developing film meant that photographs had a higher signal to noise/duplicate/blurry factor. It's trivial to take 100 pictures in an afternoon, with only 1-2 being worth saving.