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I am guessing I am telling you the obvious when I tell you to backup all meaningful pictures and videos into whatever your long-term storage solution is (aka SS

I am guessing I am telling you the obvious when I tell you to backup all meaningful pictures and videos into whatever your long-term storage solution is (aka SSD or Cloud) before the phone inevitably dies and becomes inaccessible, especially if the phone memory is encrypted with some weird proprietary algo where you will never get the data off of it even if you know the password. I found some old computers a while back, from the early 2000s. None of them booted. I couldn't get anything off even after pulling the HDs and connecting to them directly - everything was corrupted despite sitting in a fairly dry, clean, climate-controlled space.

derwiki 3y ago
My dad still has a 2001 era Inspiron that he keeps because of Microsoft Works. I am shocked that it still boots! Won’t connect to the internet for some reason, but it did connect to the LAN and WS_FTP helped me move old files to my laptop.
- tetris11 3y ago
  > Won’t connect to the internet for some reason Likely: time/date, and you will need to compile modern ssl and gnu tls. I've found that even if I'm doing a pure http request (no https), I can't fetch anything without a modern ssl/tls library. At least that's how it was on an old kindle
  - derwiki 3y ago
    That rings a bell :-)
dghughes 3y ago
> I am guessing I am telling you the obvious when I tell you to backup all meaningful pictures and videos My Dad died in 2021 and like the OP above I have his phone still connected to power and photos videos, calls etc. on it. What you say is correct but I haven't the courage to look at the photos yet. Videos will be especially hard much more real than a picture. But yes I have to act.
- nucleardog 3y ago
  Just in case you haven't thought of it--at least as far as photos/videos there are easy/straightforward generic options for copying them off without having to look. You can install something like Dropbox or Nextcloud and set them up to sync the entire photo album. Just checking the rough counts on either end should get you a decent indicator that you've got everything. (It's possible something gets missed but, trying to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good, it would certainly be a much safer position over where you are today.) As much as anything, I'm just trying to give you a nudge. I can only imagine how much it would compound the heartbreak to lose all of that. My sympathies for your loss.
  - InCityDreams 3y ago
    Uploading unseen photos may not necessarily be such a great idea.

derwiki 3y ago

My dad still has a 2001 era Inspiron that he keeps because of Microsoft Works. I am shocked that it still boots! Won’t connect to the internet for some reason, but it did connect to the LAN and WS_FTP helped me move old files to my laptop.

tetris11 3y ago
> Won’t connect to the internet for some reason Likely: time/date, and you will need to compile modern ssl and gnu tls. I've found that even if I'm doing a pure http request (no https), I can't fetch anything without a modern ssl/tls library. At least that's how it was on an old kindle
- derwiki 3y ago
  That rings a bell :-)

dghughes 3y ago

> I am guessing I am telling you the obvious when I tell you to backup all meaningful pictures and videos My Dad died in 2021 and like the OP above I have his phone still connected to power and photos videos, calls etc. on it. What you say is correct but I haven't the courage to look at the photos yet. Videos will be especially hard much more real than a picture. But yes I have to act.

nucleardog 3y ago
Just in case you haven't thought of it--at least as far as photos/videos there are easy/straightforward generic options for copying them off without having to look. You can install something like Dropbox or Nextcloud and set them up to sync the entire photo album. Just checking the rough counts on either end should get you a decent indicator that you've got everything. (It's possible something gets missed but, trying to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good, it would certainly be a much safer position over where you are today.) As much as anything, I'm just trying to give you a nudge. I can only imagine how much it would compound the heartbreak to lose all of that. My sympathies for your loss.
- InCityDreams 3y ago
  Uploading unseen photos may not necessarily be such a great idea.